Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization
Author: Daniel Faber
About the Author:
Daniel Faber is director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative in Boston
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Understanding Institutional Diversity
Author: Elinor Ostrom
The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides in this book a coherent method for undertaking the analysis of diverse economic, political, and social institutions.
Understanding Institutional Diversity explains the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, which enables a scholar to choose the most relevant level of interaction for a particular question. This framework examines the arena within which interactions occur, the rules employed by participants to order relationships, the attributes of a biophysical world that structures and is structured by interactions, and the attributes of a community in which a particular arena is placed.
The book explains and illustrates how to use the IAD in the context of both field and experimental studies. Concentrating primarily on the rules aspect of the IAD framework, it provides empirical evidence about the diversity of rules, the calculation process used by participants in changing rules, and the design principles that characterize robust, self-organized resource governance institutions.
Table of Contents:
| Pt. I | An overview of the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework | 1 |
| 1 | Understanding the diversity of structured human interactions | 3 |
| 2 | Zooming in and linking action situations | 32 |
| 3 | Studying action situations in the lab | 69 |
| 4 | Animating institutional analysis | 99 |
| Pt. II | Focusing on rules | 135 |
| 5 | A grammar of institutions | 137 |
| 6 | Why classify generic rules? | 175 |
| 7 | Classifying rules | 186 |
| Pt. III | Working with rules | 217 |
| 8 | Using rules as tools to cope with the commons | 219 |
| 9 | Robust resource governance in polycentric institutions | 255 |
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