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Tragedy in the Commons

Author : Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307361301

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Tragedy in the Commons by Alison Loat,Michael MacMillan Pdf

Former Members of Parliament from Canada's House of Commons discuss their political careers and Canadian politics in general is examined.

The Question of the Commons

Author : Bonnie J. McCay,James M. Acheson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816548033

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The Question of the Commons by Bonnie J. McCay,James M. Acheson Pdf

This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The Tragedy of the Commons" that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first cross-cultural test of Hardin's argument and argues that, while tragedies of the commons do occur under some circumstances, local institutions have proven resilient and responsive to the problems of communal resource use.

Governing the Commons

Author : Elinor Ostrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107569782

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Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom Pdf

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

Protecting the Commons

Author : Joanna Burger
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110314536

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Protecting the Commons by Joanna Burger Pdf

Commons—lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species—are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs. Protecting the Commons provides an important analytical framework for understanding commons issues and for designing policies to deal with them. The product of a symposium convened by the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to mark the 30th anniversary of Garrett Hardin's seminal essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” the book brings together leading scholars and researchers on commons issues to offer both conceptual background and analysis of the evolving scientific understanding on commons resources. The book: gives a concise update on commons use and scholarship offers eleven case studies of commons, examined through the lens provided by leading commons theorist Elinor Ostrom provides a review of tools such as Geographic Information Systems that are useful for decision-making examines environmental justice issues relevant to commons Contributors include Alpina Begossi, William Blomquist, Joanna Burger, Tim Clark, Clark Gibson, Michael Gelobter, Michael Gochfeld, Bonnie McCay, Pamela Matson, Richard Norgaard, Elinor Ostrom, David Policansky, Jeffrey Richey, Jose Sarukhan, and Edella Schlager. Protecting the Commons represents a landmark study of commons issues that offers analysis and background from economic, legal, social, political, geological, and biological perspectives. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned with commons and commons resources, including students and scholars of environmental policy and economics, public health, international affairs, and related fields.

Collective Behavior

Author : The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309373500

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Collective Behavior by The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Pdf

Collective Behavior is the summary of the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Collective Behavior. Participants were divided into fourteen interdisciplinary research teams. The teams spent nine hours over two days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. The composition of the teams was intentionally diverse, to encourage the generation of new approaches by combining a range of different types of contributions. The teams included researchers from science, engineering, and medicine, as well as representatives from private and public funding agencies, universities, businesses, journals, and the science media. Researchers represented a wide range of experience - from postdoc to those well established in their careers - from a variety of disciplines that included science and engineering, medicine, physics, biology, economics, and behavioral science. The teams needed to address the challenge of communicating and working together from a diversity of expertise and perspectives as they attempted to solve a complicated, interdisciplinary problem in a relatively short time. This report highlights the presentations of the event and includes the team reports and pre-meeting materials.

Managing the Commons, Second Edition

Author : John A. Baden,Douglas S. Noonan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0253211530

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Managing the Commons, Second Edition by John A. Baden,Douglas S. Noonan Pdf

Garrett Hardin's seminal essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" appeared in 1968 and has been at the center of the debate on commonly owned ground or resources such as Western public grazing or the oceans. This is the second edition of a book exploring the issues raised in Hardin's essay. As scarce resources are increasingly strained. It is ever more crucial to identify those resources which are held in common and are therefore prone to "tragic" waste and abuses. The essay in this volume focus on alternate institutional approaches to managing these resources to prevent such tragedy.

Tragedy of the Commons

Author : Wuteh Vakunta
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956551521

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Tragedy of the Commons by Wuteh Vakunta Pdf

"Vakuntas Tragedy of the Commons is a seminal piece of fictional writing that delves into the crevices of contemporary society. Divided into thematic realms, this book of poems is an awakening call for humanity to waken from slumber and pay heed to seemingly trivial issues of our times. The poet skillfully weaves into poetic form existential matters that human beings tend to gloss over. Readers will be at ease with the commonplace lexical choices that seem to be the poets stock-in-trade." - Dr. Peter Ngwafu Ajongwa, Albany State University

Toward a Political Economy of the Commons

Author : Cai, Meina,Murtazashvili, Ilia,Brick Murtazashvili, Jennifer,Salahodjaev, Raufhon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800374324

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Toward a Political Economy of the Commons by Cai, Meina,Murtazashvili, Ilia,Brick Murtazashvili, Jennifer,Salahodjaev, Raufhon Pdf

Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.

The Tragedy of the Commodity

Author : Stefano B. Longo,Rebecca Clausen,Brett Clark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813565798

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The Tragedy of the Commodity by Stefano B. Longo,Rebecca Clausen,Brett Clark Pdf

Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem. In a critique of the classic theory “the tragedy of the commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin, the authors move beyond simplistic explanations—such as unrestrained self-interest or population growth—to argue that it is the commodification of aquatic resources that leads to the depletion of fisheries and the development of environmentally suspect means of aquaculture. To illustrate this argument, the book features two fascinating case studies—the thousand-year history of the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean and the massive Pacific salmon fishery. Longo, Clausen, and Clark describe how new fishing technologies, transformations in ships and storage capacities, and the expansion of seafood markets combined to alter radically and permanently these crucial ecosystems. In doing so, the authors underscore how the particular organization of social production contributes to ecological degradation and an increase in the pressures placed upon the ocean. The authors highlight the historical, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape how we interact with the larger biophysical world. A path-breaking analysis of overfishing, The Tragedy of the Commodity yields insight into issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change.

