Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216903 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Citation: 
[Journal:] Ecology and Society [ISSN:] 1708-3087 [Volume:] 15 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Resilience Alliance [Place:] Wolfville, Nova Scotia [Year:] 2010
Publisher: 
Resilience Alliance, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Abstract: 
We develop an analytic framework for the analysis of robustness in social-ecological systems (SESs) over time. We argue that social robustness is affected by the disturbances that communities face and the way they respond to them. Using Ostrom's ontological framework for SESs, we classify the major factors influencing the disturbances and responses faced by five Indiana intentional communities over a 15-year time frame. Our empirical results indicate that operational and collective-choice rules, leadership and entrepreneurship, monitoring and sanctioning, economic values, number of users, and norms/social capital are key variables that need to be at the core of future theoretical work on robustness of self-organized systems.
Subjects: 
disturbance
intentional communities
response
robustness
social-ecological systems
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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