Cole Daniel H. - Resource governance

G WEN A RNOLD is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, and an affiliated faculty member at The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Her research investigates theoretical questions surrounding policy entrepreneurship in local government and public agencies; dynamics of state-local federalism in the United States; policy decision-making by street-level public officials facing capacity constraints; and institutional fit. Substantively, her current work focuses on management of wetlands and high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the United States.

W ILLIAM B LOMQUIST is dean of the School of Liberal Arts, professor of political science, and adjunct professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He received his PhD in political science from Indiana University Bloomington in 1987. His research interests concern governmental organization and public policies, with a specialization in the field of water institutions and water management.

D ANIEL H. C OLE is professor of law and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also serves on the Affiliated Faculty of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Professor Cole is author or editor of seven books, including Property in Land and Other Resources (Lincoln Institute, 2012), which he coedited with Elinor Ostrom, and approximately fifty articles, book chapters, and essays, most of which cross the boundaries of law, economics, and political science. Currently, Professor Cole is a coprincipal investigator on two current research grants: one from the National Science Foundation (CNH) to study snowmelt-dependent irrigation systems in the western United States and Kenya under conditions of climate change; the other a FORMAS grant from the Swedish Research Council on a subcontract from the University of Gothenburg. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the NYU Law School, and a Life Member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study), University of Cambridge.

M ICHAEL C OX is an environmental social scientist who studies community-based natural resource management, environmental governance, and the determinants of resilience and vulnerability in social-ecological systems. He has conducted empirical fieldwork-based analyses of irrigation systems in the southwest United States, Peru, and Kenya. More recently, he has participated in an analysis of small-scale fisheries management in the Dominican Republic. He is currently conducting a synthetic analysis of large-scale environmental governance, the details of which can be found at https://sesmad.dartmouth.edu/.

R OY G ARDNER was Chancellors Professor of Economics and Henry H. H. Remak Professor of West European Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He specialized in the theory of games and economic behavior.

M ICHAEL D. M C G INNIS is professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a senior research fellow (and former director) of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. He has a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota and a BS in mathematics from The Ohio State University. He has published articles and book chapters on topics in public policy, institutional analysis, humanitarian aid, arms control, game theory, faith-based organizations, and US health policy.

E LINOR O STROM was founding director and senior research director of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of political science, and professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. She was the cowinner of the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

V INCENT O STROM was founding director of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science at Indiana University Bloomington.

E DELLA S CHLAGER is professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She received her PhD in Political Science from Indiana University with Elinor Ostrom. Her research focuses on western water institutions, law, policy, and governance. She is the coauthor, with William Blomquist and Tanya Heikkila, of Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado (Resources for the Future, 2004) and coauthor, with William Blomquist, of Embracing Watershed Politics (University Press of Colorado, 2008). She is currently coeditor of the Policy Studies Journal .

S ERGIO V ILLAMAYOR -T OMAS is currently research associate and lecturer at the Division of Resource Economics (Department of Agricultural Economics) at Humboldt University, Berlin. His research interests include irrigation and watershed management, climate change adaptation, the role of communication and information in common-pool resource contexts, and the dialogue between common-pool resource theory and social movements theory in the natural resource management context. He has developed fieldwork research in Spain and Mexico.

Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

D ANIEL H. C OLE AND M ICHAEL D. M C G INNIS , EDS .

Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy

Volume 1, Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science
Volume 2, Resource Governance
Volume 3, Frameworks and Methods

Volume 4, Policy Analysis

V INCENT O STROM

The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment (3rd edition; 2008)

V INCENT O STROM

The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Natural Resources Policy and Essays on Community and Collective Choice , volume 1.

Edited by Barbara Allen (2011)

V INCENT O STROM

The Quest to Understand Human Affairs: Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice , volume 2.

Edited by Barbara Allen (2012)

Interior design and typesetting by Patty Lezotte.

F irst and foremost, the editors remain indebted to Patty Lezotte, our Ostrom Workshop colleague without whose editorial, typesetting, and organizational skills, this second volume never would have appeared. Joanna Broderick prepared the index. We wish to thank the Indiana University Foundation, which now holds the copyright for the published and unpublished papers of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, for generously allowing us permission to reprint several of their papers in this collection. We also thank the publishers of papers we are reprinting in this volume, who granted permission for republication, in many cases without compensation or at a significant discount. Finally, we wish to thank the authors of the papers included here, for their willingness to allow us to include them, and especially for their continuing efforts to build upon and extend the exciting tradition of research pioneered by Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.