1. Theory and methods in the study of institutions (Fiona Nunan) 2. Using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework to link collective action, behavioural change and social-environmental outcomes in conservation policy (Tanya Hayes and Felipe Murtinho) 3. Applying the Institutional Grammar in the Study of Natural Resource Governance (Saba Siddiki and Edella Schlager) 4. Measuring institutions in quantitative field research (Graham Epstein) 5.Institutional Complexity in Linked Socio-Ecological Systems - An Approach to Studying Multi-Level, Cross-Scalar Contexts (Candace K. May) 6. Participatory modelling of institutional dynamics: Navigating epistemological challenges in fuzzy cognitive mapping (Jelto Makris, Michael Kriegl, Ben Nagel and Achim Schlüter)
7. Practical considerations for network analysis in research and decision-making: drawing from diverse approaches for grounded insights (Rebecca. A. Riggs, James. D. Langston and Mas Davino Sayaza)
8. Deconstructing Local Institutions in a Forest Landscape: An Ethnographic Case Study from India (Sumana Datta) 9. Staying with the trouble: Experimenting with a socio-technical approach to researching water governance (Tavengwa Chitata, Frances Cleaver and Jeltsje Kemerink-Seyoum) 10. From rules to practices: Assembling natural resource governance in the Peruvian Amazon (José Carlos Orihuela) 11. Navigating rules of ‘the range’ beyond the commons: Focusing on relationality and process in China and Kenya (Palden Tsering and Ryan R. Unks) 12. Conclusion (Fiona Nunan)