This research investigates how institutions—both formal and informal rules, along with norms and shared strategies—address collective action challenges in managing common-pool resources. Specifically, I study cooperation and coordination challenges, including overgrazing in pastoral systems, and upstream-downstream asymmetries and infrastructure provision issues in surface irrigation systems, which can lead to conflicts and inequalities. As institutions often evolve over time, this aspect of work analyzes archival data to determine (a) how community adaptive capacity is shaped by institutional and contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic, ecological, and demographic characteristics) and (b) how community rules and norms have evolved in response to environmental and social shocks. I have applied this research to both irrigation systems in India and pastoral systems in the Basque region.
Related grants: Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks (Co-PI)
Related selected publications:
Related grants: Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks (Co-PI)
Related selected publications:
- Vallury, S., Abbott, J. K., Shin, H. C., & Anderies, J. M. (2020). Sustaining coupled irrigation infrastructures: multiple instruments for multiple dilemmas. Ecological economics, 178, 106793.
- Vallury, S., & Leonard, B. (2022). Canals, climate, and corruption: The provisioning of public infrastructure under uncertainty. Economics & Politics, 34(1), 221-252.
- Shin, H. C., Vallury, S., Abbott, J. K., Anderies, J. M., & David, J. Y. (2022). Understanding the effects of institutional diversity on irrigation systems dynamics. Ecological Economics, 191, 107221.
