Although the “tragedy of the commons” is common currency in popular accounts of problems arising in human-environment relations, empirical research has shown that common-property systems do not always lead to tragic outcomes. Moreover, systems of private property or public property, often proposed as solutions to the tragedy of the commons, can generate tragedies of their own that are equally severe. The challenge we face is to develop strategies for avoiding these tragedies featuring structures of property rights that are most likely to lead to sustainable outcomes in specific situations ranging from local communities reliant on the harvest of renewable resources to the global system facing the prospect of climate change. Succe...
The land is a precious resource, vital for humanity’s survival, yet it is under threat from deforest...
Land is becoming increasingly scarce relative to the demands of the global economy; a problem signi...
Environmental property interests will inevitably be fundamental components of any ‘environmental eco...
Although the “tragedy of the commons” is common currency in popular accounts of problems arising in ...
Just like climate hazards, land degradation is the result of human activities that overexploit ecosy...
Two decades have passed since Garrett Hardin's influential paper, "The Tragedy of the Commons," app...
We use rules to decide what to do with scarce resources. Questions about rules matter insofar as we ...
As collapses and crises involving ecological systems, economic and financial management and internat...
Today, there is growing recognition that land management needs to focus on the sustainable use of la...
Hardin's Tragedy o f the Commons model predicts the eventual overexploi-tation or degradation o...
The "global commons" is a metaphor. Metaphorically, all of the earth's resources are held in common ...
Garrett Hardin\u27s classic description of the tragedy of the commons tells us that all environmenta...
Property rights are, I argue, the single largest legal limitation on our ability to respond effectiv...
Even though a raft of literature stresses the significance of public open space (POS) conservation w...
Institutions for collective action and systems of property rights shape how people use natural resou...
The land is a precious resource, vital for humanity’s survival, yet it is under threat from deforest...
Land is becoming increasingly scarce relative to the demands of the global economy; a problem signi...
Environmental property interests will inevitably be fundamental components of any ‘environmental eco...
Although the “tragedy of the commons” is common currency in popular accounts of problems arising in ...
Just like climate hazards, land degradation is the result of human activities that overexploit ecosy...
Two decades have passed since Garrett Hardin's influential paper, "The Tragedy of the Commons," app...
We use rules to decide what to do with scarce resources. Questions about rules matter insofar as we ...
As collapses and crises involving ecological systems, economic and financial management and internat...
Today, there is growing recognition that land management needs to focus on the sustainable use of la...
Hardin's Tragedy o f the Commons model predicts the eventual overexploi-tation or degradation o...
The "global commons" is a metaphor. Metaphorically, all of the earth's resources are held in common ...
Garrett Hardin\u27s classic description of the tragedy of the commons tells us that all environmenta...
Property rights are, I argue, the single largest legal limitation on our ability to respond effectiv...
Even though a raft of literature stresses the significance of public open space (POS) conservation w...
Institutions for collective action and systems of property rights shape how people use natural resou...
The land is a precious resource, vital for humanity’s survival, yet it is under threat from deforest...
Land is becoming increasingly scarce relative to the demands of the global economy; a problem signi...
Environmental property interests will inevitably be fundamental components of any ‘environmental eco...