Achim Schlüter
Biographic Data
| ID | 117249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Achim Schlüter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Achim |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlüter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLÜTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Constructor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0046-7263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mental models of aquaculture governance in Indonesia
Aquaculture stakeholders have mental models, which are the internal cognitive representations of how they understand and prioritize the different features of their aquaculture systems. Individuals and stakeholder groups are likely to have different mental models, with implications for making cooperative governance work and guiding the rapidly emerging sector’s sustainable development. We apply a participatory approach called fuzzy cognitive mappi…
Understanding transformations in the marine coastal realm
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions
Due to the strong interconnectedness between the ocean and our societies worldwide, improved ocean governance is essential for sustainable development in the context of the UN Ocean Decade. However, a multitude of different perspectives—ecological, societal, political, economic—and relations between these have to be understood and taken into consideration to foster transformative pathways towards marine sustainability. A core challenge that we ar…
Aquaculture governance
Can the Indonesian collective action norm of Gotong-Royong be strengthened with economic incentives? Comparing the implementation of an aquaculture irrigation policy program
The Indonesian multi-level governmental program (PITAP) is a participatory pond irrigation management policy established by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. It aims to catalyze the rehabilitation of irrigation canals to improve water access for small-scale aquaculture farmers. In PITAP, traditional aquaculture farmers are incentivized with government funding to create community-based co-management groups (POKLINA), to maintain the se…
Deliberating coral reef protection – Cultural Theory tested
Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context
There are few studies about how social-ecological context is linked to actor perceptions in environmental governance, although it is evident that resource use behavior, participatory processes, rule compliance, and cooperation are influenced by actors’ perceptions. We apply and combine Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework (SESF) and Bennett’s (2016) perception framework to identify the contextual variables influencing different perception…
Governance and the coastal condition
The conceptual framework of evolutionary governance theory (EGT) is deployed and extended to rethink the idea of coastal governance and the possibilities of a coastal governance better adapted to challenges of climate change and intensified use of both land and sea. ‘The coastal condition’ is analysed as a situation where particular modes of observation and coordination were possible and necessary, and those observations (and derived calculations…
Land-sea interactions and coastal development
Coasts are changing at an impressive speed. Therewith come changes in and challenges to governance that require an empirically-based understanding in order to foster sustainability transitions. New challenges are often not adequately met, so a host of problems arise. The papers in this special issue speak to these problems and consider which governance approaches might be worth exploring. The authors look at a diverse set of governance practices …
Coral reefs and the slow emergence of institutional structures for a glocal land- and sea-based collective dilemma
Environmental governance theories
Partelow, S., A. Schlüter, D. Armitage, M. Bavinck, K. Carlisle, R. Gruby, A.-K. Hornidge, M. Le Tissier, J. Pittman, A. M. Song, L. P. Sousa, N. Văidianu, and K. Van Assche. 2020. Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems. Ecology and Society 25(4):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12067-250419
Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations
Schlüter, A., M. Bavinck, M. Hadjimichael, S. Partelow, A. Said, and I. Ertör. 2020. Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11772-250320
Resource changes
The paper reports a laboratory experiment in which groups of participants managed a Common-Pool Resource (CPR). The goal was to observe if different types of resource change, whether exogenous or endogenous, and gradual or sudden, would lead to different behaviour, and if the participants would adapt easily to any one of these changes. The experiment used a time continuous, dynamic tool. Endogenous resource changes, when compared with exogenous c…
Do responsible fishing areas work? Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is supporting Marine Areas of Responsible Fishing (AMPRs) to enable small-scale fishing communities to apply for exclusive harvesting and management rights within spatially delimited areas under a co-management policy framework. Communities need to self-organize their own fishing association and develop a fishing management plan (POP) to apply. Seven AMPRs have been established in the Gulf of Nicoya, but many face collective action cha…
Privatizing the commons
Privatization is, since Hardin, often promoted as a solution to many natural resource management challenges, particularly in common-pool resource systems. However, novel forms of privatization are being implemented in unexamined ways. In this article we explore how privatization affects natural resource management from the perspective of multi-dimensional social-ecological systems. We critique the notion that privatization is desirable due to its…
Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Fujitani, V. Soundararajan, and A. Schlüter. 2019. Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement. Ecology and Society 24(1):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10724-240115
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in pond aquaculture
This study develops and applies an interdisciplinary and mixed method approach to operationalize the social-ecological systems (SES) framework in the context of aquaculture, the fastest growing food production sector worldwide. We apply this methodology to conduct a case study of community-based pond aquaculture on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This diagnostic approach demonstrates how sustainability challenges are interrel…
Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Glaser, S. Solano Arce, R. Sá Leitão Barboza, and A. Schlüter. 2018. Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil. Ecology and Society 23(3):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10269-230319
When Patience Leads to Destruction
Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon
The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom’s Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a …
External validity of artefactual field experiments
Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas
Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems
Determinants of Performance of Community-Based Drinking Water Organizations
The grammar of institutions
The grammar of institutions developed by Crawford and Ostrom presents a common syntax for analysing institutions and dismantles them into their components. This is a promising undertaking given the huge diversity of definitions of institutions, even within a single discipline. Additionally, the grammar opens a long existing black box regarding why individuals do or do not follow an institution. It differentiates between formal sanctions ('or else…
Determinants of Performance of Community-Based Drinking Water Organizations
External validity of artefactual field experiments
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in pond aquaculture
This study develops and applies an interdisciplinary and mixed method approach to operationalize the social-ecological systems (SES) framework in the context of aquaculture, the fastest growing food production sector worldwide. We apply this methodology to conduct a case study of community-based pond aquaculture on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This diagnostic approach demonstrates how sustainability challenges are interrel…
Enough is Enough
This paper analyses the emergence of recent activism in Grangemouth, Scotland's major petrochemical centre and an important BP site since 1924. Today this is a town in crisis. In a mood of growing pessimism and distrust, public doubts about the economic security and environmental safety of the town have provoked increasingly vocal local opposition to planning applications which would extend activity in chemicals while economic diversification is …
The grammar of institutions
The grammar of institutions developed by Crawford and Ostrom presents a common syntax for analysing institutions and dismantles them into their components. This is a promising undertaking given the huge diversity of definitions of institutions, even within a single discipline. Additionally, the grammar opens a long existing black box regarding why individuals do or do not follow an institution. It differentiates between formal sanctions ('or else…
Institutional change in the forestry sector—The explanatory potential of New Institutional Economics
Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations
Schlüter, A., M. Bavinck, M. Hadjimichael, S. Partelow, A. Said, and I. Ertör. 2020. Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11772-250320
Do responsible fishing areas work? Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is supporting Marine Areas of Responsible Fishing (AMPRs) to enable small-scale fishing communities to apply for exclusive harvesting and management rights within spatially delimited areas under a co-management policy framework. Communities need to self-organize their own fishing association and develop a fishing management plan (POP) to apply. Seven AMPRs have been established in the Gulf of Nicoya, but many face collective action cha…
Privatizing the commons
Privatization is, since Hardin, often promoted as a solution to many natural resource management challenges, particularly in common-pool resource systems. However, novel forms of privatization are being implemented in unexamined ways. In this article we explore how privatization affects natural resource management from the perspective of multi-dimensional social-ecological systems. We critique the notion that privatization is desirable due to its…
Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Glaser, S. Solano Arce, R. Sá Leitão Barboza, and A. Schlüter. 2018. Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil. Ecology and Society 23(3):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10269-230319
Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas
Aquaculture governance
Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Fujitani, V. Soundararajan, and A. Schlüter. 2019. Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement. Ecology and Society 24(1):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10724-240115
Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon
The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom’s Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a …
Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems
Mental models of aquaculture governance in Indonesia
Aquaculture stakeholders have mental models, which are the internal cognitive representations of how they understand and prioritize the different features of their aquaculture systems. Individuals and stakeholder groups are likely to have different mental models, with implications for making cooperative governance work and guiding the rapidly emerging sector’s sustainable development. We apply a participatory approach called fuzzy cognitive mappi…
Enough is Enough
This paper analyses the emergence of recent activism in Grangemouth, Scotland's major petrochemical centre and an important BP site since 1924. Today this is a town in crisis. In a mood of growing pessimism and distrust, public doubts about the economic security and environmental safety of the town have provoked increasingly vocal local opposition to planning applications which would extend activity in chemicals while economic diversification is …
Rationalizing risk
This article examines the centrality of 'safety' in Grangemouth's recent politics. Scotland's main petrochemical center is a town dominated for well over fifty years by a major BP complex. In a context of extensive redundancies at BP, new insecurities surrounding the future of the company's Grangemouth site, and a series of recent accidents, as well as controversy over planning applications from other chemical companies, the town has been pushed …
Institutional change in the forestry sector—The explanatory potential of New Institutional Economics
The grammar of institutions
The grammar of institutions developed by Crawford and Ostrom presents a common syntax for analysing institutions and dismantles them into their components. This is a promising undertaking given the huge diversity of definitions of institutions, even within a single discipline. Additionally, the grammar opens a long existing black box regarding why individuals do or do not follow an institution. It differentiates between formal sanctions ('or else…
