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

该提案描述了申请人打算在印第安纳州大学为期五个月的访问期间在布卢明顿的政治理论和政策分析研讨会上进行的研究和交流（www.indiana.edu/campleworkshop/）。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系统和生物物理系统的能力不断扩大，这种能力在世纪迅速增强。因此，需要适当的理论方法和实证方法，以正确解释和理解社会生态系统中与自然相关的机构和治理结构的复杂性和多样性。实现这一目标的一个核心先决条件是分析框架，这些框架有能力作为研究指南，指导研究进程走向“可持续性机构”。该项目旨在完善，改进和扩展不同学校现有的分析框架，以达到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.