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A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
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The articles in this special feature challenge the presumption that scholars can make simple, predictive models of social–ecological systems (SESs) and deduce universal solutions, panaceas, to problems of overuse or destruction of resources. Moving beyond panaceas to develop cumulative capacities to diagnose the problems and potentialities of linked SESs requires serious study of complex, multivariable, nonlinear, cross-scale, and changing systems. Many variables have been identified by researchers as affecting the patterns of interactions and outcomes observed in empirical studies of SESs. A step toward developing a diagnostic method is taken by organizing these variables in a nested, multitier framework. The framework enables scholars to organize analyses of how attributes of ( i ) a resource system (e.g., fishery, lake, grazing area), ( ii ) the resource units generated by that system (e.g., fish, water, fodder), ( iii ) the users of that system, and ( iv ) the governance system jointly affect and are indirectly affected by interactions and resulting outcomes achieved at a particular time and place. The framework also enables us to organize how these attributes may affect and be affected by larger socioeconomic, political, and ecological settings in which they are embedded, as well as smaller ones. The framework is intended to be a step toward building a strong interdisciplinary science of complex, multilevel systems that will enable future diagnosticians to match governance arrangements to specific problems embedded in a social–ecological context.
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“The collection and evaluation of evidence in our approach is organized according to modes of accumulation identified by the CEQ (1997), including those such as nonlinear and cross-boundary effects that are of widely recognized importance in complex social-ecological systems like the salmon fisheries of the Pacific Northwest (Ostrom 2007).”
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“The concept of near decomposability has been extended to the analysis of natural resource systems, which are typically conceived as having multiple levels of subsystems that function independently in many respects but are also functionally linked with higher-level and lower-level subsystems within the larger natural resource system (see E. Ostrom, 2007).”
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“2) Health of Social-Ecological Systems: complex humanenvironment systems are best defined as coupled socialecological systems (64, 65).”
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“…considerable time frames through comanagement arrangements and processes of social learning; and (3) avoid undermining the effectiveness of mentioned nested ecosystem governance structures by imposing top-down regulations with poor understanding of local social-ecological contexts (Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundBeyond noise mitigation: managing soundscapes as common-pool resources
Dumyahn, S. L., & Pijanowski, B. C. (2011) · Landscape Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10980-011-9637-8 · Cited by 43
“While CPR theory traditionally has a human-centered focus, the Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework developed by Ostrom (2007) incorporates biophysical elements and the related ecosystem services, as well.”
BackgroundBlanco, E. (2011) · doi:10.1007/s11077-010-9121-3 · Cited by 47
“In the light of this evidence, the paper applies the SES framework ( Ostrom 2007, 2009 )t o voluntary environmental initiatives by tourism firms as presented in UNWTO (2002) and UNEP (1998) to compare results with previous findings on extractive uses of CPR.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialBinder, C. R., Mühlemeier, S., & Wyss, R. (2017) · Energies · doi:10.3390/en10010036 · Cited by 48
Examining the evidence base for forest conservation interventions
Puri, J., Nath, M. S., Bhatia, R., & Glew, L. (2017) · doi:10.23846/egm0004 · Cited by 47
Response assemblages and their socioecological fit
Briassoulis, H. (2017) · doi:10.1177/2043820617720079 · Cited by 46
“The present discussion concerns the regional level, which has long been considered as the most relevant for human–environment studies and sustainable development decision-making (Folke et al., 2007; Hardy and Lloyd, 1994; Lebel et al., 2013; Ostrom, 2007).”
BackgroundInfluentialBan, N. C., Evans, L. S., Nenadović, M., & Schoon, M. (2015) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-07857-200402 · Cited by 50
“Second, our analysis indicates the importance of external drivers to the stability and proper functioning of SESs, even at the large spatial scale of GBRMP. External drivers such as land-based pollution, coastal development, climate change, and storms cannot be readily managed by MPA managers.”
BackgroundInfluentialAsbjornsen, H., Mayer, A., Jones, K. W., Selfa, T., Sáenz, L., Kolka, R., & Halvorsen, K. E. (2015) · BioScience · doi:10.1093/biosci/biv051 · Cited by 46
“Our PWS–WS framework (figure 2) builds on and expands two existing analytical frameworks: the driver–pressure– state-impact–response framework (DPSIR; Carr et al. 2007, Svarstad et al. 2008) and the social–ecological systems framework (SESF; Ostrom 2007, 2009S).”
