A central challenge facing the study the environmental governance is the lack of commonunderstanding of important concepts. Critical concepts such as social boundaries, property rights, and resource dependence are selected and measured inconsistently across research projects and field settings, producing results that are difficult to compare. This stymies the accumulation of scientific evidence regarding the most effective ways to address challenging environmental problems. As members of the Social-ecological systems meta-analysis database (SESMAD) project, we have addressed this challenge by developing a repository of variables associated with many of the most important concepts across a range of fields related to environmental governance. In this paper we describe the infrastructure behind the repository, the range of variables it includes, and how it can enable scholars across a range of fields to more systematically select and measure the variables to include in their analyses.

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从概念到比较：社会生态系统中的诊断和测量资源

环境治理研究面临的一个核心挑战是对重要概念缺乏共识。社会边界、财产权和资源依赖等关键概念在研究项目和领域环境中的选择和衡量不一致，产生了难以比较的结果。这阻碍了有关解决具有挑战性的环境问题的最有效方法的科学证据的积累。作为社会生态系统元分析数据库 (SESMAD) 项目的成员，我们通过开发与环境治理相关领域的许多最重要概念相关的变量存储库来应对这一挑战。在本文中，我们描述了存储库背后的基础设施，它包含的变量范围，