Determinants of Performance of Community-Based Drinking Water Organizations
Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social–ecological systems
Can institutional change theories contribute to the understanding of marine protected areas
Collective action in a tropical estuarine lagoon
The paper contributes to the social-ecological systems literature by adapting and using Elinor Ostrom’s Social-Ecological System (SES) framework in the context of a coastal ecosystem. We modified the SES framework in the case of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM), an estuarine lagoon in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The ecological importance of CGSM and its species is undeniable. This paper aims to understand why collective action for a …
External validity of artefactual field experiments
When Patience Leads to Destruction
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in pond aquaculture
This study develops and applies an interdisciplinary and mixed method approach to operationalize the social-ecological systems (SES) framework in the context of aquaculture, the fastest growing food production sector worldwide. We apply this methodology to conduct a case study of community-based pond aquaculture on the island of Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This diagnostic approach demonstrates how sustainability challenges are interrel…
Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Glaser, S. Solano Arce, R. Sá Leitão Barboza, and A. Schlüter. 2018. Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil. Ecology and Society 23(3):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10269-230319
Resource changes
The paper reports a laboratory experiment in which groups of participants managed a Common-Pool Resource (CPR). The goal was to observe if different types of resource change, whether exogenous or endogenous, and gradual or sudden, would lead to different behaviour, and if the participants would adapt easily to any one of these changes. The experiment used a time continuous, dynamic tool. Endogenous resource changes, when compared with exogenous c…
Do responsible fishing areas work? Comparing collective action challenges in three small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is supporting Marine Areas of Responsible Fishing (AMPRs) to enable small-scale fishing communities to apply for exclusive harvesting and management rights within spatially delimited areas under a co-management policy framework. Communities need to self-organize their own fishing association and develop a fishing management plan (POP) to apply. Seven AMPRs have been established in the Gulf of Nicoya, but many face collective action cha…
Privatizing the commons
Privatization is, since Hardin, often promoted as a solution to many natural resource management challenges, particularly in common-pool resource systems. However, novel forms of privatization are being implemented in unexamined ways. In this article we explore how privatization affects natural resource management from the perspective of multi-dimensional social-ecological systems. We critique the notion that privatization is desirable due to its…
Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement
Partelow, S., M. Fujitani, V. Soundararajan, and A. Schlüter. 2019. Transforming the social-ecological systems framework into a knowledge exchange and deliberation tool for comanagement. Ecology and Society 24(1):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10724-240115
Governance and the coastal condition
The conceptual framework of evolutionary governance theory (EGT) is deployed and extended to rethink the idea of coastal governance and the possibilities of a coastal governance better adapted to challenges of climate change and intensified use of both land and sea. ‘The coastal condition’ is analysed as a situation where particular modes of observation and coordination were possible and necessary, and those observations (and derived calculations…
Land-sea interactions and coastal development
Coasts are changing at an impressive speed. Therewith come changes in and challenges to governance that require an empirically-based understanding in order to foster sustainability transitions. New challenges are often not adequately met, so a host of problems arise. The papers in this special issue speak to these problems and consider which governance approaches might be worth exploring. The authors look at a diverse set of governance practices …
Coral reefs and the slow emergence of institutional structures for a glocal land- and sea-based collective dilemma
Environmental governance theories
Partelow, S., A. Schlüter, D. Armitage, M. Bavinck, K. Carlisle, R. Gruby, A.-K. Hornidge, M. Le Tissier, J. Pittman, A. M. Song, L. P. Sousa, N. Văidianu, and K. Van Assche. 2020. Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems. Ecology and Society 25(4):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12067-250419
Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations
Schlüter, A., M. Bavinck, M. Hadjimichael, S. Partelow, A. Said, and I. Ertör. 2020. Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations: an interdisciplinary social science enquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11772-250320
Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context
There are few studies about how social-ecological context is linked to actor perceptions in environmental governance, although it is evident that resource use behavior, participatory processes, rule compliance, and cooperation are influenced by actors’ perceptions. We apply and combine Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework (SESF) and Bennett’s (2016) perception framework to identify the contextual variables influencing different perception…
Deliberating coral reef protection – Cultural Theory tested
Understanding transformations in the marine coastal realm
Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions
Due to the strong interconnectedness between the ocean and our societies worldwide, improved ocean governance is essential for sustainable development in the context of the UN Ocean Decade. However, a multitude of different perspectives—ecological, societal, political, economic—and relations between these have to be understood and taken into consideration to foster transformative pathways towards marine sustainability. A core challenge that we ar…
Ecology (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Corporate governance (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Biology (9 works)