TY - JOUR
T1 - From concepts to comparisons
T2 - A resource for diagnosis and measurement in social-ecological systems
AU - Cox, Michael
AU - Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio
AU - Ban, Natalie C.
AU - Epstein, Graham
AU - Evans, Louisa
AU - Fleischman, Forrest
AU - Nenadovic, Mateja
AU - Lopez, Gustavo A.Garcia
AU - van Laerhoven, Piedras Frank
AU - Meek, Chanda
AU - Ibarra, Irene Perez
AU - Schoon, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - A central challenge facing the study the environmental governance is the lack of commonunderstanding of important concepts. Critical concepts such as social boundaries, property rights, and resource dependence are selected and measured inconsistently across research projects and field settings, producing results that are difficult to compare. This stymies the accumulation of scientific evidence regarding the most effective ways to address challenging environmental problems. As members of the Social-ecological systems meta-analysis database (SESMAD) project, we have addressed this challenge by developing a repository of variables associated with many of the most important concepts across a range of fields related to environmental governance. In this paper we describe the infrastructure behind the repository, the range of variables it includes, and how it can enable scholars across a range of fields to more systematically select and measure the variables to include in their analyses.
AB - A central challenge facing the study the environmental governance is the lack of commonunderstanding of important concepts. Critical concepts such as social boundaries, property rights, and resource dependence are selected and measured inconsistently across research projects and field settings, producing results that are difficult to compare. This stymies the accumulation of scientific evidence regarding the most effective ways to address challenging environmental problems. As members of the Social-ecological systems meta-analysis database (SESMAD) project, we have addressed this challenge by developing a repository of variables associated with many of the most important concepts across a range of fields related to environmental governance. In this paper we describe the infrastructure behind the repository, the range of variables it includes, and how it can enable scholars across a range of fields to more systematically select and measure the variables to include in their analyses.
KW - Diagnosis
KW - SESMAD
KW - Social-ecological systems
KW - Variable measurement
KW - Variable repository
KW - Diagnosis
KW - SESMAD
KW - Social-ecological systems
KW - Variable measurement
KW - Variable repository
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081589115&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.009
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.009
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85081589115
SN - 1462-9011
VL - 107
SP - 211
EP - 216
JO - Environmental Science and Policy
JF - Environmental Science and Policy
ER -