Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Author
Ostrom, Elinor
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Year
2015
Page
294
ISBN
9781107569782,1107569788
File Type
pdf
File Size
15.7 MiB

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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