Ecology and Society: Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Over-Time Analysis of Five Communities in Southern Indiana

Table 1. Factors that contribute to community responses to disturbances. Adapted from Ostrom (2009:421).

Social, Economic, and Political Settings (S)

^†S1- Economic development ^†S2- Demographic trends ^†S3- Political stability	S4- Government settlement policies S5- Market incentives S6- Media organization
Resource System (RS)	Governance System (GS)
^†RS1- Sector (e.g., water, forests, pasture, fish) ^†RS2- Clarity of system boundaries ^†RS3- Size of resource system RS4- Human-constructed facilities RS5- Productivity of system RS6- Equilibrium properties RS7- Predictability of system dynamics RS8- Storage characteristics RS9- Location	GS1- Government organizations GS2- Non-government organizations ^†GS3- Network structure ^†GS4- Property-rights systems ^†GS5- Operational rules ^†GS6- Collective-choice rules ^†GS7- Constitutional rules ^†GS8- Monitoring and sanctioning processes
Resource Units (RU)	Users (U)
RU1- Resource unit mobility RU2- Growth or replacement rate ^†RU3- Interaction among resource units ^†RU4- Economic value RU5- Number of units RU6- Distinctive markings RU7- Spatial and temporal distribution	^†U1- Number of users U2- Socioeconomic attributes of users ^†U3- History of use ^†U4- Location ^†U5- Leadership/entrepreneurship ^†U6- Norms/social capital ^†U7- Knowledge of SES/mental models U8- Dependence on resource U9- Technology used
Interactions (I) → Outcomes (O)
I1- Harvesting levels of diverse users I2- Information sharing among users I3- Deliberation processes I4- Conflicts among users I5- Investment activities I6- Lobbying activities I7- Self-organizing activities I8- Networking activities	O1- Social performance measures (e.g., efficiency, equity, accountability) O2- Ecological performance measures (e.g., overharvested, resilience, diversity) O3- Externalities to other SESs
Related Ecosystems (ECO) ECO1- Climate patterns ECO2- Pollution patterns ECO3- Flows into and out of focal SES

^†Variables that are identified with explanatory power in our case study analysis.