Revisiting Commons - Are Common Property Regimes Irrational?

The Dynamics of Livestock and Rangelands under Common Property Regimes

Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges.

In a seminal paper, Garrett Hardin argued in 1968 that users of a commons are caught in an inevitable process that leads to the destruction of the resources on which they depend. This article discusses new insights about such problems and the conditions most likely to favor sustainable uses of common-pool resources. Some of the most difficult challenges concern the management of large-scale res...

Property , Taxation , and the Budgetary Commons

Duality in property: Commons and anticommons

Commons and Anticommons problems are the consequence of symmetric structural departures from a unified conception of property. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a dual model of property, where commons and anticommons problems are the consequence of a lack of conformity between use and exclusion rights. The general model is then extended to consider the different equilibria obtained under ve...

The Tragedy or the Benefits of the Commons? Common Property and Environmental Protection

This paper attempts to identify the essential elements of the communal land tenure system which contributed to the sustainable use of resources in Africa. A number of factors which could enhance and preserve the sustainable use of communal land tenure systemS (given the socio-economic changes that have taken place) are discussed. Hardin's (1968) idea that resources held in common are likely to ...