The emergence and resilience of self-organized governance in coupled infrastructure systems.

ABSTRACT: Studies of small-scale, self-organized social-ecological systems have contributed to our understanding of successful governance of shared resources. However, the lack of formal analytically tractable models of such coupled infrastructure systems makes it difficult to connect this understanding to such concepts as stability, robustness, and resilience, which are increasingly important in considering such systems. In this paper, we mathematically operationalize a widely used conceptual framework via a stylized dynamical model. The model yields a wide range of system outcomes: sustainability or collapse, infrastructure at full or partial capacity, and social agents seeking outside opportunities or exclusively engaging in the system. The low dimensionality of the model enables us to derive the

SUBMITTER: Muneepeerakul R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7060691 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature