Qualitative Methods of the Socioeconomic Research and their Application within the Economics of the Environmental Protection Cover Image

Kvalitativně orientované metody socioekonomického výzkumu a jejich využití v ekonomii životního prostředí
Qualitative Methods of the Socioeconomic Research and their Application within the Economics of the Environmental Protection

Author(s): Jan Slavík, Lenka Slavíková, Tereza Šímová
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: qualitative methods; analytic narrative; institutional analysis; environmental protection

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes two evolving qualitative methods of socioeconomic research – the analytic narrative conceptualized by R. Bates and his colleagues and the institutional analysis developed by E. Ostrom – and introduces their pilot application within the field of the environmental protection in the Central European dimension. Authors of the paper defend these methods as consistent approaches that can be applied next to the traditional neoclassical quantitative analysis, especially when the collective decision making about the allocation of public or common-pool resources are in the center of the research agenda.

  • Issue Year: 59/2011
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 823-840
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Czech