A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management
By Michael E. Cox, Gwen Arnold, Sergio Villamayor Tomas. 2010
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In 1990, Elinor Ostrom proposed eight design principles, positing them to characterize robust institutions for managing common-pool resources such as forests or fisheries. Since then, many studies have explicitly or implicitly evaluated these design principles. We analyzed 91 such studies to evaluate the principles empirically and to consider what theoretical issues have arisen since their introduction. We found that the principles are well supported empirically and that several important theoretical issues warrant discussion. We provide a reformulation of the design principles, drawing from commonalities found in the studies.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Assessing community-based conservation projects: A systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes (2013, methodology): “This is important because some individual studies and reviews show positive associations between project outcomes and some measures of market integration [13,21,23], while others find that market integration can lead to greater resource extraction and ecological degradation [44,77,100,113].”
- Economics of Blockchain (2016, neutral): “The working hypothesis is that the structure of these rules is likely to be similar to the eight ‘design rules’ identified by Ostrom (1990) (Cox et al 2010).”
- Ostrom, Hardin and the Commons: A Critical Appreciation and a Revisionist View (2014, neutral): “First, Cox et al. (2010) defined the design principle of clear boundary rules in terms of community and resource boundaries.”
- The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “…environmental effects of social inequality (Andersson & Agrawal, 2011), perdurability of natural resources (Agrawal, 2001; Berkes et al., 1989; Cox et al., 2010), food security (Barham & Chitemi, 2009; Béné, Macfadyen, & Allison, 2007), irrigation effectiveness (Lam, 1999), institutional…”
- Between markets and hierarchies: The challenge of governing ecosystem services (2012, background): “To sum up, rules and rule-making autonomy and participation (that is, how rules are designed and enforced, and how they evolve over time) matter more than the property regime or the generic type of coordination between transacting parties (Banana et al., 2007; Chhatre and Agrawal, 2009; Cox et al., ”