Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
These include the embryonic idea of treating the commons as a new area of inviolability, sacredness and transcendence.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
she sought to identify ten subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of successful self-organization of efforts to achieve a sustainable socio-ecological systems by the communities involved. Summarized in a simple form the ten variables were:
The size of resource system – a moderate territorial size is most conducive to self-organization.
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The size of resource system – a moderate territorial size is most conducive to self-organization.
The pr... See more
Wyn Grant • Elinor Ostrom’s work on Governing The Commons: An Appreciation - LSE Review of Books
In undisturbed ecosystems and traditional cultures, the average individual, species, or population, left to its own devices, behaves in ways that serve and stabilize the whole. These systems and others are self-regulatory.