More recently, a review piece written to mark the 30th anniversary of the publishing of Hardin's work:
Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges Science 284, 278 (1999) Elinor Ostrom, Joanna Burger, Christopher B. Field, Richard B. Norgaard, David Policansky 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 resources that depend on international cooperation, such as fresh water in international basins or large marine ecosystems. Institutional diversity may be as important as biological diversity for our long-term survival. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/284/5412/278.full ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:10:16 +0000 From: david welch <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Tragedy of the Commons revisited For another perspective on tragedy of the commons read: Ostrom=2C E. (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions=20 for collective action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
