Xavier Basurto
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 88515 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Xavier Basurto |
| PRENOMES | Xavier |
| SOBRENOME | Basurto |
| ASSINATURA | BASURTO X |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5321-3654 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 422 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries
Gender equality is a ubiquitous national goal, yet sectoral gender data gaps to support this goal persist. These gaps are both structural and sexist, concealing women's contributions and impeding actions that would strengthen livelihoods and economic development, food security, and environmental sustainability. The small-scale fisheries sector offers a cogent example of this phenomenon. Building on lessons from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests in…
Markets, states, and social movements shape commoning and commons
Governing access and agency
Diverse markers of social and economic difference have been found to influence resource users’ livelihood vulnerability and capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change. However, the role of self-governance forms—cooperative and non-cooperative business models that structure resource-dependent livelihoods—has received limited attention. Here, we address this gap with a 5-yr investigation (2018–2023) into how different cooperative and no…
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization are inconsistent with many of the leg…
Problemáticas
The world’s fisheries face complex and high-stakes governance problems that increasingly require mobilizing diverse collectives of governance actors. How fishers and fishing organizations understand and articulate governance problems has implications for how they engage with governance institutions and the kinds of collective action they enact. In Mexico, cooperatives are a major form of organization for small-scale fishers. Fishing cooperatives …
Who's setting the agenda? Philanthropic donor influence in marine conservation
We are in a period of unprecedented growth in conservation philanthropy. How will this influx of private funding affect conservation agendas? Inspired by a collaborative research co-design process, this paper addresses questions about how foundations influence conservation agendas in the places they work. We draw from a case study of the world’s largest philanthropic funder of marine conservation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and their…
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy
Institutional effects on ecological outcomes of community-based management of fisheries in the Amazon
The interplay between top-down interventions and bottom-up self-organization shapes opportunities for transforming self-governance in small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) contribute substantially to global food security, sustainable marine ecosystems and poverty alleviation. Yet many SSF face problems of overexploitation and poverty calling for novel governance approaches that enhance human-wellbeing, equity and ecological sustainability. External policies and interventions to support such governance transformations, however, need to take their often self-governed nature into account. C…
Opening the black box of conservation philanthropy
In the ‘new Gilded Age’ of mega-wealth and big philanthropy, academics are not paying enough attention to private foundations. Mirroring upward trends in philanthropy broadly, marine conservation philanthropy has more than doubled in recent years, reaching virtually every globally salient marine conservation issue in all corners of the planet. This paper argues that marine conservation philanthropy warrants a dedicated research agenda because pri…
Understanding Collective Action from Mexican Fishers’ Discourses
In this study we examine how fishers negotiate the tensions and tradeoffs between self-governance and reliance on the state. We address this question using the case of cooperative fishers in Mexico, where the government has historically acted as benefactor to local communities while also positioning itself as the key actor holding the capacity to solve governance problems. We found that framings regarding the scale of the problem influence argume…
How does the World Bank shape global environmental governance agendas for coasts? 50 years of small-scale fisheries aid reveals paradigm shifts over time
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this ‘fish as food’ perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic developmen…
Achieving coordination of decentralized fisheries governance through collaborative arrangements
Rethinking Scale in the Commons by Unsettling Old Assumptions and Asking New Scale Questions
Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons scholarship. This paper reviews the origins and evolution of scalar thinking in commons scholarship in contrast with theories of scale in human geography and political ecology that focus on scale as a relational, power-laden process. Beginning w…
Spatial diversification as a mechanism to adapt to environmental changes in small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries’ actors increasingly face new challenges, including climate driven shifts in marine resource distribution and productivity. Diversification of target species and fishing locations is a key mechanism to adapt to such changes and maintain fisheries livelihoods. Here we explore environmental and institutional factors mediating how patterns of spatial diversification (i.e., utilization of alternative fishing grounds) and target …
