A appropriate bottom-up rule system can support the sustainability of common-pool resources such as forests and fisheries. The process that leads to the developments of such institutional settings requires the considerations of multiple social, physical, and institutional factors over long time...

At a time of increased negative effects of climate change on human systems such as extreme events, environmental migration and refugee crises, it seems especially pressing to understand what role — if any — pressures on renewable resources and ecosystem services play in conflict occurrence...