ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses management approaches and their focus on effectiveness. It critically assesses the system analogy. It then presents Elinor Ostrom’s framework to analyze socio-ecological systems, its evolution and its limits. A revised characterization of governance systems within Ostrom’s framework is proposed, which takes into consideration the variables identified in the international environmental regimes literature and particularly within the International Environmental Agreements Database, the Oslo-Seattle Project and the International Regimes Database.
