TY - JOUR
T1 - Social-ecological institutional fit in volunteer-based organizations
T2 - A study of lake management organizations in vilas county, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
AU - Whittaker, Dane
AU - Crippen, Alise
AU - Johnson, Corinne
AU - Janssen, Marco A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - How do the social and ecological attributes of social-ecological systems enable outcomes of those systems? The high concentration of lake organizations in northern USA enables us to study social, institutional, and ecological attributes that correlate with performance of common pool resource governance-institutional fit. In the summer of 2019, we performed an in-depth comparative study of thirty-one lake organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin using data collected through semi-structured interviews, websites, and agency databases. We systematically compared the cases using crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis, specifically analyzing how the eight Ostrom institutional design principles lead to different outcomes for the lake social-ecological systems. The Ostrom institutional design principles played an important role in SES governance outcomes where there was low-resource dependence. We found that different combinations of design principles, social, and ecological conditions led to the same lake SES outcomes-equifinality. Although we expected that there were no panaceas for lake governance, we were surprised by the high diversity in organizational goals and the relative low diversity of rules in use.
AB - How do the social and ecological attributes of social-ecological systems enable outcomes of those systems? The high concentration of lake organizations in northern USA enables us to study social, institutional, and ecological attributes that correlate with performance of common pool resource governance-institutional fit. In the summer of 2019, we performed an in-depth comparative study of thirty-one lake organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin using data collected through semi-structured interviews, websites, and agency databases. We systematically compared the cases using crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis, specifically analyzing how the eight Ostrom institutional design principles lead to different outcomes for the lake social-ecological systems. The Ostrom institutional design principles played an important role in SES governance outcomes where there was low-resource dependence. We found that different combinations of design principles, social, and ecological conditions led to the same lake SES outcomes-equifinality. Although we expected that there were no panaceas for lake governance, we were surprised by the high diversity in organizational goals and the relative low diversity of rules in use.
KW - Institutional design principles
KW - Institutional fit
KW - Lakes
KW - Qualitative comparative analysis
KW - Volunteer organization
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U2 - 10.5334/ijc.1059
DO - 10.5334/ijc.1059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109413303
SN - 1875-0281
VL - 15
SP - 181
EP - 194
JO - International Journal of the Commons
JF - International Journal of the Commons
IS - 1
ER -