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Case Studies of Social-Ecological-Technical Systems
266 case studies available
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Port Lameron Lobster Fishery II, Nova Scotia, Canada
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Port Lameron, Nova Scotia, Canada
Since this original case, much of the Atlantic Canadian fisheries have been reduced to a fraction of historical levels. In Port Lameron, very few harvesters fish for groundfish (cod, haddock, …
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Contributors:
Allain Barnett, Ute Brady
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Port Lameron - Pagesville Finfishery
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
The Pagesville Fishery of Port Lameron Harbor is located on the southern edge of Nova Scotia, Canada. The physical boundaries are consistent with the boundaries of islands and harbors while …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Port Lameron - Pagesville Lobsterfishery
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
The Pagesville Fishery of Port Lameron Harbor is located on the southern edge of Nova Scotia, Canada. The physical boundaries are consistent with the boundaries of islands and harbors while …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Port Phillip Bay Scallop Fishery
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Port Phillip Bay, southern Victoria, Australia
Port Phillip Bay is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia.The resource appropriated from Port Phillip Bay are scallops. In this case study, the authors describe the scallop fishery and …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Summer Cliff, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Pumpa Irrigation System, Central region, Nepal
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Pumpa Khola, Narayani, Central Region, Nepal
The Pumpa Irrigation System draws water from the Pumpa river to serve approximately 120 households. It is a "north-south" system and is in an area with relatively steep terrain. This …
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Contributors:
Allain Barnett, Ute Brady
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Quintana Roo lobster fishery, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Resource: Marine ecosystem
Location: Quintana Roo coastal region, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
The Quintana Roo lobster fisheries are located on the eastern (Caribbean) side of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and stretch along the nearly 900 km of coastline from the border …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Quintana Roo-Scalefish, Eastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Resource: Multispecies Fishery.
Location: Xcalak, Quintana Roo, Mexico
The Quintana Roo fishery is located on the Eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The nearly 900 km of coastline includes all of Mexico's Caribbean shore. The boundary …
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Contributors:
Victor Moreno Martinez, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Ranvahi forest community, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra, India
Resource: Forest ecosystem and associated watershed
Location: Ranvahi village, District of Gadchiroli, State of Maharashtra, India
The Ranvahi forest community is located approximately 25 km from the town of Kurkheda in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, India. It encompasses a geographical area of 924.43 ha of …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Regime shifts in a socio-ecological model of farmland abandonment
Resource: NA
Location: NA
Figueiredo & Pereira (2011) developed a mathematical model with two-way linked socio-ecological dynamics to study farmland abandonment and to understand the regimes shifts of this socio-ecological system. The model considers …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Jae Hoon David Yu
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Robustness and Resilience across Scales: Migration and Resource Degradation in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest
Resource: Terrestrial ecosystem
Location: Southwestern region, USA
Migration is arguably one of the most important processes that link ecological and social systems across scales. Humans (and other organisms) tend to move in pursuit of better resources (both …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Jae Hoon David Yu
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Rural coastal fishing community, south of Mombasa, Kenya
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: South of Mombasa, Kenya
The fishing community contained in this case study is located approximately 50 km south of the city of Mombasa on the coast of Kenya, outside of the Diani/Chale National Marine …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Cathy Rubinos
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Rural sokshing, Bhutan (I)
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Various forest communities, Bhutan
Following the introduction of the Forest Act of 1969 and the Forest and Nature Conservation Act of 1995, the forests of Bhutan are owned and managed by the state, and …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Elicia Ratajczyk
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Rusembilan Kembong Fishery, Thailand
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Village of Rusembilan, Pattani Province, Thailand
