Making Ostrom’s framework applicable to characterise social ecological systems at the local level
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Author
Delgado Serrano, María del Mar
Ramos, Pablo
Publisher
The International Association for the Study of the CommonsDate
2015Subject
Common pool resourcesCommunity-based natural resources management
Sustainability
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Ostrom’s framework to analyse the sustainability of social-ecological
systems has attracted great interest in the last years. It was not conceived to
characterise systems, but its nature and structure make it very appealing to be used
with this objective. However, its use to characterise three social-ecological systems
where common-pool resource management is central created some methodological
struggles and difficulties for comparing outcomes. This paper aims to present
some adaptations developed for improving the framework’s comprehensiveness
and practical applicability at local level, such as a transdisciplinary description
of the second-level variables, the definition of a set of third-level variables to
facilitate and enrich the descriptions and additional guidelines for gathering the
information and planning data searching processes at local level. The whole
process of adapting and applying the framework was the result of collaboration
among scientists, and local researchers and stakeholders. The adapted framework
permitted a comprehensive and comparable characterisation of the socialecological
systems analysed and facilitated its use by the local communities.