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Thinking about the Commons

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ID12960466
AuthorsCarol M Rose (University of Arizona, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue1
Pages557-566
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281
PublisherUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/ijc.987
OpenAlexW3123154154
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited17

This article explores current developments in theoretical thinking about the commons. It keys off contemporary reconsiderations of Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” and Elinor Ostrom’s response to Hardin in Governing the Commons and later work. Hardin’s idea of a “tragedy” has received much criticism, especially from Ostrom herself; but Ostrom’s own work has also raised some questions in more recent commons literature. The key issue that emerges from this reconsideration revolves around the understanding of commons on the one hand as limited common regimes, central to Ostrom’s work, or on the other hand as open access, as espoused by more recent advocates of widespread access to information and communications networks

Common-pool resource · Commons · Criticism · Economics · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Sociology · Tragedy of the commons · Work (physics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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Unique citing works12
Citations per year2,4
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 12

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