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Case Study The Amphoe Choke Chai Water User Association, 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 Plerng Irrigation Project. The Lam Pra Plerng Irrigation Project was … -
Case Study The application of commons theory on marine resource management
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, this case was not included in the end. -
Case Study The Cantareira Water Supply System and Local Efforts for Sustainable Agriculture in 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 biodiversity and water shortages. Research focused on the municapity of … -
Case Study The coupled dynamics of human socio-economic choice and lake water system: the interaction of two sources of nonlinearity
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 options: a cooperative and costly option with low phosphorus discharge, … -
Case Study The Emergence and Resilience of Self-organized Governance
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. -
Case Study The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use
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 in a well-defined sense against invasion by narrowly self-interested behavior. … -
Case Study The Goulburn Broken Catchment irrigation system, northern Victoria, Australia
The GB catchment covers 2.1 million hectares in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Aboriginal people lived in the catchment for millennia before colonization around 1830. The upper, mountainous area of the catchment (900 000 ha) is more than 50% forested. … -
Case Study The Hohokam Cultural Sequence (Irrigation and Foraging), Sonoran Desert, greater Phoenix basin, Arizona, USA
The Hohokam is a Native American cilivilization that emerged and occupied the present day Phoenix Basin area and its outer bounds for a thousand years. The archeological records indicate that the Hohokam society evolved into a complex irrigation society and … -
Case Study The inevitability of surprise in agroecosystems
Many critical transformations of ecosystems contain advanced signals of their imminence, but it is also true that many critical transformations can be shown to contain no such signal, at least with the sorts of data normally available to field workers. … -
Case Study The Innovation Commons: The Nanotechnology Innovation Network, Phoenix, AZ
The nanotechnology innovation network of Metropolitan Phoenix ranks among the top thirty across US cities focused on nanotechnology development. The present case examines the structure of the innovation network, consisting of approximately 400 diverse organizations, between 2011 and 2012. The … -
Case Study The Irrigation System of Campo Montiel, La Mancha region, Spain
Campo de Montiel Irrigation system is based on an aquifer of 2500 km2, but only that only 3% of it was used for agriculture. Campo de Montiel is located in La Mancha Region, in Spain. The case study involves an analysis … -
Case Study The Irrigation System of La Mancha Oriental, La Mancha Region, Albacete and Cuenca provinces, Spain
The Mancha Oriental Irrigation system is one aquifer of La Mancha Region, located in Albacete and Cuenca provinces in Spain. The case study involves an analysis of the evolution of the system from 1975 to 2000. The extension of the land … -
Case Study The Irrigation System of Sol y Arena, Campo de Dalías, Almeria, Spain
The Sol y Arena Irrigation system is one of the six irrigation systems (the most irrigated one) of the agricultural area of Campo de Dalías, which is located in Almería, Spain. It encompasses a geographical area of 6,000 ha. The case … -
Case Study The Irrigation System of Sol y Poniente, Campo de Dalías, Almeria, Spain
The Sol y Poniente Irrigation system is one of the six irrigation systems of the agricultural area of Campo de Dalías, which is located in Almería, Spain. The case study involves an analysis of the evolution of the system in different … -
Case Study The irrigation system of the northwest Murcia Region (Spain): robustness of SES to the intrusion of new resource users
Farmers in the northwest Murcia Region (Spain) have used for centuries the water from springs to irrigate their lands. They are organized in irrigation communities adapted to cope with rainfall variability. This system was robust in terms of its use … -
Case Study The Kaset Samakee Water User Association, Isan region, northeastern Thailand
The Kaset Samkee water user association is a part of the The Lam Pra Plerng Irrigation Project, constructed by Thailand's Royal Irrigation Department (RID). RID organized four Water User Associations (WUAs) in the project area that are then divided into "chaeks" … -
Case Study The Tsembaga Maring swidden agriculture and animal husbandry, Simbai River Valley, Papua New Guinea
Tsembaga Maring are a group of horticulturists who live in the highlands of New Guinea. The main resource upon which they relied on is swidden agriculture. The Tsembaga also practiced animal husbandry - the main domesticated animal being pigs. The … -
Case Study The urban heat commons: vegetation cooling services in Metropolitan Phoenix
The case of urban vegetation cooling service at Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, USA is an addition to the original Common-Pool Resource (CPR) database. This case was created in 2013 by Yujia Zhang at Arizona State University. Metropolitan Phoenix is one of the … -
Case Study Tourism and Natural Infrastructure in Community de Agua Blanca, Puerto Lopez, Ecuador
Agua Blanca Community is located in the province of Manabí, in the municipality of Puerto López, Machalilla parish. The community, founded in 1930, is within the Machalilla National Park, and occupies an area of 10,500 hectares. It is made up … -
Case Study Tourists and traditional divers in a common fishing ground
Lee & Iwasa (2011) study socio-ecological models for a fishing ground open to tourists. On Jeju Island, Korea, women traditional divers called “Haenyeo” harvest resources in a common fishing ground. To investigate the impact of introducing tourists on the benefit …