Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Elise Ottesen-Jensen House, Kjell Arholmsgate 41, 4036, Stavanger, Norway.
College of Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University, No.1, Section 2, Da Shueh Rd., Shoufeng, Hualien, 97401, Taiwan, ROC.
J Environ Manage. 2021 May 1;285:112129. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112129. Epub 2021 Feb 17.
In times of increasing pressure on natural resources, resource boundaries have become more ambiguous. Resources are increasingly interlinked, and competing users may define a resource and its boundaries differently. At times, resource units are confined into "resource plots", while at other times they are "resource stocks". Nevertheless, according to Elinor Ostrom, "clearly defined boundaries" are an important design principle. Against this background, the aim of this article is to develop, based on the work of Achille Varzi, an analytical framework with the help of which a better understanding can be gained of boundaries and their ambiguities in CPR management. Applied to 33 publications from Elinor Ostrom, the framework shows that focus has been on spatial, social boundaries. Less attention has been paid to natural boundaries, and in particular to natural resource limits. Applied to three empirical cases from East Asia, the framework shows how a more nuanced understanding of boundaries and their ambiguities can inform environmental management on the role of ambiguity. On a theoretical level, the paper finds that we need to move away from understanding a resource as a plain landscape, to a landscape as composed of shifting equilibria of resource flows, the limits of which need to be incorporated in CPR management.
在自然资源压力不断增加的时代，资源边界变得更加模糊。资源之间的联系越来越紧密，竞争用户可能会对资源及其边界有不同的定义。有时，资源单位被限制在“资源图”中，而有时它们又被称为“资源存量”。然而，根据埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆的观点，“明确界定的边界”是一个重要的设计原则。在此背景下，本文旨在在阿希尔·瓦尔齐（Achille Varzi）的工作基础上，开发一个分析框架，借助该框架可以更好地理解 CPR 管理中的边界及其模糊性。将该框架应用于埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆的 33 篇论文，结果表明，研究重点主要集中在空间和社会边界上，而对自然边界，特别是自然资源极限的关注较少。将该框架应用于东亚的三个实证案例，结果表明，对边界及其模糊性的更细致理解如何为环境管理提供有关模糊性作用的信息。从理论层面来看，本文认为我们需要从将资源理解为简单的景观，转变为将景观理解为由资源流动的不断变化的均衡构成，需要将这些流动的极限纳入 CPR 管理之中。
