KVALITATIVNĚ ORIENTOVANÉ METÓDY SOCIOEKONOMICKÉHO VÝZKUMU A JEJICH VYUŽITÍ V EKONOMII ŽIVOTNÍHO PROSTŘEDÍ

The paper describes two evolving qualitative methods of socioeconomic research – the analytic narrative conceptualized by R. Bates and his colleagues and the institutional analysis developed by E. Ostrom – and introduces their pilot application within the field of the environmental protection in the Central European dimension. Authors of the paper defend these methods as consistent approaches that can be applied next to the traditional neoclassical quantitative analysis, especially when the collective decision making about the allocation of public or common-pool resources are in the centre of the research agenda.