Studying Power with the Social-Ecological System Framework

Epstein, Graham; Bennett, Abigail; Gruby, Rebecca L.; Acton, Leslie; Nenadović, Mateja

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8959-2_6

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“…The formal discussions at the official settings are one of the simple and obvious parameters, with certain limitations, of interests at certain contexts. Recent studies have focused more on discourses or governance and institutional settings at the policy implementations (Epstein, Bennett, Gruby, Acton, & Nenadovic, 2014;Ostrom, 2008). With these limitations and trends in mind, we analyze the official discussions at the municipal assembly with quantitative method.…”

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Analysis of Japanese Municipalities With Geopark, MAB, and GIAHS Certification

Kohsaka

Matsuoka

2015

Sage Open

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We analyzed the discussions of Japanese municipalities in their process for obtaining certifications for the Geoparks by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) by the UNESCO, and the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems (GIAHS) by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The official records at the municipality diet were analyzed in a quantitative manner from 2011 to 2013. As the first step, we analyzed the eight municipalities of Noto and Sado for the GIAHS, the cities Itoigawa and Hakusan for the Geopark, and Katsuyama Yamanouchi village from Nagano for the MAB. As individual examples, we analyzed City of Suzu with GIAHS, Itoigawa (Geopark), and Yamanouchi town (MAB) with the text-mining approach. For the GIAHS, it was clear that the larger municipalities with city status tended to discuss certification issues more frequently than the smaller towns and villages. Terms such as conservation and certification tended to be used with GIAHS at the Suzu City. The term brand was used with GIAHS and MAB but not for the Geopark. The findings using quantitative methods are at initial stage for analysis of municipality strategies and require further future research.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Analysis of Japanese Municipalities With Geopark, MAB, and GIAHS Certification

Kohsaka

Matsuoka

2015

Sage Open

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“…Such simple rules include those that mediate the effects of technology or market incentives. These findings suggest continued attention to case studies and case-comparisons that consider power dynamics, multiple-use resources, and factors that contribute to social cohesion (Steins and Edwards 1999a,b;Clement 2013;Epstein et al 2014;Barnett and Eakin 2015).…”

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“…Some studies have addressed this challenge by compiling and analysing databases of a large number of case-studies (e.g. Cox et al 2010;Gutierrez et al 2011;Epstein et al 2014). While these studies provide helpful general insights into CPR governance, they are insufficient to explain the processes and complex linkages that constitute a governance system.…”

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confidence: 99%

An iterative approach to case study analysis: insights from qualitative analysis of quantitative inconsistencies

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Large-N comparative studies have helped common pool resource scholars gain general insights into the factors that influence collective action and governance outcomes. However, these studies are often limited by missing data, and suffer from the methodological limitation that important information is lost when we reduce textual information to quantitative data. This study was motivated by nine case studies that appeared to be inconsistent with the expectation that the presence of Ostrom's Design Principles increases the like lihood of successful common pool resource governance. These cases highlight the limitations of coding and analysing large-N case studies. We examine two issues: 1) the challenge of missing data and 2) potential approaches that rely on context (which is often lost in the coding process) to address inconsistencies between empirical observations and theoretical predictions. For the latter, we conduct a post-hoc qualitative analysis of a large-N comparative study to explore 2 types of inconsistencies: 1) cases where evidence for nearly all design principles was found, but available evidence led to the assessment that the CPR system was unsuccessful and 2) cases where the CPR system was deemed successful despite finding limited or no evidence for design principles. We describe inherent challenges to large-N comparative analysis and to coding complex and dynamically changing common pool resource systems for the presence or absence of design principles and the determination of "success". Finally, we illustrate how, in some cases, our qualitative analysis revealed that the identity of absent design principles explained inconsistencies, and hence reconciled such apparent inconsistencies with theoretical predictions. This analysis demonstrates the value of combining quantitative An iterative approach to case study analysis 469 and qualitative analysis, and using mixed-methods approaches iteratively to build comprehensive methodological and theoretical approaches to understanding common pool resource governance in a dynamically changing context.

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“…power) to one of the IESD frameworks. Some articles made theoretical proposals (Epstein et al 2014;Whaley and Weatherhead 2014). Others adopted the approach for a few cases, thus, deviating from the meta-analysis approach of the IESD school (Clement 2010).…”

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Finding common ground between theories of collective action: the potential of analyses at a meso-scale

Faysse¹,

Mustapha²

2017

International Journal of the Commons

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Abstract:The theories of collective action relating to natural resource management and agricultural development are often considered to be polarized. The theories are divided into institutional economics with a focus on social dilemmas and sociology/anthropology. This article reviews the attempts to find common ground between the two groups. Several studies in sociology and anthropology have pointed out weaknesses in the approaches based on institutional economics. However, the criticisms have failed to trigger serious debate. Studies in each group have taken the initiative to "reach out" to the other, but so far the results have been limited. This article proposes an alternative approach to finding common ground between both groups. This involves focusing on the scales of validity of the research, i.e. the scale at which research results are considered valid. Many studies use or develop theoretical bases and build methodologies in order to obtain results that are deemed to be valid at a local or global scale. Other approaches use a meso-validity scale, e.g. one economic sector or one type of natural resource in a specific region. Some of these approaches organize a structured comparison between different cases of collective action and, at the same time, address the criticisms made by sociologists and anthropologists with regard to the approaches used in institutional economics. Research at a meso-validity scale can help establish common ground between the two main groups of theories concerned by collective action.

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Studying Power with the Social-Ecological System Framework

Cited by 26 publications

References 61 publications

Analysis of Japanese Municipalities With Geopark, MAB, and GIAHS Certification

Analysis of Japanese Municipalities With Geopark, MAB, and GIAHS Certification

An iterative approach to case study analysis: insights from qualitative analysis of quantitative inconsistencies

Finding common ground between theories of collective action: the potential of analyses at a meso-scale

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