Land use, environmental change, and sustainable development
The role of institutional diagnostics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12960438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oran Young (0000-0003-2463-6735, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-66 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281 |
| Publisher | Ubiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18352/ijc.244 |
| OpenAlex | W2165271578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 23 |
Although the “tragedy of the commons” is common currency in popular accounts of problems arising in human-environment relations, empirical research has shown that common-property systems do not always lead to tragic outcomes. Moreover, systems of private property or public property, often proposed as solutions to the tragedy of the commons, can generate tragedies of their own that are equally severe. The challenge we face is to develop strategies for avoiding these tragedies featuring structures of property rights that are most likely to lead to sustainable outcomes in specific situations ranging from local communities reliant on the harvest of renewable resources to the global system facing the prospect of climate change. Successful governance systems typically involve regulatory, top-down strategies, normative, bottom-up strategies, or some combination of the two. What is needed to achieve sustainable results is a diagnostic approach that matches institutions to specific biophysical and socioeconomic conditions in contrast to an ideological approach that advocates the application of one system of property rights to all situations
Business · Common-pool resource · Commons · Economic system · Economics · Environmental economics · Environmental resource management · Ideology · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Sustainable development · Tragedy of the commons · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Law · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine
Governance for adaptive capacity and resilience in the U.S. water sector
Institutional Fit and River Basin Governance
Societal norms and the shadow of the mind
From a Given to a Construct
The Promise of Collective Action for Large-Scale Commons Dilemmas
Governing the Commons for two decades
Conflict resolution through ecosystem-based management
From applying panaceas to mastering complexity
Enhancing the capacity of water governance to deal with complex management challenges
Legitimacy objects, agents, and evaluators
Community climate commons for collective climate action
An ecosystem approach to small-scale fisheries through participatory diagnosis in four tropical countries
The Role of State‐reinforced Self‐governance in Averting the Tragedy of the Irrigation Commons in Japan
Motives for collective climate action – Community work promoting community climate commons
An applied research agenda for navigating diverse livelihood challenges in rural coastal communities in the tropics
Managing Large Ungulates in Europe
Principles of Public Trust Thinking
Collective action in invasive species control, and prospects for community-based governance
Climate change, violent conflict and local institutions in Kenya's drylands
Regions at Risk
Managing the commons
Micromotives and macrobehavior
Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
Revisiting the Commons
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
The Question of the commons
Veto Players
Governing the Commons
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research
Takings
The Fishery
The Problem of Scale in Human/Environment Relationships
The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
The Tragedy of the Commons
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |