Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Ostrom, Elinor

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Ostrom, Elinor·2015·Cambridge University Press eBooks

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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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These innovations exemplify governance design principles: institutional arrangements that enable sustainable citizen engagement beyond individual leadership.
“These innovations exemplify what Ostrom (2015) terms “governance design principles”/; institutional arrangements that enable sustainable citizen engagement beyond individual leadership.”
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Conservation biology adopts the approach of identifying common classes of problems and associated solutions, where crises observed across multiple contexts lead to an understanding of multiscaled dynamics yielding solutions that can be tailored to given sociological and ecological contexts.
“This is the approach adopted in conservation biology, where crises observed across multiple contexts (e.g., ecosystem collapse, mismanaged commons) lead to an understanding of multiscaled dynamics yielding solutions that can be tailored to given sociological and ecological contexts (8, 47, 64).”
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Authors: Ostrom, E.
Venue: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-23
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781316423936
OpenAlex: W4253773297
Cited by: 965
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 127 · 2025: 141 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 85 · 2022: 80 · 2021: 117 · 2020: 95 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 87 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
FWCI: 52.59
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 12 d)
Locations: Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Theory and Institutions
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Keywords: commons governance, common-pool resources, tragedy of the commons, institutional analysis, state control of natural resources, privatization, voluntary organizations, meadows, forests, irrigation communities, water rights, fisheries, natural resource policy

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