In extensive work on such topics as urban governance, groundwater, irrigation systems, forestry resources, and development policy, we and our many colleagues have found the IAD framework especially useful as a foundation for microanalysis of a diverse range of social dilemmas (Blomquist and deLeon 2011, Bushouse 2011, Heikkila et al. 2011, Oakerson and Parks 2011, Ostrom 2011).