How do the social and ecological attributes of social-ecological systems enable outcomes of those systems? The high concentration of lake organizations in northern USA enables us to study social, institutional, and ecological attributes that correlate with performance of common pool resource governance—institutional fit. In the summer of 2019, we performed an in-depth comparative study of thirty-one lake organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin using data collected through semi-structured interviews, websites, and agency databases. We systematically compared the cases using crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis, specifically analyzing how the eight Ostrom institutional design principles lead to different outcomes for the lake social-ecological systems. The Ostrom institutional design principles played an important role in SES governance outcomes where there was low-resource dependence. We found that different combinations of design principles, social, and ecological conditions led to the same lake SES outcomes—equifinality. Although we expected that there were no panaceas for lake governance, we were surprised by the high diversity in organizational goals and the relative low diversity of rules in use.

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志愿者组织中的社会生态制度契合：美国威斯康星州维拉斯县湖泊管理组织的研究

社会生态系统的社会和生态属性如何促成这些系统的结果？美国北部湖泊组织的高度集中使我们能够研究与公共池资源治理绩效相关的社会、制度和生态属性——制度契合。2019 年夏天，我们使用通过半结构化访谈、网站和机构数据库收集的数据，对威斯康星州维拉斯县的 31 个湖泊组织进行了深入比较研究。我们使用清晰的定性比较分析系统地比较了这些案例，具体分析了八项奥斯特罗姆制度设计原则如何导致湖泊社会生态系统的不同结果。Ostrom 制度设计原则在资源依赖程度较低的 SES 治理结果中发挥了重要作用。我们发现设计原则、社会和生态条件的不同组合导致了相同的湖泊 SES 结果——均等性。虽然我们预计湖泊治理没有灵丹妙药，但我们对组织目标的高度多样性和使用规则的相对较低的多样性感到惊讶。