Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Social-ecological systems are governed by a complex of ecology of games featuring multiple actors, policy institutions, and issues, and not just single institutions operating in isolation.We update Long's (1958) ecology of games to analyze the coordinating roles of actors and institutions in the context of the ecology of water management games in San Francisco Bay, California.The ecology of games is operationalized as a bipartite network with actors participating in institutions, and exponential random graph models are used to test hypotheses about the structural features of the network.We found that policy coordination is facilitated mostly by federal and state agencies and collaborative institutions that span geographic boundaries.Network configurations associated with closure show the most significant departures from the predicted model values, consistent with the Berardo and Scholz (2010) "risk hypothesis" that closure is important for solving cooperation problems.
Source: Ecology and Society
Authors: Mark Lubell, Garry Robins, Peng Wang
Institutions: University of California, Davis, The University of Melbourne
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $975
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2109932982