Table 3.

Systemic Research Design—adapted from the typology of methods for comparative case study research in water governance, based on Pahl-Wostl and Lebel (2009) [42].

Systemic Research Design	Structure	Social networks	Diagrams of actor relationships (e.g., power, influence, authority, communication)
		Organisational	Diagrams of responsibilities and accountability relationships compared
		Systems	Diagrams of governance and other system components
	Dynamics	Transitions	Set of variables about same location at different times (e.g., reform process)
		Pathways	Pathways of change in different locations
	Context	Questions	Responses to a common set of analytical questions
		Narrative	Integrated descriptions of a governance regime
	Indicator Based	Checklist	Presence/absence of governance attributes
		Scoring	Ordinal scale measure of governance attributes