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Elinor Ostrom and common pool resources — John Tomer

It's becoming clear that Earth, its atmosphere and surrounding space constitute a delicately balanced ecosystem that requires being viewed and treated as a common pool resource. Elinor Ostrom’s (1990; 2009) research focuses on common pool resources (CPR) and the dilemmas they have posed for their users and society. A CPR is a resource such as a fishing ground, an irrigation system, ground water, pasture land for grazing animals, etc. that jointly benefits a group of people (the users) but...

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