Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons

Description

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources. Such frameworks include those related to Institutional Analysis and Development, Social-Ecological Systems, and Polycentricity, among others. The book aggregates and analyses these frameworks to lay a foundation for exploring how they apply according to scholars across a wide range of disciplines. It includes an exploration of the unique problems arising in different disciplines of commons study, including natural resources (forests, oceans, water, energy, ecosystems, etc), economics, law, governance, the humanities, and intellectual property. It shows how the analytical frameworks discussed early in the book facilitate interdisciplinarity within commons scholarship. This interdisciplinary approach within the context of analytical frameworks helps facilitate a more complete understanding of the similarities and differences faced by commons resource users and managers, the usefulness of the commons lens as an analytical tool for studying resource management problems, and the best mechanisms by which to formulate policies aimed at addressing such problems. Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1 Introduction: commons analytical frameworks and case studies • Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom and Dan Cole Part I: Theoretical frameworks and alternative lenses for analyzing commons 2 Bridging analytical frameworks and disciplines to which they apply • Konrad Hagedorn, Philipp Grundmann and Andreas Thiel 3 Using the Ostrom Workshop frameworks to study the commons • Michael Cox 4 Polycentricity • Josephine van Zeben 5 Connecting commons and the IAD framework • Michael D. McGinnis 6 Anticommons theory • Michael Heller 7 Knowledge commons • Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg 8 Commons storytelling: tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies • Brigham Daniels 9 Common-pool resource appropriation and conservation: lessons from experimental economics • Esther Blanco and James M. Walker 10 Humanistic rational choice: understanding the fundamental motivations that drive self-organization and cooperation in commons dilemmas • Daniel A. DeCaro Part II: Commons interdisciplinary case studies 11 The US public lands as commons • Bruce Huber 12 Water commons: a critical appreciation and revisionist view • Eduardo Araral, Maitreyee Mukherjee, Faye Victoria Sit Ying Qi and Serik Orazgaliyev 13 Commons analysis and ocean fisheries • Bonnie J. McCay 14 Coastal commons as social-ecological systems • Achim Schlüter, Stefan Partelow, Luz Elba Torres-Guevara and Tim C. Jennerjahn 15 Climate as a commons • Jouni Paavola 16 Governing wildlife commons: wild boars, wolves,and red kites • Christian Schleyer, Nina Hagemann and Katharina Rauchenecker 17 Ecosystem services as commons? • Tatiana Kluvankova, Stanislava Brnkalakova, Veronika Gezik and Michal Maco 18 Urban commons of the Global South: using multiple frames to illuminate complexity • Seema Mundoli, Hita Unnikrishnan and Harini Nagendra 19 Ostrom in the city: design principles and practices for the urban commons • Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione 20 Infrastructure and its governance: the British Broadcasting Corporation case study • Brett Frischmann 21 Medical information commons • Mary Anderlik Majumder, Peter D. Zuk and Amy L. McGuire 22 Ethical standards for unconsented data access to build genomic and other medical information commons • Barbara J. Evans 23 Technology dependent commons • Nina Wormbs 24 From historical institution to pars pro toto: the commons and their revival in historical perspective • Tine De Moor 25 Customary authority and commons governance • Frank Matose, Phil René Oyono and James Murombedzi 26 The role of pseudo-commons in post-socialist countries • Insa Theesfeld 27 Facilitated self-governance of the commons: on the roles of civil society organizations in the governance of shared resource systems • Frank van Laerhoven and Clare Barnes 28 Commons, indigenous rights, and governance • Iliana Monterroso, Peter Cronkleton and Anne M. Larson 29 Globalization, local commons, and the multiscale ecosystem framework (MEF) • Timothy O. Randhir Part III: A global context 30 Bigger issues in a smaller world: the future of the commons • Cheryl Chan, Fatima Noor Khan and Sajida Aw 31 Protecting the global commons: the politics of planetary boundaries • Oran R. Young and Falk Schmidt Index