The fishing village of Rusembilan is situated on the shore of the Gulf of Thailand, about 3 and half miles from the provincial capital, Pattani. Fishing, which is largely seasonal, …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Sabangan Bato irrigation system, Panangpan, Sabangan Bato, and Bidbiday barrios, Galimuyod, Phillippines
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Panangpan, Sabangan Bato, and Bidbiday barrios, Galimuyod, Ilocos Sur Province, Philippines
The farms served by the Sabangan Bato Irrigation System are located in the adjoining Barrios of Panangpan, Sabangan Bato, and Bidbiday of the town of Galimuyod in the Ilocos Sur …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang, Prashamsa Thapa
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Sabi Sand Game Preserve, South Africa
Resource: Terrestrial land and associated watershed
Location: Sabi Sand Game Preserve, South Africa
This case was part of a study to determine whether the institutional design principles of Ostrom were, in fact, related to "governance success" by Cox et al. In that analysis, …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Saebah communal irrigation system
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Cemplang Village, West Java, Indonesia
The Saebah communal system of irrigation was studied in the Cemplang village of West Java in Indonesia. The resource appropriated from Saebah Communal System is water for irrigation. The irrigation …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Popi Irawan, Shui Yan Tang
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Sananeri Tank irrigation system, India
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Tirunelveli District, India
The resource appropriated from Sananeri Tank is water for irrigation. The resource discussed in this study includes a tank and the channels that divert water to the field. The author …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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San Martin Ocotlán community forest management, Oaxaca, Mexico
Resource: Forest ecosystem and associated watershed
Location: San Martin Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico
The San Martin Ocotlán forest community encompasses a total of six settlements located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, of which San Martin Ocotlán is the largest. The community has …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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San Pedro Fishery, Belize
Resource: Multispecies Coastal Fishery.
Location: Ambergris Cay, Belize
San Pedro, Belize is an island village of approximately 1,200 residents in 1979. Located off the coast of Belize in a strategic place on Ambergris Cay it is …
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Contributors:
John M. Anderies, Cesar Paul Montalvo Clavijo, Edella Schlager
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Semi-urban sokshing, Bhutan (II)
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Various forest communities, Bhutan
Following the introduction of the Forest Act of 1969 and the Forest and Nature Conservation Act of 1995, the forests of Bhutan are owned and managed by the state, and …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Elicia Ratajczyk
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Shellfish, Wadden Sea, The Netherlands
Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem
Location: Wadden Sea, The Netherlands
The Wadden Sea is a network of tidal channels, sandbars, mudflats, salt marshes and dune islands covering approximately 9000 km2 located at the northwest corner of the Netherlands along the …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Cathy Rubinos
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Silag-Butir Irrigation System, Barrios Pacang, Silag, Butir, and Cabaruan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Barrios Pacang, Silag, Butir, and Cabaruan, in Ilocos Sur, Philippines
In the case of the Silag-Butir Irrigation System, ricefields are located in the adjoining Barrios of Silag, Butir, Pacang and Cabaruan (between 1.5 km and 4 km off Santa Maria …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Thomaz Carvalhaes, Shui Yan Tang
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Silean Banua irrigation system, Lintong ni Huta, Balige subdistrict, Indonesia
Resource: Watershed and associated topography
Location: Lintong ni Huta, Balige subdistrict, Indonesia
Silean Banua Irrigation system is located in Lintong ni Huta, The subdistrict of Balige in Indonesia.The resource appropriated related to the social dilemma is water for irrigation The original case …
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Contributors:
Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Siran Ko Kulo (a), Thamalangtar Dhap Village Panchayat, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal
Resource: Farmer-managed irrigation system (FMIS)
Location: Lekhark Tar Village
This case is part of the original Nepal Irrigation Institutions and Systems (NIIS) database developed in the 1980's by a team of researchers under the direction of Dr. Elinor Ostrom …
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Contributors:
Elicia Ratajczyk
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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Siran Ko Kulo (c), Baguwa, Sikharpur Village Panchayat, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal
Resource: Farmer-managed irrigation system (FMIS)
Location: Baguwa Village
This case is part of the original Nepal Irrigation Institutions and Systems (NIIS) database developed in the 1980's by a team of researchers under the direction of Dr. Elinor Ostrom …
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Contributors:
Elicia Ratajczyk
Created: Aug 10, 2016
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