Selected Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Governance and Institutions.” In The Princeton Guide to Ecology, ed. Simon A. Levin, 748–53. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
“A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems.” Science 325(5939) (July 24, 2009): 419–22.
“Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action.” In Games, Groups, and the Global Good, ed. Simon Levin, 207–28. New York: Springer, 2009.
“Analyzing the Dynamic Complexity of Development Interventions: Lessons from an Irrigation Experiment in Nepal” (with Wai Fung Lam). Policy Sciences, OnlineFirst May 5, 2009,
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l174382165v62868/
“Unresolved Questions of the Social Sciences.” Tvärsnitt 2/09 (2009): 6–8. (in Swedish).
“Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments” (with James Cox, James Walker, Antonio Jamie Castillo, Eric Coleman, Robert Holahan, Michael Schoon, and Brian Steed). Southern Economic Journal 75(4) (April 2009): 957–75.
“Gemeingütermanagement—eine Perspektive für bürgerschaftliches Engagement” [Governing a Commons from a Citizen’s Perspective]. In Wem gehört die Welt? Zur Wiederentdeckung der Gemeingüter, ed. Silke Helfrich, 218–228. München: Oekom Verlag, 2009.
“Commons.” In The Oxford Companion to Global Change, ed. David Cuff and Andrew Goudie. Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference Online.
“What is Social Capital?” In Social Capital: Reaching Out, Reaching In, ed. Viva Bartkus and James Davis, 17–38. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009.
“Engaging with Impossibilities and Possibilities.” In Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, 522–41. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“Top-Down Solutions: Looking Up from East Africa’s Rangelands” (with Esther Mwangi). Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 51(1) (January/February 2009): 34–44.
“A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand” (with Esther Mwangi). In Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment—Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn, ed. Volker Beckmann and Martina Padmanabhan, 195–221. New York: Springer, 2009.
“TURFS in the Lab: Institutional Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons” (with Marco Janssen). Rationality and Society 20(4) (2008): 371–97.
“El Gobierno de los Bienes Comunes Desde el Punto de Vista de la Ciudadanía.” In [url=http://www.boell-latinoamerica.org/index.html?
http://www.boell-latinoamerica.org/es/web/795.html]Genes, Bytes y Emisiones: Bienes Comunes y Ciudadanía[/url], ed. Silke Helfrich, 268–278. Mexico: Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2008.
“Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization, and Landscape Change” (with Tom Evans and Abigail York). In Political Economies of Landscape Change: Places of Power, ed. James Wescoat and Douglas Johnston, 111–29. New York: Springer, 2008.
“Institutions and the Environment.” Economic Affairs 28(3) (September 2008): 24–31.
“Linking Forests, Trees, and People: From the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab” (with Harini Nagendra). Current Conservation, no. 2.1 (January 2008): 4–5.
“Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change.” In Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and Impact, ed. Sandra Batie and Nicholas Mercuro, 48–76. New York: Routledge, 2008.
“Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems” (with Jon Norberg, James Wilson, and Brian Walker). In Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future, ed. Jon Norberg and Graeme Cumming. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
“Tragedy of the Ecological Commons.” In Encyclopedia of Ecology, 1st edition, ed. Sven Erik Jorgensen and Brian D. Fath, 3573–76. Oxford: Elsevier, 2008.
"Effect of Rule Choice in Dynamic Interactive Spatial Commons” (with Marco Janssen, Robert Goldstone, and Filippo Menczer). International Journal of the Commons 2(2) (July 2008): 288–312.
“The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources.” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 50(4) (July/August 2008): 8–20.
“Facilitating Decentralized Policies for Sustainable Governance and Management of Forest Resources in Asia” (with Ganesh Shivakoti). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities: Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 292–310. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Implications of Leasehold and Community Forestry for Poverty Alleviation” (with Mukunda Karmacharya and Birendra Karna). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities: Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 177–208. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Decentralization and Community-Based Forestry: Learning from Experience” (with Arun Agrawal). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities: Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 44–67. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Deliberation, Learning, and Institutional Change: The Evolution of Institutions in Judicial Settings” (with William Blomquist). Constitutional Political Economy [electronic online first version, June 13, 2008].
“Frameworks and Theories of Environmental Change.” Global Environmental Change 18(2) (May 2008): 249–252.
“Social Capital and Collective Action” (with T. K. Ahn). In The Handbook of Social Capital, ed. Dario Castiglione, Jan van Deth, and Guglielmo Wolleb, 70–100. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Tragedy of the Commons.” In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., ed. Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
“Will Lessons from Small-Scale Social Dilemmas Scale Up?” (with Michael McGinnis). In New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas, ed. Anders Biel, Daniel Eek, Tommy Gärling, and Mathias Gustaffson, 189–211. Berlin: Springer, 2008.
“The Vital Role of Norms and Rules in Maintaining Open Public and Private Economies” (with David Schwab). In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, ed. Paul J. Zak, 204–227. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
“Analyzing Decentralized Resource Regimes from a Polycentric Perspective” (with Krister Andersson). Policy Sciences 41:71–93.
“Fifteen Years of Empirical Research on Collective Action in Natural Resource Management: Struggling to Build Large-N Databases Based on Qualitative Research” (with Amy Poteete). World Development 36(1) (2008): 176–95.
“Collective Action and Local Development Processes.” Sociologica (Italian Journal of Sociology) 3 (2007): 1–32.
“Coupled Human and Natural Systems” (with Jianguo Liu, Thomas Dietz, Stephen Carpenter, Carl Folke, Marina Alberti, Charles Redman, Stephen Schneider, et al.). Ambio 36(8) (December 2007): 639–49.
“Challenges and Growth: The Development of the Interdisciplinary Field of Institutional Analysis.” Journal of Institutional Economics 3(3) (December 2007): 239–64.
“Governing the Commons in the New Millennium: A Diversity of Institutions for Natural Resource Management” (with Harini Nagendra). In Encyclopedia of Earth, ed. Cutler J. Cleveland. Washington, DC: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment, 2007. [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth, November 16, 2007].
“Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal” (with Harini Nagendra). In The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society, ed. Jules Pretty, et al., 578–89. London: Sage, 2007.
“Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons” (with Frank van Laerhoven). International Journal of the Commons 1(1) (October 2007): 3–28.