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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Fleischman, Forrest; Boenning, Kinga; Daedlow, Katrin; Garcia-Lopez, Gustavo A.; López, Maria Claudia; Mincey, Sarah; Schmitt-Harsh, Mikaela; Basurto, Xavier; Fischer, Burnell C.; Ostrom, Elinor |
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Conference:
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Workshop on the Workshop 4 |
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Location:
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Indiana University Bloomington |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-6, 2009 |
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Date:
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2009 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/987
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Sector:
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Social Organization |
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Region:
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North America |
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Subject(s):
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social behavior
resilience
collective action
human ecology
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Abstract:
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"In this paper we utilize Ostrom's (2007) diagnostic framework for socio-ecological systems to examine the factors that contribute to social responses to disturbances in a set of five Indiana, USA intentional communities over a fifteen year time frame. We argue that the concept of robustness is useful in understanding designed aspects of socio-ecological systems because it emphasizes the trade-offs between achieving different goals, but is difficult to measure over long time-frames and across criteria. We thus introduce the concept of persistence as an empirically observable metric for long-enduring socio-ecological systems. We find that Communities with strong collective choice processes that reflect shared value are more able to respond adaptively to disturbances, and therefore have a higher probability of persisting over long time-frames."
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