A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas

“…Green, WI, USA, 6Department of Horticulture, NPM Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA The social-ecological system (SES) framework is a useful tool for analysis of complex resource systems operating at multiple spatial and temporal scales (Ostrom 2007, McGinnis and Ostrom 2014).”

“It is also coupled with broad discussions on institutional fit [33] and assessment approaches [3,13,14] that aim to contribute to more effective and adequate management and governance systems, in order to face the complexity of social-ecological systems.”

“…and empirical studies of CPR systems (e.g., Agrawal & Benson, 2011; Brooks et al. , 2013; Cox et al. , 2010; Gutiérrez, Hilborn, & Defeo, 2011; Ostrom, 2007); Robinson et al. , 2014), we focused on investigating three mechanisms by which a property regime intervention may lead to changes in…”

“This clearly underlines the element of ‘nature’ and of ‘adaptive cycles’ (Holling 2001) in this social-ecological system (Ostrom 2007).”

“In this respect, the SES framework—a heuristic framework to study interactions in complex human–ecological systems—was developed, allowing us to use a common language, and systematically analyze empirical settings [27,28].”

“…une organisation polycentrique et en grande partie auto-organisée de la gestion des ressources, ce qui signifie qu’elle bénéfi-cierait des différentes avantages mis en avant par la littérature sur la gouvernance adaptative de systèmes socio-écologiques (Dietz et al ., 2003 ; Ostrom, 2007 et 2008).”

“…design principles seemed suited for on-ground pest management, because they focus on both the local social and institutional processes as well as on how these are nested in and interact with higher hierarchical levels of governance (Armitage 2007; Ostrom 2007; Poteete et al. 2010).”

“Achieving this challenge is not easy; the design of a research framework to take these and other issues and phenomena into account should move beyond the propagation of a panacea or set of panaceas (e.g., Ostrom, 2007).”

“Last but not least, many nested interests or “systemic institutional inertia” resist transformative changes (Ostrom 2004, 2007).”

“However, these should not be seen as a panacea that can be applied in all contexts.(36,73) The use of such instruments requires well-functioning markets, secure property rights, an effective legal system, welldeveloped administrative capacity, political will and good governance—which are often, and to varying degrees,…”

“Referring to the research of Ostrom [45], Fig.”

“Indeed Ostrom herself turned to the issue shortly before her death (Hess & Ostrom, 2007).”

“Ostrom’s frameworks for institutional analysis (Ostrom, 2005) and socioecological systems (Ostrom, 2007) may have some similar components, as their ideas have been incorporated, for example, in the integrative actor-centered framework (IAC) (Feola & Binder, 2010).”

“…frameworks to explain relationships between components of forest restoration systems such as the IPBES Conceptual Framework (Díaz et al. 2015), the Socio-Ecological Systems framework (Ostrom 2007; McGinnis & Ostrom 2014), and Theories of Change (ToC) (Putz & Romero 2012; Sayer et al. 2017).”

“…animal welfare, and effects on dung beetle biodiversity in the pastures (Finch et al 2020), whereas a single disciplinary project may consider only one factor, and thus produce less valuable management suggestions that take into account the full range of potential costs and benefits (Ostrom 2007).”

“…and its governance system at a particular time and place and are embedded within larger (and smaller) socioeconomic, cultural, political, and ecological settings which give context to such complex and unpredictable interactions, outcomes, and historical (and evolving) conditions (Ostrom, 2007).”

“A simple, one-size-fits-all national policy response to environmental challenges is rarely appropriate (Ostrom 2007).”

“Reconciling context dependent features with common regional drivers and trends remains a challenge in sustainability science (Ostrom 2007, 2009), especially in regions with heterogeneous, contentious, and highly dynamic land-use change such as Latin America.”

“…typically been addressed in natural resource management, they can also be applied, to some extent, in urban contexts, since they can have both subtractive and non-subtractive characteristics (Hess and Ostrom, 2007) and in the case of urban commons they can be collectively managed (Foster, 2011).”

“…socio-ecological system along with resource use, context, interactions (such as the presence of self-organising activities, information sharing, and/or conflict) and outcomes (such as equity, accountability, and sustainability), and any other positive and negative externalities (Ostrom 2007; 2009).”

“However, studies (Fleacă, 2017; Ostrom, 2007, 2009, 2011) have found that a well-developed, inclusive planning process can overcome this obstacle, and despite the potential disconnect, strategic plans and other related policy documents continue to be important in the management of and shape…”

“…where there were similarities and differences between cities as a step towards a better understanding of P management options that may be transferrable among cities, as well as highlight a fuller range of opportunities and challenges facing urban P recycling as there are no panaceas (Ostrom 2007).”

“Several students voiced the opinion that modellers, in particular, must strike a balance between adequate process representation and parsimony (see Hawkins, 2004; Ostrom, 2007).”

“…no strict differentiation between scientific and managerial knowledge (the latter understood as being based on practical experience), and no clear criteria were formulated for the success and failure of resource management approaches as, for example, demanded by Acheson (2006) and Ostrom (2007).”

“Consequently, contextual variables include external settings (S), the resource system (RS), the governance system (GS), the resource units (RU), users’ attributes on the group (A) level, and social interactions (I) (Ostrom 2007; McGinnis 2011).”

“, changes in the interactions between the (human) societal and natural ecological systems [2].”

“Moreover, specific property regimes that prove viable and sustainable in one set of social-ecological circumstances may prove nonviable or unsustainable in another (Ostrom 2007).”

“21], which are likely to have unintended consequences [22, 23], and to rapidly implement a series of pragmatic steps building on existing efforts and”

“…specific conditions vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons (Hardin 1968), it is now understood that there are many ways for CPR users to avoid resource over-exploitation and subsequently its degradation or disappearance (Ostrom 1990, van Laerhoven and Ostrom 2007, Berge and van Laerhoven 2011).”

