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Soti Bagar Ko Kulo, 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 …	Contributors: Elicia Ratajczyk Created: Aug 10, 2016
Spread of ideas based on epidemiological models Resource: This is the case study linked to the model with the same name. The population dynamics underlying the diffusion of ideas hold many qualitative similarities to those involved in thespread of infections. In spite of much suggestive evidence this analogy is hardly ever …	Contributors: Saurabh Biswas Created: Oct 7, 2016
Stakenet Fishery Association at Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka Resource: Coastal lagoon ecosystem Location: Negombo Lagoon (r), Sri Lanka Negombo Lagoon (3,164 ha) is located on Sri Lanka's west coast -- about 30 km north of the capital Colombo. This study discusses a community-initiated common property regime in the …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Elicia Ratajczyk Created: Aug 10, 2016
Subedar Ko Kulo, Dhap Village, Thamalangtar Dhap Village Panchayat, Sinhupalchok District, Nepal Resource: Farmer-managed irrigation system (FMIS) Location: Dhap 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 …	Contributors: Elicia Ratajczyk Created: Aug 10, 2016
Subtle global bifurcation with dramatic ecological consequences in a simple population model Resource: NA Location: NA Numerous situations exist in which a consumer uses two different kinds of resources, one fixed, the other renewable, e.g., nesting resources and food resources. With an elementary modification of the …	Contributors: Jae Hoon David Yu Created: Aug 10, 2016
Synthetic Biology: The Registry of Standard Biological Parts Resource: Synthetic biological components Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Registry of Standard Biological Parts is maintained by the International Genetic Engineering Machine (iGEM) Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Registry contains genetic information in the form of synthetically created …	Contributors: Ute Brady, David Gillum Created: Aug 10, 2016
System representation template Resource: NA Location: NA The system representation template was created to provide the key verbs analysts should utilize when describing the strategic interactions between the elements in the robustness framework (RS, RU, PIP, PI). …	Contributors: olivier.barreteau, John M. Anderies, Bruno Bonte, Ute Brady Created: Aug 10, 2016
Takkapala communal irrigation system, Malino village, south Sulawesi, Indonesia Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Malino Village, South Sulawesi, Indonesia The Takkapala communal irrigation system was studied in the Malino village in Indonesia. The resource harvested is water for irrigation. Although an extensive description of the institutions in the Takkapala Communal …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang, XIN WANG Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tallo Chapleti Kulo, Sikharpur Village Panchayat, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal Resource: Farmer-managed irrigation system (FMIS) Location: Ward 9 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 …	Contributors: Elicia Ratajczyk Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tallo Jhankri Ko Kulo, Dubachaur Village Panchayat, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal Resource: Farmer-managed irrigation system (FMIS) Location: Ward 9, Keurani Khaire 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 …	Contributors: Elicia Ratajczyk Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tanowong Bwasao Irrigation Resource: Bwasao stream watershed. Location: Mountain Province, Philippines The case study of Tanowong bwasao irrigation is located in the mountain province of Philippines. The resource appropriated is water for irrigation from Tanowong Traditional Irrigation system. Prior to 1954, the Tanowong people relied …	Contributors: John M. Anderies, Kyungmin Kim, Andrea Robinson, Hoon Cheol Shin, Shui Yan Tang, Heather Turrentine Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tanowong Bwasao Irrigation II, Philippines Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Villages of Tanowong, Kadatayan, Nadatngan, and Madongo, Philippines This paper is an update on a prior case study about the Bwasao irrigation system (Case Nos. 38 and 39) analyzing Albert S. Bacdayan’s 1980 case study on the Tanowong …	Contributors: Ute Brady Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tanowong traditional irrigation system, Philippines Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Villages of Tanowong, Kadatayan, Nadatngan, and Madongo, Philippines The case study of Tanowong traditional irrigation is located in the mountain province of Philippines. The resource appropriated is water for irrigation from Tanowong Traditional Irrigation system. Prior to 1954, …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang Created: Aug 10, 2016
