Sustaining the Commons

Sustaining the Commons

This textbook discusses the main framework, concepts and applications of the work of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues for an undergraduate audience. We began teaching a course on collective and the commons in 2007 at Arizona State University. Initially we made use of Ostrom's classic book “Gove...

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Main Authors: Anderies, John M. (Author), Janssen, Marco A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tempe, Arizona Arizona State University [2016]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • I THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
  • 1 Why Study the Commons?
  • 2 Defining Institutions
  • 3 Action Arenas and Action Situations
  • 4 Social Dilemmas
  • II CASE STUDIES
  • 5 Water Governance
  • 6 Harvesting From the Commons
  • 7 Design Principles to Sustain the Commons
  • III HUMAN BEHAVIOR
  • 8 Social Dilemmas in the Laboratory
  • 9 Self-governance in the Laboratory
  • IV RULES OF THE GAMES
  • 10 Classifying Rules
  • 11 Rules, Norms and Shared Strategies
  • V A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE
  • 12 Feedbacks and Stability
  • 13 Coupled Infrastructure Systems
  • 14 Think Globally, Act Locally?
  • 15 Challenges Ahead

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