“These two sets of positive attributes were selected for the current study because they focused exclusively on forestry user groups, unlike more recent studies by Ostrom [3] and Agrawal [29], and were more detailed than other recent analyses of forestry user groups [7,27,28,30].”

“In addition, it can facilitate the identification and resolution of socio-ecological resilience issues raised by the adaptive capacity community (Folke et al., 2002; Ostrom, 2007).”

“Sustainability science builds on these prior efforts by advocating the integration of scientific understanding with local knowledge while privileging neither, and emphasizing the inherent dynamism of complex human and ecological systems (Ostrom 2007).”

“1Corresponding author; e-mail: dougwyu@gmail.com r 2010 The Author(s) 569 Journal compilation r 2010 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation mechanisms of governance to maximize the social robustness of our solutions (Ostrom 2007).”

“Furthermore, and this is the point emphasised by Ostrom (2007), nearly decomposable systems are also much easier for us to understand.”

“No one-size-fits-all approach can resolve the myriad governance challenges faced by MtSES (cf Ostrom 2007) or mitigate systemic political and socioeconomic arrangements that tend to disadvantage certain mountain peoples and drive environmental degradation.”

“Following this process of producing our conceptual model, in two subsequent meetings, the authors used the SESF as a diagnostic tool (Ostrom, 2007; Ostrom, 2009; McGinnis and Ostrom, 2014; Hinkel et al., 2015) to analyse how the interactions, outcomes, and feedbacks of the variables defined in the…”

“Integrative, or synthesised, frameworks run the risk of being either overly simplified to be applicable in any given context, or overly specified and hence inappropriate for general use (Ostrom 2007, Emerson et al. 2012).”

“From a scientific perspective, it is known that environmental governance deals with complex socialecological system interactions (Liu et al. 2007, Ostrom 2007, Bodin 2017).”

“Under the consideration that many ecosystem services (mainly the regulating services) are public goods, poorly recognised within the market domain, institutional analysis is a necessary complement to economic analysis to individuate weaknesses in natural resource governance (Ostrom 2007; Ostrom 2009).”

“Ostrom (2007, 2009) proposed a nested framework approach to identify small sets of subsystem variables relevant to particular outcomes.”

“Consequently, policy initiatives must recognize that there are no panaceas to ensure the sustainability of this socialecological system (Ostrom 2007).”

“Resilience scholars propose that the challenges of managing diversity, complexity, and uncertainty in SES can be met through the development of more inclusive processes and alternative or complementary governance models from government-driven ones (Ostrom 2007, Wallis et al. 2015).”

“Elinor Ostrom convincingly elaborated SES as guiding frameworks (Ostrom 2007, Ostrom 2009, McGinnis and Ostrom 2012) and initiated a new direction of further works on the synthesis of sustainability, resilience and SES (Xu, Marinova et al. 2014) up into strategic and operational spheres of…”

“, see [41–44]), fishers’ behavior literature [3,15,18], the World Values Survey and our previous fieldwork carried out in this community.”

“…CPRs, the literature increasingly emphasizes the need for adopting a general framework so that scholars working across disciplines can critically investigate complex socio-ecological systems (SES), where commons are studied and governance carried out (Ostrom 2007, 2009; McGinnis and Ostrom 2014).”

“The SES, joining highly complex natural and human systems, which are in turn composed of multiple subsystems, is especially complex and opaque and demands data that are frequently lacking.”

“Resilience and SES literature call for interdisciplinary studies, and provide initial frameworks to study SESs from a social science perspective (e.g., Anderies et al., 2004; Hunt et al, 2013; Ostrom, 2007;Walker et al., 2006).”

“Ostrom (2007) introduced a diagnostic approach to study social-ecological systems.”

“To organize our analysis, we translate Ostrom’s “diagnostic approach” for social-ecological systems (SES; Ostrom 2007; Ostrom and Cox 2010) into the context of sea-level rise adaptation.”

“…and others in scholarship related to complex adaptive systems and, after incorporating elements of Elinor Ostrom’s common-pool resource theory, evolved into an integrative concept for conceptualizing dynamics in linked social and ecological systems (Gunderson and Holling 2002; Ostrom 2007, 2009).”

“…a more general concern in the field of environmental social science, which is the need to develop a science of diagnosis that builds and tests contextualized generalizations and transcends the debate between universal generalizations and ideographic explanations (Ostrom 2007, Cox et al. 2016).”

“IP address: 207.241.231.108, on 26 Jun 2020 at 19:09:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at (Ostrom 2006) and “A Diagnostic Approach for Going beyond Panaceas” (Ostrom 2007), have perhaps been overlooked).”

“Based on ample empirical evidence and theories on the commons, Ostrom [36,41], Ostrom and Cox [38], and McGinnis [37] created a multilevel nested framework which enhances our understanding of the nonlinear, complex, cross-scalar and evolutionary dynamics of socio-ecological systems—the SES framework.”

“top-down versus bottom-up), and solutions will be context and community specific (Ostrom, 2007; Ostrom et al., 1999; Taylor and Van Grieken, 2015).”

“…of environmental processes and their dynamics in fl uence the nature of feedbacks from resource exploitation strategies and may favor or discourage cooperation, sensu the role of resource system and unit characteristics in Ostrom ’ s framework for common pool resource governance (e.g. Ostrom, 2007).”

“Ostrom (2007) established a framework for social-ecological systems: “analysis of how attributes of a resource system, the resource units generated by that, the users of that system, and the governance system jointly affect and are indirectly affected by interactions and resulting outcomes achieved…”