For critical social-ecological system studies: integrating power and discourses to move beyond the right institutional fit

摘要

For scholars devoted to the analysis of social-ecological systems (SESs), overcoming the 'panacea problem' has been a major challenge. Panaceas or 'overly simplified institutional prescriptions' (Ostrom & Cox 2010, p. 451) have recurrently misguided natural resource policies by proposing one-fit-all remedies to solve complex problems. Ostrom and Cox (2010) defined the panacea problem as a misfit between a set of institutions and SES considering that: (1) the institutional prescriptions are too narrow to fit the range of SESs considered, or (2) they are too broad to be articulated as effective institutions on the ground.