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REFERENCES

Intro

Introductory SNA

Banathy, B. 1996. Designing social systems in a changing world. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Must read! Borgatti, S.P., M.G. Everett, and J.C. Johnson. 2013. Analyzing Social Networks. Sage, Los Angeles. Companion website
Knoke, D. and S. Yang. 2007. Social Network Analysis, Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences. Sage Publications, NY.
Prell, C.  2012. Social Network Analysis: History, Theory, and Methodology. Sage Publications, NY.
Wasserman, S. and K. Faust. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
 

Software

SNA Software

70+ List of Software for Social Network Analysis. Huisman, M., V.Duijn, and  A.J. Marijtje. 2011. A reader's guide to SNA software. In J. Scott and P.J. Carrington (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis (pp. 578-600). London: SAGE.
 

Gephi: Open Graph Viz Platform with Timeline. Paris, France. Gephi Consortium.

Igraph library. 2003-2012. Use link here to get C or Python versions, see R below for direct integration option. Gábor Csárdi  and Tamás Nepusz.
 
NetLogo - multi-agent programmable modeling environment. Evanston, IL. The Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and Computer-Based Modeling. Northwestern University.
 
NetworkX. Python modules for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks. Hagberg, A., D. Shult, and P. Swart. 2013.
 
NodeXL (from CodePlex) MS Excel-based node-edge list-to-graph tool. Social Media Research Foundation. 2013.
 
Pajek (Spider) - Program for Large Network Analysis. Short Course! Batagelj, V. and A. Mrvar. Pajek Wiki.
R-Labs. The I-graph package automatically loads into R per my tips provided in the Materials tab. Social Network Analysis Group @ Stanford.
UCINET for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis (NetDraw included). Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies. See team's new book in the Intro tab.
Borgatti, S.P., M.G. Everett, and L.C. Freeman.  2002.

SNA DATASETS FOR SOFTWARE PRACTICE (most software are compatible with these files)

Gephi examples from wiki.gephi.org of Gephi Consortium. Gephi: Open Graph Viz Platform. Paris, France.

GrandJean, M. Introduction to Network Visualization with GEPHI (7 step get started blog)

Hatfield, S. Gephi Practicum. TAMU.

Newman, M. 2013 Network Datasets and other sources website. University of Michigan.

Pajek examples that come with Batagelj, V. and A. Mrvar. Pajek (Spider) - Program for Large Network Analysis.

Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection. To study online sources of giant connected datasets.

UCINet examples that come with Borgatti, S.P., M.G. Everett, and L.C. Freeman.  2002. UCINET for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis (NetDraw included). Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies.

 

E-Resources

Online SNA Books and Tutorials

Adamic, L.A. and E.Adar. How to search a social network. Social Networks, 27(3):187-203, July 2005.

Adamic,  L.A. and Bernardo A. Huberman. Information dynamics in a networked world. In Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, and Zoltan Toroczkai, editors, Complex Networks, pages 371- 398. Springer, 2004.

Easley, D. and J. Kleinberg. 2010. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press.

Popular! Hanneman, R.A., and M. Riddle. 2005. Introduction to Social Network Methods. University of California, Riverside.
 
de Nooy, W., Mrvar, A., and Batagelj, V. 2011. Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek: Revised and Expanded Second Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Online SNA Courses

Adamic, Lada. Next offering 10/7/2013! Coursera: Social Network Analysis. University of Michigan Free Online Course.
 
See Pajek online book above to also access the related Pajek Short Course!

SNA Online Tools

NetLearn: Interactive demonstrations of network concepts
 
UC-Denver. Partner Tool - Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Community Networks

Applied

SNA in Resource Management

Bodin, O. and B. Crona. 2009. The role of social networks in natural resource governance: What relational patterns make a difference? Global Environmental Change 19 (2009): 366–374.
Must read! Bodin O. and C. Prell. eds. 2011. Social Networks and Natural Resource Management: Uncovering the Social Fabric of Environmental Governance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Cumming, G.S. 2011. Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Dopplet, B., M. Scurlock, C. Frissell, and J. Karr. 1993. Entering the Watershed: A new Approach to Save America’s River Ecosystems. The Pacific Rivers Council. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Fabiani, D. and T.F. Buss. Eds. 2008. Reengineering Community Development for the 21st Century: Transformational Trends in Governance and Democracy. M.E. Sharpe. Washington, D.C.
Jedd, Theresa. 2013. Accountability and Legitimacy in Networked Governance: Transboundary Forest Conservation.  Colorado State University Press: Fort Collins.
Rodela, R. 2012. The social learning discourse: Trends, themes and interdisciplinary influences in current research. Environmental Science & Policy, 25 (January 2013): 157-166.

