Everyone’s heard of the infamous “Tragedy of the Commons,” but the real tragedy is that Elinor Ostrom’s work refuting it isn’t just as widely-known.
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———. 2015. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316423936.
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Sustainable Development and the Tragedy of Commons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXM47Ri1Kc.
Elinor Ostrom on Resilient Social-Ecological Systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqC7xG8fxHw. Velicu, Irina, and Gustavo García-López. 2018. “Thinking the Commons through Ostrom and Butler: Boundedness and Vulnerability.” Theory, Culture & Society 35 (6): 55–73. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276418757315. Icons for Principles of the Commons from The Noun Project: https://thenounproject.com/icon/puzzle-5278809/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/monitoring-2906106/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/russian-nesting-dolls-2671768/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/pillory-4509440/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/boundary-3856835/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/arbitration-1142571/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/revise-1085288/ https://thenounproject.com/icon/raised-fist-4914991/
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