| Description | Number of Items | Number of Passages |
| Development of adaptive capacity | 24 | 36 |
| Social–ecological resilience | 18 | 25 |
| Sustainable resource use | 16 | 21 |
| Enhanced efficiency and effectiveness of management | 17 | 20 |
| Enhanced livelihoods | 8 | 15 |
| Creative ideas for solving problems | 8 | 15 |
| Devolution of power | 5 | 7 |
| Increased collaboration | 6 | 6 |
| Broader-based legitimization for management | 5 | 6 |
| Enhanced communication and negotiations | 4 | 5 |
| Resolution of conflict | 5 | 5 |
| Increased participation and engagement by stakeholders or participatory decision making | 5 | 5 |
| Increased income | 4 | 4 |
| Increased equity in decision making | 4 | 4 |
| Increased equity in distribution of benefits and costs | 3 | 4 |
| Increased self-confidence and skills of locals | 4 | 4 |
| Increased awareness of challenges and current flaws and resource health | 4 | 4 |
| Increased resource health | 3 | 4 |
| Changes in perceptions and actions | 3 | 3 |
| Increased equity in access to resource | 3 | 3 |
| New or modified institutional arrangements | 3 | 3 |
| Improvements in human and social capital | 2 | 2 |
| Better defined rights and responsibilities | 2 | 2 |
| Reduced vulnerability | 2 | 2 |
| Linking of knowledge | 2 | 2 |
| Reduced transaction costs | 1 | 1 |
| Reduced resource health | 1 | 1 |
| Illegitimate decisions | 1 | 1 |
| Creation of conditions for management | 1 | 1 |
| Increased capacity in community | 1 | 1 |
| Promotion of social and cultural values | 1 | 1 |
| Overcome capacity challenges | 1 | 1 |
| Modification of unsustainable social–ecological feedbacks | 1 | 1 |
| Increase in protectionist practices that disadvantage vulnerable users | 1 | 1 |
| Agreed-upon sanctions | 1 | 1 |
| New cooperative undertakings beyond specific issue | 1 | 1 |
| Building of memory | 1 | 1 |
| Strengthened institutions | 1 | 1 |
| Community cohesion | 1 | 1 |
| Resource management plans | 1 | 1 |