Taos valley acequias community-based irrigation system, Taos, New Mexico, USA Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Taos, New Mexico, USA Key findings: The Taos valley acequias have survived for several hundred years as a community-based irrigation system due to a mix of social and biophysical features. These include: A low-cost …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Michael Cox Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tarahumara Gentiles agriculture, Sierra Madres, northwest Mexico Resource: Terrestrial land and associated watershed Location: Sierra Madres, northwest Mexico The resource under consideration here is arable land. Arable land is a common pool resource in this case. On the dimensions of subtractability and excludability defined by Ostrom (2005), land …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Jacob Freeman Created: Aug 10, 2016
Tasucu Bay Coastal Fishery, Turkey Resource: Coastal marine ecosystem Location: Town of Tasucu, Mersin Province, Turkey The coastal fishery in Tasucu Bay is located near the small port town of Tasucu in Mersin Province, Turkey. The original case, which spans from 1976-1978, catalogues 140 fishermen and …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Md Hasibul Hasan, Edella Schlager Created: Aug 10, 2016
Teleconnected vulnerabilities of Mexican and Vietnamese coffee systems Resource: The global coffee market, local biodiversity and land Location: Veracruz, Mexico The case study of smallholder coffee producers’ vulnerability in Mexico and Vietnam was published in the journal Environmental Science and Policy in 2008. The authors Hallie Eakin, Alexanda Winkels and …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Ashwina Mahanti Created: Aug 10, 2016
Ten - Dakh Branch watercourse irrigation, Punjab province, Pakistan Resource: Watershed and associated topography Location: Punjab province, Pakistan This case was part of the original CPR database developed in the 1980s by Edella Schlager and Shui Yan Tang at Indiana University. The resource appropriated from Watercourse Ten-Dakh Branch …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Shui Yan Tang Created: Aug 10, 2016
The Alaskan Pollock Fishery, Bering Sea, USA Resource: Arctic marine ecosystem Location: Bering Sea, Alaska, USA The Alaskan Pollock fishery has been described as a management success, largery attributed to the adoption of ITQs, with allocations to catchers, processers, and to Alaskan communities. The processor-fisher relationship …	Contributors: Allain Barnett, Ute Brady Created: Aug 10, 2016
The Amphoe Choke Chai Water User Association, Isan region, northeastern Thailand Resource: Irrigation system Location: South of Nakhon Ratchasima city, Isan region, northeastern Thailand The resource appropriated from A Chaek in Amphoe Choke Chai is water for irrigation. This case is regarded as a failed institutional arrangement compared to other WUAs in the Lam Pra …	Contributors: John M. Anderies, Kyungmin Kim, Shui Yan Tang Created: Aug 10, 2016
The application of commons theory on marine resource management Resource: Marine ecosystem Location: Various coastal and open sea marine locations 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, …	Contributors: Ute Brady Created: Aug 10, 2016
The Cantareira Water Supply System and Local Efforts for Sustainable Agriculture in Nazaré Paulista, State of São Paulo, Brazil Resource: Atibainha Watershed Location: Nazaré Paulista, State of São Paulo, Brazil This case is based on field work done as part of ASU's Global Development Research Program in alignment with local organizations actively capacitating local small to medium-scale agriculturalists, and mitigating …	Contributors: Thomaz Carvalhaes Created: Dec 5, 2018
The coupled dynamics of human socio-economic choice and lake water system: the interaction of two sources of nonlinearity Resource: NA Location: NA Suzuki & Iwasa (2009) study a mathematical model for the coupled dynamics of human socio-economic choice and lake water system. In the model, many players choose one of the two …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Jae Hoon David Yu Created: Aug 10, 2016
The Emergence and Resilience of Self-organized Governance Resource: watershed Location: Pumpa Khola, Narayani, Central Region, Nepal This case focuses on the theory of self-organized governance. It is based on developing a formal mathematical model of generalized interactions in the CIS framework.	Contributors: John M. Anderies Created: Mar 12, 2020
The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use Resource: NA Location: NA The problem of extracting commonly owned renewable resources is examined within an evolutionary-game-theoretic framework. It is shown that cooperative behavior guided by norms of restraint and punishment may be stable …	Contributors: Ute Brady, Jae Hoon David Yu Created: Aug 10, 2016

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