Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

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Cambridge University Press, 2015 M09 23
The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom uses institutional analysis to explore different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. In contrast to the proposition of the 'tragedy of the commons' argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.
 

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CHAPTER
1
The metaphorical use of models
7
CHAPTER 2
29
Interdependence independent action and collective action
38
Studying institutions in field settings
55
Communal tenure in high mountain meadows and forests
61
Huerta irrigation institutions
69
Zanjera irrigation communities in the Philippines
82
The polycentric publicenterprise game
133
CHAPTER 5
143
A Sri Lankan fishery
149
Irrigation development projects in Sri Lanka
157
The fragility of Nova Scotian inshore fisheries
173
CHAPTER 6
182
A framework for analyzing institutional choice
192
A challenge to scholarship in the social sciences
214

Similarities among enduring selfgoverning CPR institutions
88
CHAPTER 4
103
The litigation game
111
The entrepreneurship game
127

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