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2009 Nobels: break or breakthrough for women? Interview by Jeffrey Mervis and Kate Travis

scientific article published in October 2009

A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1997

scientific article (publication date: March 1998)

A Grammar of Institutions

scientific article (publication date: September 1995)

A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change

scientific article published on 05 January 2012

A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas

scholarly article

A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems

scientific article

Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability

article

Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal

journal article from 'Policy Sciences' published in 2010

Applying the social-ecological system framework to the diagnosis of urban lake commons in Bangalore, India

scientific article

Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms

Collective Action, Property Rights, and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal

journal article from 'Politics and Society' published in 2001

Collective Choice in the Commons: Experimental Results on Proposed Allocation Rules and Votes

scientific article published in January 2000

Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

scientific article

Coupled human and natural systems

scientific article published on December 2007

Covenants with and without a Sword: Self-Governance Is Possible

scholarly article by Elinor Ostrom et al published June 1992 in American Political Science Review

Creating an Earth Atmospheric Trust

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Analysis of Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana

scientific article published in 2010

Experiments combining communication with punishment options demonstrate how individuals can overcome social dilemmas

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups

article by David Sloan Wilson et al published June 2013 in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Going beyond panaceas

scholarly article

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

book by Elinor Ostrom published in 1990

Handeln statt Warten: Ein mehrstufiger Ansatz zur Bewältigung des Klimaproblems

Heterogeneity, Group Size and Collective Action: The Role of Institutions in Forest Management

scientific article published in June 2004

Heterogeneous Preferences and Collective Action

Human Ecology and Resource Sustainability: The Importance of Institutional Diversity

scientific article published in 1995

Human–ecosystem interactions: a dynamic integrated model

article

Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory

scholarly article

Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal

scholarly article

Institutions, Incentives, and Irrigation in Nepal

report published in 1994

Lab experiments for the study of social-ecological systems

scientific article published in April 2010

Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science. By Norman Uphoff. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. 448p. $34.50.

scientific article published in 1993

Local Enforcement and Better Forests

journal article from 'World Development' published in 2005

Nested Externalities and Polycentric Institutions: Must We Wait for Global Solutions to Climate Change Before Taking Actions at Other Scales?

People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance

book published in 2000

Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future

article by Ruth S. DeFries et al published June 2012 in BioScience

Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis

article

Reconnecting to the biosphere

scientific article

Reflections on “Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation”

article

Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges

scientific article

Rules, Games, and Common-pool Resources

book published in 1994

Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social–ecological system

article

Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy

scientific article

Social science. Cooperation and the commons

scientific article

Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

Tenure alone is not sufficient: monitoring is essential

The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations

book published in 2003

The Struggle to Govern the Commons

The globalization of socio-ecological systems: An agenda for scientific research

The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries

scientific article published on 31 August 2013

The struggle to govern the commons

scientific article published in December 2003

Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

Understanding Knowledge as a Commons

book by Charlotte Hess & Elinor Ostrom

La Gouvernance des biens communs

book by Elinor Ostrom published in 2010