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Local Commons and Global Interdependence

By Elinor Ostrom , Robert Keohane

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1995
ISBN
0803979622, 9780803979628
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15286971 bytes)
Pages
272\272
Time added
2015-03-20 10:50:59

Description

This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements. Scholars have independently discovered self-organizing regimes which rely on implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and procedures rather than the command and control of a central authority. The contributors discuss the possibilities and

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