Publications

Drivers of compliance monitoring in forest commons
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The long-term expansion and recession of human populations
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Institutional dynamics impact the response of urban socio-hydrologic systems to supply challenges
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Identifying Conditions that Support the Provision of High-Quality and Affordable Urban Drinking Water in the US
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Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process
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Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions
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Connecting human behaviour, meaning and nature
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Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis
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Response diversity as a sustainability strategy
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Infrastructure for Sustainability
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Infrastructure and the energy use of human polities
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Environmental change and ecosystem functioning drive transitions in social-ecological systems: A stylized modelling approach
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A modeling framework for World-Earth system resilience: Exploring social inequality and Earth system tipping points
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Sustainability transitions in urban water management
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Assessing sustainability through the Institutional Grammar of urban water systems
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Conceptualizing World-Earth System resilience: Exploring transformation pathways towards a safe and just operating space for humanity
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Understanding the effects of institutional diversity on irrigation systems dynamics
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Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems
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Harnessing the benefits of diversity to address socio-environmental governance challenges
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Governance in the face of extreme events: lessons from evolutionary processes for structuring interventions, and the need to go beyond
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Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts
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WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies
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Radiocarbon data may support a Malthus-Boserup model of hunter-gatherer population expansion
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Long-term transients help explain regime shifts in consumer-renewable resource systems
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Locusts and People: Integrating the Social Sciences in Sustainable Locust Management
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Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks
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Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
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Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda
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Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond
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Drivers of compliance monitoring in forest commons
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Urbanization, Migration, and Adaptation to Climate Change
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Transfers of vulnerability through adaptation plan implementation: an analysis based on networks of feedback control loops
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The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density
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The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems
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Sustaining Coupled Irrigation Infrastructures: Multiple Instruments for Multiple Dilemmas
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Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene
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Modeling interdependent water uses at the regional scale to engage stakeholders and enhance resilience in Central Arizona
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Integrating collapse theories to understand socio-ecological systems resilience
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How do resource mobility and group size affect institutional arrangements for rule enforcement? A qualitative comparative analysis of fishing groups in South Korea
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Exploring non-linear transition pathways in social-ecological systems
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An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere
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Agricultural Water Governance in the Desert: Shifting Risks in Central Arizona
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Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda
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Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship
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Sustainable landscapes and landscape sustainability: A tale of two concepts
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Sostenibilidad de los Bienes Comunes
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Should I stay or should I go? The emergence of partitioned land use among human foragers
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Resilience in social-ecological systems: identifying stable and unstable equilibria with agent-based models
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Refining the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems Framework for comparative analysis of coastal system adaptation to global change
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Potential feedbacks between loss of biosphere integrity and climate change
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Potential feedback between loss of biospheric integrity and climate change
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Knowledge infrastructure and safe operating spaces in social--ecological systems
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Highways as coupled infrastructure systems: an integrated approach to address sustainability challenges
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Governance principles for robust and resilient coastal systems in the face of global change
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Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
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A multiscale analysis of social-ecological system robustness and vulnerability in Cornwall, UK
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A more dynamic understanding of human behaviour for the Anthropocene
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The role of stakeholder perceptions and institutions for marine reserve efficacy in the Midriff Islands Region, Gulf of California, Mexico
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Synchronization of energy consumption by human societies throughout the Holocene
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Linking resilience and robustness and uncovering their trade-offs in coupled infrastructure systems
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How does knowledge infrastructure mobilization influence the safe operating space of regulated exploited ecosystems?
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Empathy, place and identity interactions for sustainability
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Analytically tractable climate--carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing
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Adaptive pathways and coupled infrastructure: seven centuries of adaptation to water risk and the production of vulnerability in Mexico City
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A Conceptual Framework for Heuristic Progress in Exploring Management Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Adaptation of Coastal Areas
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Strategic behaviors and governance challenges in social-ecological systems
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On our rapidly shrinking capacity to comply with the planetary boundaries on climate change
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Nonequilibrium Ecology and Resilience Theory
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Fragility of the provision of local public goods to private and collective risks
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Social norms as solutions
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Learning for resilience-based management: Generating hypotheses from a behavioral study
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Institutions and the performance of Coupled Infrastructure Systems
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Food security in the face of climate change: Adaptive capacity of small-scale social-ecological systems to environmental variability
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Explaining Success and Failure in the Commons: The Configural Nature of Ostrom's Institutional Design Principles
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Cognitive and institutional influences on farmers' adaptive capacity: insights into barriers and opportunities for transformative change in central Arizona
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Challenges and opportunities in coding the commons: problems, procedures, and potential solutions in large-N comparative case studies
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Building resilient pathways to transformation when ``no one is in charge'': Insights from Australia's Murray-Darling Basin
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An iterative approach to case study analysis: insights from qualitative analysis of quantitative inconsistencies
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Understanding the dynamics of sustainable social-ecological systems: Human behavior, institutions, and regulatory feedback networks
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Toward a Theory of Non-linear Transitions from Foraging to Farming
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The socioecology of hunter--gatherer territory size
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The effect of information in a behavioral irrigation experiment
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Social roles and performance of social-ecological systems: Evidence from behavioral lab experiments
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Reflections on building resilience--interactions among principles and implications for governance
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Principle 4--Foster complex adaptive systems thinking
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Managing variance: Key policy challenges for the Anthropocene
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How Does a Divided Population Respond to Change?