Cole, D. H., Epstein, G., & McGinnis, M. D. (2014) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2361177 · Cited by 46
“The specific mode of argument used by Ostrom (2007) to make this point, however, may have a similarly narrowing effect on future analysts.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialTwo enduring lessons from Elinor Ostrom
Frischmann, B. M. (2013) · Journal of Institutional Economics · doi:10.1017/s1744137413000106 · Cited by 46
“For example, as reported in Hayes and Ostrom (2005), Ostrom and colleagues”
InfluentialSocial–ecological resilience and environmental education: synopsis, application, implications
Plummer, R. (2010) · Environmental Education Research · doi:10.1080/13504622.2010.505423 · Cited by 40
“2002 ; Ostrom 2007 , 2009b ), and cultivating insights regarding navigating transformations and strategies for adaptive governance (eg, Berkes, Colding, and Folke 2003 ; Folke et al.”
BackgroundA governance perspective on the large marine ecosystem approach
Mahon, R., Fanning, L., & McConney, P. (2009) · doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.07.013 · Cited by 46
“These developments in natural resource governance are broadening and deepening the ways in which the topic is treated [12].”
BackgroundConsiderations in Representing Human Individuals in Social-Ecological Models
Manfredo, M. J., Teel, T. L., Gavin, M. C., & Fulton, D. C. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2_7 · Cited by 43
An, K., Wang, C., & Cai, W. (2023) · Structural Change and Economic Dynamics · doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.001 · Cited by 45
Adaptation to climate change in coastal communities: findings from seven sites on four continents
Berman, M., Baztan, J., Kofinas, G. P., Vanderlinden, J., Chouinard, O., Huctin, J.-M., Kane, A., Mazé, C., Владимировна, Н. И., & Thomson, K. T. (2019) · Climatic Change · doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02571-x · Cited by 70
“Understanding complex cross-scale interactions helps identify why the local institutions succeeded in some sites but not in others (Young 2011; Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundAarnoudse, E., Closas, A., & Lefore, N. (2018) · doi:10.5337/2018.210 · Cited by 45
“The framework is based on previous studies and contains six broad categories used to analyze any kind of common-pool resource management (Ostrom 2007).”
MethodTourism destinations as multiplicities: The view from Assemblage Thinking
Briassoulis, H. (2017) · doi:10.1002/jtr.2113 · Cited by 45
Hashemi, S. M., Bagheri, A., & Marshall, N. (2015) · Environment Development and Sustainability · doi:10.1007/s10668-015-9721-3 · Cited by 35
“, water(7)) they depend on and govern (Anderies et al. 2004; Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundUnderstanding Weed Resistance as a Wicked Problem to Improve Weed Management Decisions
Jussaume, R. A., & Ervin, D. E. (2016) · Weed Science · doi:10.1614/ws-d-15-00131.1 · Cited by 50
“Two design principles for effective common pool resource management are broad participation by resource appropriators and a monitoring system accountable to those appropriators (Ostrom et al. 2012).”
BackgroundZaehringer, J. G., Hett, C., Ramamonjisoa, B., & Messerli, P. (2016) · Applied Geography · doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.12.009 · Cited by 44
“, 2009) leading to highly context-dependent outcomes (Ostrom, 2007; Rindfuss et al., 2007).”
BackgroundEffects of observability and complexity on farmers’ adoption of environmental practices
McCann, L. M. J., Gedikoğlu, H., Broz, B., Lory, J. A., & Massey, R. (2014) · Journal of Environmental Planning and Management · doi:10.1080/09640568.2014.924911 · Cited by 42
“Ostrom (2007) indicates that distinctive markings can facilitate the development of more sustainable resource management systems.”
BackgroundYu, D. J. H., Anderies, J. M., Lee, D., & Pérez, I. (2014) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-06135-190202 · Cited by 37
“One way SESs cope with change is through transformative change, a process that occurs when ecological, economic, or social structures make the existing system untenable and a fundamentally new system is created in response (Walker et al. 2004, Folke et al. 2010).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialPerceptions matter: how fishermen's perceptions affect trends of sustainability in Indian fisheries
Karnad, D., Gangal, M., & Karanth, K. K. (2013) · Oryx · doi:10.1017/s0030605312001251 · Cited by 59
“Local participation in fisheries management predicates understanding and building on the existing trends and patterns of resource use (St. Martin, 2001; Chan et al., 2007; Ostrom, 2007).”
