Challenges and opportunities in coding the commons: problems, procedures, and potential solutions in large-N comparative case studies
Challenges and opportunities in coding the commons: problems, procedures, and potential solutions in large-N comparative case studies
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编码公共资源的挑战和机遇：大量比较案例研究中的问题、程序和潜在解决方案
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10.18352/ijc.652
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2016
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通讯作者：
M. Janssen
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作者：
Elicia Ratajczyk;Ute Brady;J. Baggio;A. Barnett;I. Pérez;N. Rollins;Cathy Rubiños;Hoon C. Shin;David J. Yu;R. Aggarwal;J. Anderies;M. Janssen
为了解耦合的社会-生态(或更广泛地说，耦合的基础设施)系统和公共池资源的动态，在大量案例研究的基础上产生了许多数据集。这些数据有助于确定重要因素和基本原则，这些因素和基本原则增加了我们对这种复杂系统的了解。然而，我们掌握的数据往往不容易进行比较，范围和规模有限，并且基于完全不同的基础框架，阻碍了合成、荟萃分析和结果的验证。如果案例纳入标准、变量定义、编码方案和编码者间可靠性测试没有在研究报告中明确说明并在研究界中共享，研究工作就会进一步受到阻碍。本文首先概述了从事大规模编码项目的研究人员所经历的挑战；然后强调了所学到的宝贵经验；最后讨论了进一步研究以社会生态系统和公共池资源为重点的比较案例分析的机会。
On-going efforts to understand the dynamics of coupled social-ecological (or more broadly, coupled infrastructure) systems and common pool resources have led to the generation of numerous datasets based on a large number of case studies. This data has facilitated the identification of important factors and fundamental principles which increase our understanding of such complex systems. However, the data at our disposal are often not easily comparable, have limited scope and scale, and are based on disparate underlying frameworks inhibiting synthesis, meta-analysis, and the validation of findings. Research efforts are further hampered when case inclusion criteria, variable definitions, coding schema, and inter-coder reliability testing are not made explicit in the presentation of research and shared among the research community. This paper first outlines challenges experienced by researchers engaged in a large-scale coding project; then highlights valuable lessons learned; and finally discusses opportunities for further research on comparative case study analysis focusing on social-ecological systems and common pool resources.