Recuperación de los Destinos Turísticos Después de un Desastre
En el ao 2015 se llev a cabo un estudio de resiliencia en la ciudad de Manta usando como herramienta el Scorecard de Resiliencia Turstica para Destino (SRTD). Los resultados de dicho estudio exhibieron debilidades significativas en la capacidad de respuesta del Departamento Turstico del cantn frente a escenarios de crisis que pudiesen afectar el destino. De igual manera se detectaron falencias en el portafolio de estrategias de recuperacin y adap…
Defining Small-Scale Fisheries and Examining the Role of Science in Shaping Perceptions of Who and What Counts
Small-scale fish buyers' trade networks reveal diverse actor types and differential adaptive capacities
Lies build trust”
Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally
Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures
Global Oceans Governance
Increased interest in oceans is leading to new and renewed global governance efforts directed toward ocean issues in areas of food production, biodiversity conservation, industrialization, global environmental change, and pollution. Global oceans governance efforts face challenges and opportunities related to the nature of oceans and to actors involved in, the scale of, and knowledge informing their governance. We review these topics generally an…
Engage key social concepts for sustainability
Social indicators, both mature and emerging, are underused
A Systematic Approach to Institutional Analysis
In 1995, Crawford and Ostrom proposed a grammatical syntax for examining institutional statements (i.e., rules, norms, and strategies) as part of the institutional analysis and development framework. This article constitutes the first attempt at applying the grammatical syntax to code institutional statements using two pieces of U.S. legislation. The authors illustrate how the grammatical syntax can serve as a basis for collecting, presenting, an…
The Challenges of Incorporating Cultural Ecosystem Services into Environmental Assessment
The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries
Using the institutional grammar tool to understand regulatory compliance
What is the relationship between the design of regulations and levels of individual compliance? To answer this question, Crawford and Ostrom's institutional grammar tool is used to deconstruct regulations governing the aquaculture industry in Colorado, USA. Compliance with the deconstructed regulatory components is then assessed based on the perceptions of the appropriateness of the regulations, involvement in designing the regulations, and intri…
Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs
Public policies are structured by policy designs that communicate the key elements, linkages, and underlying logic through which policy objectives are to be realized. This paper operationalizes and integrates core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework, including the institutional grammar, the rule typology, action situations, and levels of decision making, to provide a systematic approach for analyzing policy designs.…
Dissecting Policy Designs
An enduring challenge for the policy and political sciences is valid and reliable depiction of policy designs. One emerging approach for dissecting policy designs is the application of Sue Crawford and Elinor Ostrom's institutional grammar tool. The grammar tool offers a method to identify, systematically, the core elements that comprise policies, including target audiences, expected patterns of behavior, and formal modes of sanctioning for nonco…
How Locally Designed Access and Use Controls Can Prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in a Mexican Small-Scale Fishing Community
The Seri people, a self-governed community of small-scale fishermen in the Gulf of California, Mexico, have ownership rights to fishing grounds where they harvest highly valuable commercial species of bivalves. Outsiders are eager to gain access, and the community has devised a set of rules to allow them in. Because Seri government officials keep all the economic benefits generated from granting this access for themselves, community members creat…
Multi-level governance for large marine commons
Linking multi-level governance to local common-pool resource theory using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Conceptualizing and operationalizing human wellbeing for ecosystem assessment and management
Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Most studies that apply qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) rely on macro-level data, but an increasing number of studies focus on units of analysis at the micro or meso level (i.e., households, firms, protected areas, communities, or local governments). For such studies, qualitative interview data are often the primary source of information. Yet, so far no procedure is available describing how to calibrate qualitative data as fuzzy sets. The …
Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
Multi-level governance for large marine commons
The Emergence of Access Controls in Small-Scale Fishing Commons
