IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/iamo10/90797.html

Implications of External Validity for Research on Polycentric and Complex Adaptive Systems

Author

Listed:
  • Coleman, Eric A.

Abstract

Much recent research has examined the implications of policy analysis for complex adaptive social-ecological systems. System complexity comes from both the natural environment as well as complex institutional arrangements that humans use to manage and regulate such systems. Such research has systematically investigated how the interaction of a host of variables relate to some evaluation criteria. Many scholars argue that a deep understanding of the social-ecological systems, however, comes at the expense of externally valid inferences to other systems. In this paper I argue that having a nuanced understanding of the social-ecological system actually helps one to understand which types of policy domains an analysis might be generalized.

Suggested Citation

  • Coleman, Eric A., "undated". "Implications of External Validity for Research on Polycentric and Complex Adaptive Systems," Papers 90797, 2010 IAMO Forum, June 16-18, 2010, Halle (Saale), Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iamo10:90797
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.90797
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/90797/files/Coleman_IAMO_Forum%202010.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.90797?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:iamo10:90797. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iamoode.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.