Framing fracking: private property, common resources, and regimes of governance

The Constitutional Framing: Republican Democracy, Private Property, and Free Expression

In 1785 and 1786, Massachusetts fell into economic depression. When the state government responded with fiscal restraint, many landowning farmers, particularly in the central and western portions of the state, fell behind on loan and tax payments and faced possible foreclosures. Town meetings produced demands for legislative action to protect the vulnerable landowners. The government instead pr...

Displacement and Alienation from Common Property Resources

The Dynamics of Livestock and Rangelands under Common Property Regimes

Resources, Framing, and Transfer Resources, Framing, and Transfer

As researchers studying student reasoning in introductory physics, and as instructors teaching courses, we often focus on whether and how students apply what they know in one context to their reasoning in another. But we do not speak in terms of “transfer.” The term connotes to us a unitary view of knowledge as a thing that is acquired in one context and carried (or not) to another. We speak, r...

SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE OF COMMON-POOL RESOURCES: Context, Methods, and Politics

■ Abstract This paper presents a critical assessment of the field of common property. After discussing briefly the major findings and accomplishments of the scholarship on the commons, the paper pursues two strategies of critique. The first strategy of friendly critique accepts the basic assumptions of most writings on common property to show that scholars of commons have discovered far more va...