Adaptive Co-Management

Armitage, D., F. Berkes, and N. Doubleday. eds. 2007.  Adaptive Co-management: Collaboration, learning and multi-level governance. UBC Press, Vancouver, Canada.
Armitage, D. and R. Plummer. eds. 2010. Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Bourget, L. ed. 2011. Converging Waters: Integrating Collaborative Modeling with Participatory Processes to Make Water Resources Decisions. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources (Maass-White Series), Alexandria, Virginia.
Daniell, K. 2012. Co-Engineering and Participatory Water Management: Organisational Challenges for Water Governance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Daniels, S. and G.B.Walker. 2001. Working through Environmental Conflict: The Collaborative Learning Approach.  Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT.
Guiso, L., and P. Sapienza, and L. Zingales. 2010. Civic Capital as the Missing Link. In Benhabib, J. A. Bixin, and M.O. Jackson. eds. 2010. Social Economics Handbook.
Holling, C.S. 1978. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and management. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Holzmann, V.  2013. A meta-analysis of brokering knowledge in project management. International Journal of Project Management 31: 2–13.
Pahl-Wostl, C.,  P. Kabat, and J. Moltgen. 2008. Adaptive and integrated water management: Coping with complexity and uncertainty. Springer, Berlin. 
Pinkerton, E. 1989. Attaining better fisheries management through co-management: prospects, problems and propositions. Pages 3-33 in E. Pinkerton editor. Co-operative management of local fisheries: new directions in improved management and community development. UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Plummer, R. and D. Armitage. 2007. Charting the New Territory of Adaptive Co-management: A Delphi Study. Ecology and Society, 12(2):10.
Plummer, R. and J. FitzGibbon. 2007b.  Chapter 2. Social Learning and Social Capital. In Armitage, D., F. Berkes, and N. Doubleday. eds. 2007.  Adaptive Co-management: Collaboration, learning and multi-level governance. UBC Press, Vancouver, Canada.
Plummer, R., B. Crona, D. Armitage, P. Olsson, M. Tengo, and O. Yundina. 2012. Adaptive Comanagement: A Systematic Review and Analysis.  Ecology and Society 17(2): 11.
The Resilience Alliance. 2012. Adaptive Co-management.

Common Pool Resource Concepts

Berkes, F. 1989. Common property resources: ecology and community-based sustainable development. Belhaven Press, London, UK.
Freeman, D.M. 1992. Choice against Choice: constructing a policy-assessing sociology for social development. University Press of Colorado: Boulder, CO.
Freeman, D.M. 2010. Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin water commons. University Press of Colorado: Boulder, CO.
Ostrom, E. 1990.  Governing the Commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Ostrom, E. 2001. Reformulating the Commons. In Burger, J. et al. Protecting the Commons.
Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Pratt, A. 2010. Federal Bureaucracy and Locality: A Case Study of the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users’ Association’s Management of its Water Commons. Colorado Water Institute Special Report 18. Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Resilience

Gunderson, L.H.  and C.S. Holling (eds). 2002. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Holling, C.S. 1973. Resilience and stability of ecological systems.  Annual Review of Ecological Systems, 4, 1-23.
The Resilience Alliance. 2012. Resilience
Walker, B.H., and D. Salt. 2012. Resilience Practice: Building capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Walker, B.H. 2012b.  A Commentary on “Resilience and Water Governance: Adaptive Governance in the Columbia River Basin”. Ecology and Society 17(4):29.

Collaboratives

SNA Collaboratives

International Network for Social Network Analysis - SOCNET Listserv, Connections Journal, Data Exchange Network and more excellent resources for SNA researchers

Colorado Collaboratives

Alliance for Sustainable Colorado - advancing sustainability through collaboration
Coalition for the Upper South Platte - collaboratively manages the watershed, weeds, and wildfire risks from the SP headwaters SW of Denver to Strontia Springs Reservoir
Collaborative Conservation Learning Network (CCLN) - ideas, connections to help worldwide collaborative conservation efforts become effective and sustainable
CO Nonprofit Collaboration Search
CO Water Innovation Cluster - innovation in water trading, filtration, use and conservation for water resource and technology sector
CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network
CoCoSTEM - motivating girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
Eagle River Watershed Council - to preserve and enhance the natural values of the watershed to leave a conservation legacy
Western Colorado Landscape Collaborative - winner of the 2013 Colorado Collaboration Award recognizing excellence and innovation in non-profit partnerships