1st Edition

Researching Institutions in Natural Resource Governance Methods and Frameworks

Edited By Fiona Nunan Copyright 2025
244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associated with natural resource governance. Institutions as rules of the game are fundamental to the management, governance and use of renewable natural resources, such as fisheries, forests and water. Yet researching institutions, particularly informal... Read more

1. Theory and methods in the study of institutions (Fiona Nunan) 2. Using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework to link collective action, behavioural change and social-environmental outcomes in conservation policy (Tanya Hayes and Felipe Murtinho) 3. Applying the Institutional Grammar in the Study of Natural Resource Governance (Saba Siddiki and Edella Schlager) 4. Measuring institutions in quantitative field research (Graham Epstein) 5.Institutional Complexity in Linked Socio-Ecological Systems - An Approach to Studying Multi-Level, Cross-Scalar Contexts (Candace K. May) 6. Participatory modelling of institutional dynamics: Navigating epistemological challenges in fuzzy cognitive mapping (Jelto Makris, Michael Kriegl, Ben Nagel and Achim Schlüter) 7. Practical considerations for network analysis in research and decision-making: drawing from diverse approaches for grounded insights (Rebecca. A. Riggs, James. D. Langston and Mas Davino Sayaza) 8. Deconstructing Local Institutions in a Forest Landscape: An Ethnographic Case Study from India (Sumana Datta) 9. Staying with the trouble: Experimenting with a socio-technical approach to researching water governance (Tavengwa Chitata, Frances Cleaver and Jeltsje Kemerink-Seyoum) 10. From rules to practices: Assembling natural resource governance in the Peruvian Amazon (José Carlos Orihuela) 11. Navigating rules of ‘the range’ beyond the commons: Focusing on relationality and process in China and Kenya (Palden Tsering and Ryan R. Unks) 12. Conclusion (Fiona Nunan)

Biography

Fiona Nunan is Professor of Environment and Development in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Understanding Poverty and the Environment (Routledge, 2015), editor of Governing Renewable Natural Resources (Routledge, 2020) and lead editor of The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South (Routledge, 2022).