Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources

Ulrich Frey is a senior researcher at the German Aerospace Center and a lecturer in ecology and natural resource management at the University of Giessen. At DLR, he is responsible for modeling renewable energies. Frey holds two PhDs, and his current research is focused on natural resource management and cooperation to achieve sustainable outcomes.

• Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction1.1 The high importance of natural resources1.2 Research question and goals Chapter 2: State of Research2.1 What are fundamental biological mechanisms of cooperation?2.2 What drives cooperation in laboratory experiments?2.3 Common-pool resources2.4 A primer on social-ecological systems2.5 Potential success factors for sustainable management of social-ecological systems Chapter 3: Data3.1 Common-pool resource database3.2 Nepal irrigation institution study database3.3 International forestry resources and institutions database3.4 Comparability of databases3.5 Data preparation Chapter 4: Methods4.1 Introducing the three statistical methods used4.2 Operationalizing the success factors via a new indicator system Chapter 5: Results and Discussion5.1 Synthesis of success factors5.2 Results for the common-pool resource data5.3 Results for the Nepal irrigation institution study data5.4 Results for the international forestry resources and institutions data5.5 Results for a combined full model5.6 Robustness and sensitivity analyses Chapter 6: Discussion and Conclusion6.1 Final assessment6.2 New findings6.3 Summary6.4 Outlook Chapter 7: Appendix ReferencesIndex

It is my hope that others will look at this and be inspired to work with their colleagues to, for example, collect more comparable data with consistent data collection protocols.