In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for economics. That same year she proposed a framework to integrate both the institutional and ecological dimensions of a pervasive global challenge: achieving sustainability.
Now researchers have put her social-ecological systems theory into practice in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
The result is a map of regional strengths and weaknesses that can help guide fishers, conservationists, and other decision makers as they consider steps to preserve the peninsula’s vital coastal marine ecosystems.