The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty

Author : Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781487537616

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The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty by Franklin Obeng-Odoom Pdf

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the "tragedy of the commons" and the "crisis of capitalism" have done little to explain this concentration of land, encourage solution-building to solve resource depletion, or address our current socio-ecological crisis. The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty presents a new explanation, vision, and action plan based on the idea of commoning the land. The book argues that by commoning the land, rather than privatising it, we can develop the foundation for prosperity without destructive growth and address both local and global challenges. Making the land the most fundamental priority of all commons does not only give hope, it also opens the doors to a new world in which economy, environment, and society are decolonised and liberated.

Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good

Author : C. Bonanni,F. Lépineux,J. Roloff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230354890

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Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship and the Common Good by C. Bonanni,F. Lépineux,J. Roloff Pdf

An exploration of the interplay between social responsibility, entrepreneurship and the common good which is organized into four sections: business and the common good; educating responsible entrepreneurs; corporate social responsibility (CSR) challenges and the common good; and CSR and entrepreneurship in emerging economies

The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

Author : Erik Nordman
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781642831559

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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom by Erik Nordman Pdf

In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the only way to stem the tide was to impose restrictions on how we used resources, such as land, water, and fish, from either the free market or the government. This notion was upended by Elinor Ostrom, whose work to show that regular people could sustainably manage their community resources eventually won her the Nobel Prize. Ostrom’s revolutionary proposition fundamentally changed the way we think about environmental governance. In The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, author Erik Nordman brings to life Ostrom’s brilliant mind. Half a century ago, she was rejected from doctoral programs because she was a woman; in 2009, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Her research challenged the long-held dogma championed by Garrett Hardin in his famous 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” which argued that only market forces or government regulation can prevent the degradation of common pool resources. The concept of the “Tragedy of the Commons” was built on scarcity and the assumption that individuals only act out of self-interest. Ostrom’s research proved that people can and do act in collective interest, coming from a place of shared abundance. Ostrom’s ideas about common resources have played out around the world, from Maine lobster fisheries, to ancient waterways in Spain, to taxicabs in Nairobi. In writing The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, Nordman traveled extensively to interview community leaders and stakeholders who have spearheaded innovative resource-sharing systems, some new, some centuries old. Through expressing Ostrom’s ideas and research, he also reveals the remarkable story of her life. Ostrom broke barriers at a time when women were regularly excluded from academia and her research challenged conventional thinking. Elinor Ostrom proved that regular people can come together to act sustainably—if we let them. This message of shared collective action is more relevant than ever for solving today’s most pressing environmental problems.

Parks and Carrying Capacity

Author : Robert E. Manning
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597266154

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Parks and Carrying Capacity by Robert E. Manning Pdf

How much can we use the environment without spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase. Parks and Carrying Capacity represents a comprehensive assessment of the issue, as it: • offers a historical and conceptual treatment of carrying capacity • describes and illustrates research approaches for assessing carrying capacity, including qualitative and quantitative surveys, normative theory and methods, visual research approaches, trade-off analysis, and simulation modeling • examines management alternatives for limiting the environmental and social impacts of visitor use • considers the broader question of environmental management and how the issue of carrying capacity can be applied more generally • discusses how the theory and methods associated with managing the carrying capacity of parks and protected areas might be extended to other areas of environmental management The book includes a series of case studies that describe research programsdesigned to support analysis and management of carrying capacity at eight diverse units of the U.S. National Park System, and an additional case study that explores how the foundational components of carrying capacity (formulating indicators and standards, monitoring, and adaptive management) are being applied in an increasing number of environmental and natural resources fields to address the growing urgency of sustainability. Parks and Carrying Capacity is an important new work for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers in outdoor recreation, park planning and management, and natural resource conservation and management, as well as for professional planners and managers involved with park and outdoor recreation related agencies and nongovernmental organizations.

Unsettling the Commons

Author : Craig Fortier
Publisher : Semaphore
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1894037979

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Unsettling the Commons by Craig Fortier Pdf

"Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for "the commons" within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim "the commons" on stolen land. Travelling back in history to show the ways in which radical left movements have often either erased or come into clear conflict with Indigenous practices of sovereignty and self-determination--all in the name of the "struggle for the commons," the book argues that there are multiple commons or conceptualizations of how land, relationships, and resources are shared, produced, consumed, and distributed in any given society. As opposed to the liberal politics of recognition, a political practice of unsettling and a recognition of the incommensurability of political goals that claim access to space/territory on stolen land is put forward as a more desirable way forward."--]cProvided by publisher.

The Drama of the Commons

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309082501

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The Drama of the Commons by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change Pdf

The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes the reality of human-environment interactions in special situations. Research over the past thirty years has helped clarify how human motivations, rules governing access to resources, the structure of social organizations, and the resource systems themselves interact to determine whether or not the many dramas of the commons end happily. In this book, leaders in the field review the evidence from several disciplines and many lines of research and present a state-of-the-art assessment. They summarize lessons learned and identify the major challenges facing any system of governance for resource management. They also highlight the major challenges for the next decade: making knowledge development more systematic; understanding institutions dynamically; considering a broader range of resources (such as global and technological commons); and taking into account the effects of social and historical context. This book will be a valuable and accessible introduction to the field for students and a resource for advanced researchers.