Table 2.

Frequency of theoretical frameworks used in the analyzed studies and the definition of each framework.

Theoretical frameworkFrequencyDefinition
Direct resilience measurement5Focused on system resilience, drawing on a set of resilience papers like Carpenter et al. 2001, Gunderson and Holling 2001, Holling 2001, Folke 2006
Energy or land use model3Focused on land use, land change, and spatially explicit data (Turner 1994, Lambin et al. 2001)
Ecosystem services3Focused on services provided by ecosystems and their relationship to human well-being (MEA 2005)
Risk and vulnerability assessment7Focused on understanding system vulnerability, drawing on seminal framework papers like Turner et al. 2003
Institutional analysis and development1Focused on institutional analysis (Ostrom 2011)