Research governance across connected systems

SES Library brings together case studies, models, experiments, citations and coded research data about how communities govern shared resources. Search for a known topic, browse a collection or explore case studies by location. Learn how the library is organized.

Explore case studies by location

Use the interactive map to open case studies associated with a location. The browse page provides the same records without requiring a map.

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Browse all case studies in a text list

Explore the research collections

Choose the form of evidence that best fits your research question.

  • 266 case studies

    Case studies

    Compare governance arrangements, resource systems and outcomes in documented places.

  • 48 models and 0 experiments

    Models and experiments

    Browse quantitative modelsBrowse experiments

  • 384 citations

    Bibliography

    Trace the scholarship connected to SES Library cases, methods and models.

  • Two public research databases

    Coding databases

    Query published institutional-analysis data from the CPR and NIIS databases.

The development of this database has been supported by the US National Science Foundation grants BCS-0527744, SES-0645789 and SES-1137404.