BackgroundConflict resolution through ecosystem-based management: the case of Swedish moose management
Sandström, C., DiGasper, S. W., & Öhman, K. (2013) · doi:10.18352/ijc.349 · Cited by 45
“Characteristics of both the resource systems (in this case forests and moose populations) and specific resource units (i.e. tree stands/trees and moose populations) are critical context variables that affect the interactions of key actors in our case (Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundInfluentialArchetypes of Adaptation to Climate Change
Eisenack, K. (2012) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203123195-17 · Cited by 35
“Institutional design principles meant to be generic can only reach their objective if they are formulated in a very abstract way (Schachhuber 2004) or over-simplify the conditions (Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundExperiments in Environment and Development
Cárdenas, J.-C. (2009) · Annual Review of Resource Economics · doi:10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144056 · Cited by 42
Eriksson, H., Adhuri, D., Adrianto, L., Andrew, N., Apriliani, T., Daw, T., Evans, L., Garcés, L., Kamanyi, E., Mwaipopo, R., et al. (2016) · doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.11.005 · Cited by 45
Advances in understanding the evolution of institutions in complex social-ecological systems
Epstein, G., Morrison, T. H., Lien, A. M., Gurney, G. G., Cole, D. H., Delaroche, M., Villamayor‐Tomás, S., Ban, N. C., & Cox, M. E. (2020) · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2020.06.002 · Cited by 54
Communal governance, equity and payment for ecosystem services
Hayes, T., & Murtinho, F. (2018) · Land Use Policy · doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.001 · Cited by 44
The role of institutions in community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
Ntuli, H., & Muchapondwa, E. (2018) · doi:10.18352/ijc.803 · Cited by 44
“…System (HES) framework (Scholz and Binder 2004; Scholz et al. 2011), the Material and Energy Flow Analysis (MEFA) framework (Haberl et al. 2004; Brunner and Rechberger 2005), the SES framework (Ostrom 2007, 2009) and the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (Scoones 1998; Ashley and Carney 1999).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialEcología, tecnología e innovación para la sustentabilidad: retos y perspectivas en México
Gavito, M. E., van der Wal, H., Aldasoro, E. M., Ayala‐Orozco, B., Aguiar, A. A. B., Cach‐Pérez, M. J., Casas-Fernández, A., Fuentes, A., González-Esquivel, C. E., Jaramillo-López, P. F., et al. (2017) · Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad · doi:10.1016/j.rmb.2017.09.001 · Cited by 60
Diagnosing water security in the rural North with an environmental security framework.
Penn, H., Loring, P., & Schnabel, W. (2017) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.04.088 · Cited by 44
Social-ecological enabling conditions for payments for ecosystem services
Huber‐Stearns, H., Bennett, D. E., Posner, S. M., Richards, R. C., Fair, J. H., Cousins, S. J. M., & Romulo, C. L. (2017) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-08979-220118 · Cited by 58
“…is an opportunity to better connect these diverse conversations through an integration of language and a synthetic theoretical framework, such as the social-ecological systems (SES) framework developed by Ostrom and colleagues (Ostrom 2007, 2009, Bennett and Gosnell 2014, McGinnis and Ostrom 2014).”
BackgroundBarreteau, O., Giband, D., Schoon, M., Cerceau, J., DeClerck, F., Ghiotti, S., James, T., Masterson, V. A., Mathevet, R., Rode, S., et al. (2016) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-08834-210442 · Cited by 85
Barrow, E., Kamugisha-Ruhombe, J., Nhantumbo, I., Oyono, R., & Savadogo, M. (2016) · doi:10.1080/14728028.2016.1159999 · Cited by 44
“Neither secure rights nor decentralization are a panacea (Ostrom 2007) for sustainable forest management or improved livelihoods.”
BackgroundThiel, A., Mukhtarov, F., & Zikos, D. (2015) · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.018 · Cited by 44
Adaptive capacity in a Chilean context: a questionable model for Latin America
Clarvis, M. H., & Allan, A. (2014) · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.10.014 · Cited by 44
Hughes, S. M., & Pincetl, S. (2013) · Environment and Planning C Government and Policy · doi:10.1068/c1210 · Cited by 45
“social features of a policy system (Brondizio et al, 2009; Ostrom, 2007).”
