"Institutions of Sustainability" as an Analytical Framework and Research Heuristics

本提案描述了申请者打算在印第安纳大学布卢明顿政治理论和政策分析研讨会(www.Indiana.edu/~shop/)访问五个月期间进行的研究和沟通。申请人所处的研究过程的背景是人类使用和过度使用地球物理和生物物理系统的能力在20世纪迅速增加。因此，需要有适当的理论方法和经验方法，以便对社会生态系统中与自然有关的机构和治理结构的复杂性和多样性作出适当的解释和理解。实现这一目标的一个核心前提是分析框架，这些框架有能力作为研究启发式方法，指导“可持续发展机构”的研究进程。该项目旨在完善、改进和扩展不同学校现有的分析框架，以得出一个从制度角度分析社会生态系统的框架。

This proposal describes the research and communication the applicant intends to conduct during a five months visit at Indiana University in the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in Bloomington (www.indiana.edu/~workshop/). The background of the research process in which the applicant finds himself is the extended capacity of humans to use and overuse both geo- and bio-physical systems, which has increased rapidly during the twentieth century. As a consequence, adequate theoretical approaches and empirical methodologies are required to develop a proper explanation and understanding of the complexity and diversity of naturerelated institutions and governance structures in socio-ecological systems. A central prerequisite to achieve this are analytical frameworks which have the capacity to serve as research heuristics for guiding research processes towards “Institutions of Sustainability”. This project aims to refine, improve and extend analytical frameworks existing in different schools to arrive at a framework for analyzing Social-Ecological Systems in an institutional perspective.