The complex nature of sustainability problems and the aim of sustainability science to
support emergent processes of transformation require rethinking how we build and make …

Abstract “Action situations”—events, venues, or physically interdependent instances of
decision-making—have become a central unit of analysis in the social–environmental …

4 phones we use every day. While this connectivity has brought about impressive
improvements to many people in terms of the distribution of food and other resources around …

The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework provides policy analysts with
concepts and variables, a meta-theoretical language, and diagnostic and empirical tools to …

Reservoirs are built worldwide for a higher water supply in dry periods by storing water
temporarily in wet periods. Recent socio‐hydrology studies hypothesized, by creating …

Freshwater salinity is rising across many regions of the United States as well as globally, a
phenomenon called the freshwater salinization syndrome (FSS). The FSS mobilizes organic …

We conducted a systematic review of the literature applying Elinor Ostrom's social-
ecological systems framework (SESF), with a focus on studies using quantitative …

Recent years have seen a proliferation of studies that use archetype analysis to better
understand and to foster transitions toward sustainability. This growing literature reveals a …

The high dependence of human communities on ecosystems' well-functioning has
transformed and degraded ecosystems at alarming rates. Strategies for sustainability are an …

Lasting community-based governance of common-pool resources depends on communities
self-organizing to monitor compliance with rules. Monitoring serves an important function in …