Key Terms
Robustness (engineering) = "the maintenance of system performance either when subjected to external, unpredictable perturbations, or when there is uncertainty about the values of internal design parameters" (Carlson and Doyle 2002) (p. 1)
Resilience = "measures the amount of change or disruption that is required to transform the maintenance of a system from one set of mutually reinforcing processes and structures to a different set of processes and structures" (Holling 1973) (p. 1)
SES = "subset of social systems in which some of the interdependent relationships among humans are mediated through interactions with biophysical and non-human biological units (p. 3)
Social Capital = rules used by those governing, managing and using the system and those factors that reduce the transaction costs associated with monitoring and enforcement of rules (Ostrom and Ahn 2003)
External disturbances = 1) biophysical disruptions (affect resource and public infrastructure) & 2) socioeconomic changes (affect resource user and public infrastructure provider)
Internal disturbance = rapid reorganization of ecological or social system induced by ecological or social subsystems
Robustness = "the maintenance of some desired system characteristics despite flucturations in the behavior of its component parts or its environment" (Carson and Doyle 2002)
Robustness (engineering) = "the maintenance of system performance either when subjected to external, unpredictable perturbations, or when there is uncertainty about the values of internal design parameters" (Carlson and Doyle 2002) (p. 1)
Resilience = "measures the amount of change or disruption that is required to transform the maintenance of a system from one set of mutually reinforcing processes and structures to a different set of processes and structures" (Holling 1973) (p. 1)
SES = "subset of social systems in which some of the interdependent relationships among humans are mediated through interactions with biophysical and non-human biological units (p. 3)
Social Capital = rules used by those governing, managing and using the system and those factors that reduce the transaction costs associated with monitoring and enforcement of rules (Ostrom and Ahn 2003)
External disturbances = 1) biophysical disruptions (affect resource and public infrastructure) & 2) socioeconomic changes (affect resource user and public infrastructure provider)
Internal disturbance = rapid reorganization of ecological or social system induced by ecological or social subsystems
Robustness = "the maintenance of some desired system characteristics despite flucturations in the behavior of its component parts or its environment" (Carson and Doyle 2002)
What are the main objective(s) of the paper?
- What makes SESs robust?
- examine institutional configurations that affect interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers and public infrastructure
- identify potential vulnerabilities of SES to disturbances- illustrate problems caused by disruption in link
- relate findings to design principles developed for robust CPR institutions, "good starting point for development of design principles for more general SESs"
- innovative because proposes framework to address: 1) Resource, 2) Governance System, 3) Associated Infrastructure as a coupled system
What are the important results and conclusions?
- link between resource users and public infrastructure providers is a key variable affecting the robustness of SESs that has frequently been ignored in the past
Experimental design, statistical analyses or analytical approaches? Flaws?
- develop framework to study robustness of SES and posit broad design principles for robust SES
- Framework criteria
1) cooperation and potential for collective action must be maintained within the social system2) ecological systems are dynamic, as are the rules of the games that agents play amongst themselves
3) ecological systems can occupy multiple stable states and move rapidly between them
Paper outline:
- define area of interest and characterize "robustness"
- use framework to discuss several general themes
- apply it to specific cases
- suggest initial directions for future research
- To examine robustness you must ask ...
1) What is the relevant system?
2) What are the desired system characteristics?
3) When does the collapse of one part of a SES imply that the entire system loses robustness?
Assumptions made with models? Reasonable?
- "one approach to enhance the robustness of a SES would be to focus on governance that enhances the resilience of an ecosystem configuration that produces a desirable bundle of goods and services. The important point is to recognize both the designed and self-organizing components of a SES and to study how they interact." (p. 2)
- Key drivers:
1) strategic interactions between agents
2) rules that constrain actions of agents
3) collective-choice process to generate rules
- "Link 6 is rarely even addressed in most analyses of SESs because many analysts have ignored the active co-production of resource users themselves in the day-to-day operation and maintenance of a public infrastructure (but see Evans 1997)." Promotion of co-management
- operation and collective-choice levels must be analyzed together in order to assess robustness of SESs
- Both the social and ecological system must collapse before an SES is considered collapse
- an SES is robust if it prevents ecological systems from moving into "a new domain of attraction that cannot support a human population/cause long-term human suffering" by just switching to another resource to exploit
- "Just the introduction of money as a medium of exchange can, by itself, be an important disturbance" Kawika
- "When labor is primary medium of exchange, investment in public infrastructure is easy to monitor"
- Key drivers:
1) strategic interactions between agents
2) rules that constrain actions of agents
3) collective-choice process to generate rules
- "Link 6 is rarely even addressed in most analyses of SESs because many analysts have ignored the active co-production of resource users themselves in the day-to-day operation and maintenance of a public infrastructure (but see Evans 1997)." Promotion of co-management
- operation and collective-choice levels must be analyzed together in order to assess robustness of SESs
- Both the social and ecological system must collapse before an SES is considered collapse
- an SES is robust if it prevents ecological systems from moving into "a new domain of attraction that cannot support a human population/cause long-term human suffering" by just switching to another resource to exploit
- "Just the introduction of money as a medium of exchange can, by itself, be an important disturbance" Kawika
- "When labor is primary medium of exchange, investment in public infrastructure is easy to monitor"
Main conclusions supported by data? Why or why not?
Good References?
Meet stated objectives?
Number of times cited?
Impact on field?
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