Addressing global fisheries overexploitation requires better understanding of how small-scale fishing communities in developing countries limit access to fishing grounds. We analyze the performance of a system based on individual licenses and a common property-rights regime in their ability to generate incentives for self-governance and conservation of fishery resources. Using a qualitative before-after-control-impact approach, we compare two nei…
Emerging frontiers in social-ecological systems research for sustainability of small-scale fisheries
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
Lies build trust”
Cooperative and Noncooperative Strategies for Small-scale Fisheries' Self-governance in the Globalization Era
Basurto, X., A. Bennett, A. Hudson Weaver, S. Rodriguez-Van Dyck, and J.-S. Aceves-Bueno. 2013. Cooperative and noncooperative strategies for small-scale fisheries’ self-governance in the globalization era: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 18(4): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05673-180438
Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization are inconsistent with many of the leg…
Rethinking Scale in the Commons by Unsettling Old Assumptions and Asking New Scale Questions
Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons scholarship. This paper reviews the origins and evolution of scalar thinking in commons scholarship in contrast with theories of scale in human geography and political ecology that focus on scale as a relational, power-laden process. Beginning w…
Looking beyond the fisheries crisis
Resilience and collapse of artisanal fisheries
Biological and Ecological Mechanisms Supporting Marine Self-Governance
Basurto, X. 2008. Biological and ecological mechanisms supporting marine self-governance: the Seri callo de hacha fishery in Mexico. Ecology and Society 13(2): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02587-130220
Governing access and agency
Diverse markers of social and economic difference have been found to influence resource users’ livelihood vulnerability and capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change. However, the role of self-governance forms—cooperative and non-cooperative business models that structure resource-dependent livelihoods—has received limited attention. Here, we address this gap with a 5-yr investigation (2018–2023) into how different cooperative and no…
How Locally Designed Access and Use Controls Can Prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in a Mexican Small-Scale Fishing Community
The Seri people, a self-governed community of small-scale fishermen in the Gulf of California, Mexico, have ownership rights to fishing grounds where they harvest highly valuable commercial species of bivalves. Outsiders are eager to gain access, and the community has devised a set of rules to allow them in. Because Seri government officials keep all the economic benefits generated from granting this access for themselves, community members creat…
Effects of Land Privatisation on the Use of Common-pool Resources of Varying Mobility in the Argentine Chaco
During the last few decades there has been a strong tendency towards privatisation of land tenure to increase protection and sustainable use of natural resources. We assess this approach in the context of land privatisation in a dry region of the Argentine Chaco where low income peasants depend on multiple common-pool resources (CPRs) to survive and where most recently privatisation of land tenure has also included large absentee landowners. We h…
Biological and Ecological Mechanisms Supporting Marine Self-Governance
Basurto, X. 2008. Biological and ecological mechanisms supporting marine self-governance: the Seri callo de hacha fishery in Mexico. Ecology and Society 13(2): 20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02587-130220
Resilience and collapse of artisanal fisheries
Institutional and ecological interplay for successful self-governance of community-based fisheries
Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, K. Daedlow, M. Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, and persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness and resilience in five communities in southern Indiana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
A Systematic Approach to Institutional Analysis
In 1995, Crawford and Ostrom proposed a grammatical syntax for examining institutional statements (i.e., rules, norms, and strategies) as part of the institutional analysis and development framework. This article constitutes the first attempt at applying the grammatical syntax to code institutional statements using two pieces of U.S. legislation. The authors illustrate how the grammatical syntax can serve as a basis for collecting, presenting, an…
Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change
Most powerful analytical tools used in the social sciences are well suited for studying static situations. Static and mechanistic analysis, however, is not adequate to understand the changing world in which we live. In order to adequately address the most pressing social and environmental challenges looming ahead, we need to develop analytical tools for analyzing dynamic situations – particularly institutional change. In this paper, we develop an…
Dissecting Policy Designs