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Effect of infrastructure design on commons dilemmas in social- ecological system dynamics
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A comparative ethnoarchaeological analysis of corporate territorial ownership
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Weak feedbacks, governance mismatches, and the robustness of social-ecological systems: an analysis of the Southwest Nova Scotia lobster fishery with comparison to Maine
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Understanding the Dynamics of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems: Human Behavior, Institutions, and Regulatory Feedback Networks
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Transformation of Resource Management Institutions Under Globalization: The Case of Songgye Community Forests in South Korea
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The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft. By Derek Wall. New York & London: Routledge
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Social roles and performance of social-ecological systems: evidence from behavioral lab experiments
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Embedding built environments in social--ecological systems: resilience-based design principles
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Crop Specialization, Exchange and Robustness in a Semi-arid Environment
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Climate engineering reconsidered
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The Topology of Non-Linear Global Carbon Dynamics: From Tipping Points to Planetary Boundaries
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The Impact of Storage on the Home Range Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherers
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Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems: Implications for Public Policy
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Environmental variability and collective action: Experimental insights from an irrigation game
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Aligning key concepts for global change policy: Robustness, resilience, and sustainability
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Adaptive Regime Shifts in Hunter-gatherer Social-ecological Systems
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A multi-method approach to study robustness of social--ecological systems: the case of small-scale irrigation systems
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Intensification, Tipping Points, and Social Change in a Coupled Forager-Resource System
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Elinor Ostrom (1933--2012): Pioneer in the Interdisciplinary Science of Coupled Social-Ecological Systems.
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An Uncommon Scholar of the Commons
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The fragility of robust social-ecological systems
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The challenge of understanding decisions in experimental studies of common pool resource governance
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Synthesis: Vulnerability, Traps, and Transformations: Long-term Perspectives from Archaeology
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Robustness and Resilience across Scales: Migration and Resource Degradation in the Prehistoric US Southwest
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Modeling Human Ecodynamics and Biocultural Interactions in the Late Pleistocene of Western Eurasia
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Head-enders as stationary bandits in asymmetric commons: Comparing irrigation experiments in the laboratory and the field
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Governing the commons: Learning from field and laboratory experiments
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Coordination and cooperation in asymmetric commons dilemmas
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Confronting Management Challenges in Highly Uncertain Natural Resource Systems: a Robustness--Vulnerability Trade-off Approach
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The cross-scale interplay between social and biophysical context and the vulnerability of irrigation-dependent societies: archaeology's long-term perspective
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Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling
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Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal
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Invasion, competition, and biodiversity loss in urban ecosystems
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Resilience, adaptability, and transformability in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia
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Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs involved in approaches to climate policy
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Observing, Understanding, and Acting: Information Processing for Navigating Social-Ecological Systems.
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Analyzing the Impact of Agave Cultivation on Famine Risk in Arid Pre-Hispanic Northern Mexico
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Stylized Models to Analyze Robustness of Irrigation Systems
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Robustness trade-offs in social-ecological systems
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Robustness of social-ecological systems to spatial and temporal variability
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Panaceas, uncertainty, and the robust control framework in sustainability science
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Living in the city: Resource availability, predation, and bird population dynamics in urban areas
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Going beyond panaceas special feature: going beyond panaceas
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Toward a network perspective of the study of resilience in social-ecological systems
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Robustness, institutions, and large-scale change in social-ecological systems: the Hohokam of the Phoenix Basin
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Loss of resilience, crisis, and institutional change: lessons from an intensive agricultural system in southeastern Australia
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Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems
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Fifteen weddings and a funeral: case studies and resilience-based management
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Exploring resilience in social-ecological systems: comparative studies and theory development
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Exploring resilience in social-ecological systems through comparative studies and theory development: introduction to the special issue
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Collapse and reorganization in social-ecological systems: questions, some ideas, and policy implications
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Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene. By Niles Eldredge. W.~W. Norton & Company, N.Y.
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Robustness in ecosystems
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Minimal models and agroecological policy at the regional scale: an application to salinity problems in southeastern Australia
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Robust strategies for managing rangelands with multiple stable attractors
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A framework to analyze the robustness of social-ecological systems from an institutional perspective
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The effect of subsistence on collapse and institutional adaptation in population--resource societies
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Economic development, demographics, and renewable resources: a dynamical systems approach
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The transition from local to global dynamics: A proposed framework for agent-based thinking in social-ecological systems
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Resilience management in social-ecological systems: a working hypothesis for a participatory approach
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Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability. Edited by Robert Costanza, Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, and James Wilson
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Implications of spatial heterogeneity of grazing pressure on the resilience of rangelands
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Grazing management, resilience, and the dynamics of a fire-driven rangeland system
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart. By G. Gigerenzer, P. M. Todd, and the ABC Research Group. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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From metaphor to measurement: resilience of what to what?
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On modeling human behavior and institutions in simple ecological economic systems
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Fluctuating environments and phytoplankton community structure: a stochastic model
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Making Sense of Sex: How Genes and Gender Influence Our Relationships. By David Barash and Judith Lipton. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
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Culture and human agro-ecosystem dynamics: the Tsembaga of New Guinea
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An adaptive model for predicting! Kung reproductive performance: A stochastic dynamic programming approach
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