BackgroundMiller, K., & Belton, V. (2014) · Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change · doi:10.1007/s11027-013-9537-0 · Cited by 44
“The governance arrangements in place will determine lines of authority, rights and responsibilities, and the extent of coordination across these different levels of decisionmaking (Ostrom 2007; Meinzen-Dick 2007).”
Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems
Kline, J. D., White, E. M., Fischer, A. P., Steen-Adams, M. M., Charnley, S., Olsen, C. S., Spies, T. A., & Bailey, J. D. (2017) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-09329-220325 · Cited by 43
The Multiple Facets of Corporate Purpose: An Analytical Typology
Besharov, M. L., & Mitzinneck, B. (2023) · Strategy Science · doi:10.1287/stsc.2023.0186 · Cited by 43
Zang, Y., Yang, Y., & Liu, Y. (2021) · Land Use Policy · doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105696 · Cited by 47
He, J., Martin, A., Lang, R., & Gross-Camp, N. (2021) · World Development · doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105450 · Cited by 43
“As forests managed by local communities are regarded as common-pool resources 4 , literature has been largely influenced by Ostrom’s “Eight Design Principles” 5 based on the theory of institutional economics, whereas scholars attempt to explore factors that influence the building of institutions 6 for achieving collec…”
BackgroundHarihar, A., Veríssimo, D., & MacMillan, D. C. (2015) · Global Environmental Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.05.004 · Cited by 44
“Finally, our research supports the adoption of a socio-ecological approach to conservation research and policy development at a landscape scale, where effective actions have to be appropriately embedded in the complex web of social, political, economic and ecological processes and their interactions (Ban et al., 2013;…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialA review of decision-support models for adaptation to climate change in the context of development
Nay, J. J., Abkowitz, M., Chu, E. K., Gallagher, D. B., & Wright, H. (2014) · Climate and Development · doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.912196 · Cited by 42
“As Ostrom (2007) argued, there are no panaceas for predicting or governing social–ecological systems.”
Backgroundde la Torre‐Castro, M. (2012) · Coastal Management · doi:10.1080/08920753.2012.727738 · Cited by 47
“Awareness about the limits of design, governability and the idealization of governance as a panacea for management enhancement is needed (Young 2007; Ostrom 2007; Jentoft 2007).”
Addressing the Issues: The Choice of Environmental Conflict-Resolution Venues in the United States
Heikkila, T., & Schlager, E. C. (2012) · doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00588.x · Cited by 43
Governance, polycentricity and the global nitrogen and phosphorus cycles
Ahlström, H., & Cornell, S. (2017) · Environmental Science & Policy · doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.005 · Cited by 48
“However, ‘top-down’ natural resource management institutions are often not well suited for local social and ecological realities, while ‘bottom up’ institutions may be blind to the complex social-ecological interactions that characterize large-scale environmental systems (Ostrom 2007).”
BackgroundA Sustainability Agenda for Tropical Marine Science
Partelow, S., Schlüter, A., von Wehrden, H., Jänig, M., & Senff, P. (2017) · Conservation Letters · doi:10.1111/conl.12351 · Cited by 40
Avenues of archetype analysis: roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research
Eisenack, K., Oberlack, C., & Sietz, D. (2021) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-12484-260231 · Cited by 42
“The Social-Ecological Systems framework (SES; Ostrom 2009, McGinnis and Ostrom 2014) brings different levels of abstraction (prop.”
BackgroundEales, J. F., Bethel, A. C., Fullam, J., Olmesdahl, S., Wulandari, P., & Garside, R. (2021) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106397 · Cited by 62
Metadata
- Authors
- Ostrom, E.
- Affiliations
- Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University, 408 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 513 North Park, Bloomington, IN 47408; and Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2007-09-25
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 39
- Pages
- 15181-15187
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC2000497
- OpenAlex
- W2071962320
- Cited by
- 2,728
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 60.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Coastal and Marine Management
- Keywords
- social-ecological systems, panacea, diagnostic framework, multilevel systems, governance arrangements, resource utilization (natural resources), nonlinear interactions, cross-scale analysis, resource degradation, interdisciplinary research, fisheries, lake ecosystems, grazing systems
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Health, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Pollution, Humans, Models, Biological, Public Policy, Social Environment, Ecosystem
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