An enduring challenge for the policy and political sciences is valid and reliable depiction of policy designs. One emerging approach for dissecting policy designs is the application of Sue Crawford and Elinor Ostrom's institutional grammar tool. The grammar tool offers a method to identify, systematically, the core elements that comprise policies, including target audiences, expected patterns of behavior, and formal modes of sanctioning for nonco…
Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement
A focus on ecosystem services (ES) is seen as a means for improving decisionmaking. In the research to date, the valuation of the material contributions of ecosystems to human well-being has been emphasized, with less attention to important cultural ES and nonmaterial values. This gap persists because there is no commonly accepted framework for eliciting less tangible values, characterizing their changes, and including them alongside other servic…
Using the institutional grammar tool to understand regulatory compliance
What is the relationship between the design of regulations and levels of individual compliance? To answer this question, Crawford and Ostrom's institutional grammar tool is used to deconstruct regulations governing the aquaculture industry in Colorado, USA. Compliance with the deconstructed regulatory components is then assessed based on the perceptions of the appropriateness of the regulations, involvement in designing the regulations, and intri…
Structuring the Calibration of Qualitative Data as Sets for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Most studies that apply qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) rely on macro-level data, but an increasing number of studies focus on units of analysis at the micro or meso level (i.e., households, firms, protected areas, communities, or local governments). For such studies, qualitative interview data are often the primary source of information. Yet, so far no procedure is available describing how to calibrate qualitative data as fuzzy sets. The …
The Emergence of Access Controls in Small-Scale Fishing Commons
Addressing global fisheries overexploitation requires better understanding of how small-scale fishing communities in developing countries limit access to fishing grounds. We analyze the performance of a system based on individual licenses and a common property-rights regime in their ability to generate incentives for self-governance and conservation of fishery resources. Using a qualitative before-after-control-impact approach, we compare two nei…
Humans and Nature
Ecosystems provide many of the material building blocks for human well-being. Although quantification and appreciation of such contributions have rapidly grown, our dependence upon cultural connections to nature deserves more attention. We synthesize multidisciplinary peer-reviewed research on contributions of nature or ecosystems to human well-being mediated through nontangible connections (such as culture). We characterize these connections on …
Façonner des outils d’analyse pour étudier le changement institutionnel
La plupart des outils d’analyse déployés en sciences sociales sont bien adaptés à l’étude de situations statiques. Néanmoins, les analyses statiques et mécanistes ne sont guère appropriées pour comprendre le monde en perpétuel changement dans lequel nous vivons. Afin de répondre de manière adéquate aux défis sociaux et environnementaux les plus pressants se profilant à l’horizon, il nous faut développer des outils d’analyse dynamiques pour étudie…
Bureaucratic Barriers Limit Local Participatory Governance in Protected Areas in Costa Rica
The importance of local participation in biodiversity governance was recently recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through the incorporation of Indigenous Peoples' and Local Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) as a protected area category. This paper explores what barriers ICCAs might face in their successful implementation within already existing protected area systems. I look at this issue in the…
Emerging frontiers in social-ecological systems research for sustainability of small-scale fisheries
Multi-level governance for large marine commons
Multi-level governance for large marine commons
Looking beyond the fisheries crisis
The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries
Linking multi-level governance to local common-pool resource theory using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis
Resilience, Social-Ecological Rules, and Environmental Variability in a Two-Species Artisanal Fishery
Duer-Balkind, M., K. R. Jacobs, B. Güneralp, and X. Basurto. 2013. Resilience, social-ecological rules, and environmental variability in a two-species artisanal fishery. Ecology and Society 18(4): 50. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05751-180450
The Challenges of Incorporating Cultural Ecosystem Services into Environmental Assessment
Cooperative and Noncooperative Strategies for Small-scale Fisheries' Self-governance in the Globalization Era
Basurto, X., A. Bennett, A. Hudson Weaver, S. Rodriguez-Van Dyck, and J.-S. Aceves-Bueno. 2013. Cooperative and noncooperative strategies for small-scale fisheries’ self-governance in the globalization era: implications for conservation. Ecology and Society 18(4): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05673-180438
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