Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Canto Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107569788 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Frey, Kyklos"Students of common property resource regimes will find much of great interest in the volume." Barry C. The book makes fascinating reading, particularly as it is well written." Bruno S. "In this ambitious, provocative, and very useful book, Ostrom combines a lucid theoretical framework with a series of diverse and richly detailed case studies she tightly reviews and critiques extant models of cooperation and collective action and argues powerfully that communities of actors are sometimes able to maintain a common resource for long periods of time without outside intervention." Contemporary Sociology"Ostrom's book is an important contribution to the problems of common property resources, that is, the lack of well-defined property rights over a certain resource. Brady, Southern Economic Journal"This is the most influential book in the last decade on thinking about the commons. Field, Land Economics"A classic by one of the best-known thinkers on communities and
Exceptionally valuable book on cooperative resource management Governing the Commons is an excellent exploration of how people can work together to manage shared, limited resources. It is a bit of a heavy read, but I found it very worthwhile. One of its basic points is that the Garret Hardin "Tragedy of the Commons" idea is not inevitable. There are many examples of communities setting up s. Five Stars good book
Dr Ostrom uses institutional analysis to explore different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. 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. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.. 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. A