Linking action situations: Coordination, conflicts, and evolution in electricity provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kimmich, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.03.017

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“…Action situations are linked if outcomes or actors of one situation affect the properties of another situation (Kimmich 2013). In telecoupled systems, action situations in a given SES and distant action situations are linked through flows.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2). Kimmich (2013) distinguishes four types of linkages between action situations biophysical transactions, information, institutions, and actors involved.…”

Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Kimmich and Villamayor-Tomás (2018) show how interactions in a set of linked prisoner dilemma and coordination situations cause differential performance in irrigation systems in India and Spain. Boundaries within an NAS depend on the research purpose, in particular on the outcomes of interest, for which the NAS is developed as an explanation, and on the influence of action situations on the outcome of interest (Kimmich 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We operationalize the two concepts by analyzing networks of action situations (McGinnis 2011a, Kimmich 2013 in which interactions between proximate and distant actors as well as socioeconomic and ecological processes cause land change and affect the sustainability of land systems. We illustrate this approach with a case of transnational biofuel investment in Sierra Leone.…”

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across distance. In this paper we bring together the emerging concept of telecoupled land systems and the established concept of polycentric governance to support the analysis and the development of sustainable land governance in interconnected social-ecological systems. We operationalize the two concepts by analyzing networks of action situations in which interactions between proximate and distant actors as well as socioeconomic and ecological processes cause land use change and affect the sustainability of land systems. To illustrate this integrated approach empirically, we analyze a case of transnational biofuel investment in Sierra Leone. We identify the characteristics of, and activities in, networks of action situations that affect the sustainability of land systems related to this case. Integration of the two concepts of telecoupled land systems and polycentric governance enables analysts to identify interactions in polycentric governance systems (1) as drivers of telecoupled sustainability problems and (2) as transformative approaches to such problems. The method provides one way for linking place-based analysis of land change with process-based analysis of land governance.

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Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

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“…2). Kimmich (2013) distinguishes four types of linkages between action situations biophysical transactions, information, institutions, and actors involved.…”

Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Linking and Operationalizing Analysis Of Telecoupled Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

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“…From the theoretical perspective, we update the "ecology of games" (EG) concept first coined by Norton Long (1958) and employed in a few other studies (Dutton 1995, Cornwell et al 2003, van Bueren et al 2003, Lubell et al 2010, Lubell 2013. As with the related idea of "linked action situations" (Kimmich 2013, McGinnis 2011, our approach builds on Ostrom's (2009b) institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework and its extension to the institutional analysis of SESs (Anderies et al 2004, Ostrom 2009a). …”

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Network structure and institutional complexity in an ecology of water management games

Lubell¹,

Robins²,

Wang³

2014

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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.

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Polycentricity in the water–energy nexus: A comparison of polycentric governance traits and implications for adaptive capacity of water user associations in Spain

Villamayor-Tomás

2018

Env Pol Gov

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This paper assesses the merits of polycentricity by looking at the water–energy nexus in the Spanish irrigation sector. In the last few decades, the Spanish electricity and water governance systems have transitioned from relatively monocentric, top‐down arrangements to arrangements that exhibit traits of polycentricity. This paper characterizes both governance systems against a series of polycentricity traits and provision and production activities. It then assesses the merits of the systems against the capacity of water user associations (WUAs) to adapt to water and electricity supply dynamics. The study relies on quantitative and archival data collected from a set of 38 irrigation systems located in north‐east Spain as well as secondary data from the broader water, energy and irrigation sectors. As illustrated in the analysis, WUAs can play a key role in integrating the management of water and electricity. They do so locally, via a diversity of institutional and operational adaptations. This role, however, requires sufficient levels of autonomy, clear rules that shape the interactions between WUAs and other water and electricity actors, and a relatively competitive environment.

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Linking action situations: Coordination, conflicts, and evolution in electricity provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India

Cited by 84 publications

References 33 publications

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Network structure and institutional complexity in an ecology of water management games

Polycentricity in the water–energy nexus: A comparison of polycentric governance traits and implications for adaptive capacity of water user associations in Spain

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