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Oyster communities, Florida, USA | Case |
| The Florida oyster fishing communities are located on the Florida “panhandle” with approximately 300 kilometers of coastline on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited amount of historic data on the development of community based norms and institutions for managing the fishery over time and compares them to those used in the Louisiana oyster fishing community (see related cases below). No information is provided... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Oyster communities, Gulf of Mexico, Alabama, USA | Case |
| The Alabama oyster fishing communities are located on the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 100 kilometers of coastline. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited amount of historic data on the development of community based norms and institutions for managing the fishery over time and compares them to those used in the Louisiana oyster fishing community (see related cases below). No information is provided on the number of users involved in the fishery at... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Oyster communities, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USA | Case |
| The Louisiana oyster fishing communities are located on the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 400 kilometers of coastline in a straight line from the border of Texas on the west to the border of Mississippi on the east. The case study involves historic information on the development of community based norms and institutions and a legally closed tenure structured around oyster leaseholds in Louisiana, compared to other open-access community-based oyster fisheries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The case... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Oyster communities, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi, USA | Case |
| The Mississippi oyster fishing communities are located on the Gulf of Mexico with approximately 100 kilometers of coastline. The case study states that this is an open-access fishery but includes a limited amount of historic data on the development of community based norms and institutions for managing the fishery over time and compares them to those used in the Louisiana oyster fishing community (see related cases below). No information is provided on the number of users involved in the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Paradox of marine protected areas: suppression of fishing may cause species loss | Case |
| This is a placeholder case for the model for the same name. Please revise case information to reflect the case study represented in the model. | 09 Aug 2016 |
Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil | Case |
| This case was originally researched and compiled for the SES Library by Matt Cohen in 2013 for the Arizona State University course SOS 591: Applied Robustness Analysis in Social Ecological Systems. The resource appropriated is the city's municipal budget. Local laws enable a participatory process in which citizens influence budget allocations through collaborative deliberation. Citizens holding neighborhood-scale interests deliberate on allocations of the city-wide budget, a finite resource... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Parwara Van Panchayat Forest | Case |
| Parwara is located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, India and forests comprise broad-leaved species such as oak. Resources appropriated from the Parwara forests are timber, grass, and leaves. The authors Vishwa Ballabh and Katar Singh, first visited Parwara in 1988 to evaluate the factors that enabled collective action by the panchayat. Based on the initial assessment from a Social-Ecological Sytems (SES) perspective in 1988, the Panchayat was considered successful in managing... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Parwara Van Panchayat Forest: Social structure and exogenous drivers | Case |
| This paper is an extension of two prior case studies about the Parwara Van Panchayat (forest council):the 1988 Parwara Van Panchayat Forest which covered the status of this social-ecological system (SES) from approx. 1931 to 1985 (Case No. 34); andthe 2008 Parwara Van Panchayat Forest II which provided a SES update up to 2007 (Case No. 159).For purposes of this report, the SES study boundaries were extended beyond the Parwara village Van Panchayat to include an institutional analysis of various... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Parwara village Van Panchayat: Institutional change | Case |
| The main appropriated resources are grass, used mainly for cattle grazing and compost, and forest tress, used mostly for fuel wood and construction timber. Almost all of the total resource units appropriated in the Parwara Van Panchayat (VP) forest are officially regulated by the Parwara Van Panchayat Committee (VPC), timber and resin are regulated by the state Forest Department. The Nainital District Magistrate, and the Van Panchayat Inspector, who is employed by the state Revenue Department,... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Perupok Coastal Fishery, Malaysia | Case |
| Perupok is a fishing village in the Bachok district, located on the Kelantan coast of Malaysia. The original study, which was carried out in 1963, catalogues approximately 307 fishermen in the village; the main resource units are jewfish, herring, sea-bream, prawns, mackerel, and anchovy. The fishing community is well structured, fishing activities are well-planned based on the seasons, and the roles of fishing crew and dealers are well-defined. This case study is part of the original Common-... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Petty Harbour Cod Fishery, Newfoundland, Canada | Case |
| Petty Harbor is located in a town on the eastern shore of the Avalon Peninsula. The resource appropriated from Petty Harbour Cod Fishery is cod. The author examines the perception of the marine environment by fishers. He compared the fishers of Petty Harbour who remain close to shore and use traps and hand lines with fishers from St. Johns who travel further offshore and use long lines. He found that in general fishers have a selective perception of their environment and primarily focus on... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Pinagbayanan irrigation system, Laguna, Philippines | Case |
| The Pinagbayanan Irrigation System is located in Barrio Pinagbayanan, Laguna in Philippines. The resource appropriated related to the social dilemma is water for irrigation appropriated and distributed by two water pumps and canals that deliver water from the pumps to rice fields, and a gravity irrigation system managed by the National Irrigation Administration. The original case was reported in 1975. This case study is part of the original Common-Pool Resource (CPR) database. A summary of the... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Port Lameron - Pagesville Finfishery | Case |
| 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 the institutional boundaries are based on customary usage. The resource units appropriated include lobster and demersal fish. The fishermen cooperate to control access to and appropriation from the resource system. Inshore fishing (mixed finfish and lobster) is the economic mainstay. Pagesville fishers often... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Port Lameron - Pagesville Lobsterfishery | Case |
| 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 the institutional boundaries are based on customary usage. The resource units appropriated include lobster and demersal fish. The fishermen cooperate to control access to and appropriation from the resource system. Inshore fishing (mixed finfish and lobster) is the economic mainstay. Pagesville fishers often... | 09 Aug 2016 |
Port Lameron Lobster Fishery II, Nova Scotia, Canada | Case |
| 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, pollock, hake), swordfish, or tuna. The collapse of the Codfishery has been attributed to many issues, including scientific uncertainty, government policies to increase employment in the area, and subsidies to increase fishing capacity, and the inability of enforcement to stop foreign trawlers from... | 09 Aug 2016 |