Bringing the Environment Back In
Overcoming the Tragedy of the Diffusion of the Commons Metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6319006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Cashore (0000-0003-3492-858X), Steven Bernstein (0000-0002-0115-084X) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 478-501 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592721002553 |
| OpenAlex | W3190559003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 145 |
Contrary to calls for increased relevance, the discipline of political science has had lasting impacts in shaping environmental policy analysis. The ideas and approach advocated by former APSA president Elinor Ostrom, most comprehensively articulated inGoverning the Commons, have diffused to shape or reinforce generations of sustainability scholarship. We identify four “ideal type” problem conceptions that are distinguished based on their consistency or inconsistency with Ostrom’s inductive approach to problem structure and economic welfare emphasis, and four corresponding schools that reinforce each: commons (Type 1), economic optimization (Type 2), compromise (Type 3), and prioritization (Type 4). Whereas the prioritization school seeks to understand and identify lessons for minimizing the impact of human activity on the natural environment, the diffusion of the commons’ metaphor has led political scientists to champion frameworks that bias Type 3, 2, and 1 orientations. The latter all rest on moral underpinnings that promote human material interests as their goal, rather than recognizing them as also a primary cause of environmental degradation. A fundamental conceptual reorientation is required if social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular, are to generate an understanding of and identify tools for ameliorating rather than exacerbating today’s Type 4 climate change and species extinction crises
Commons · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Tragedy of the commons · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Law · Philosophy · Smart Cities and Technologies · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Policy design for biodiversity
The Climate Challenge for International Studies
Years of International Climate Negotiations
Conceptualizing responsibility in world politics
Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation
The Global Politics of a Protected Earth
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations
Rethinking challenges of a holographic world
Effects of stakeholder input on voluntary sustainability standards
Battling the climate crisis
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions
One health governance of antimicrobial resistance seen through an Urban Political Ecology lens
How policy-relevant evidence is constructed in electric vehicle research
Outer Space as a Global Commons
Coalition cascades
Vulnerability of the reef heritage
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards
Private authority and public policy interactions in global context
The State and the Global Ecological Crisis
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
Governing the Commons
The Voluntary Environmentalists
Power
Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics
Rules without Rights
Paths to a Green World
People and Forests
Assessing Consensus
Dynamics of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Tropical Regions
Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?
Selling out on nature
Social and Ecological Synergy
Processes and patterns in transitions and system innovations
Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons
Transaction Costs and Tradeable Permits
Revisiting the social cost of carbon
Two-Person Cooperative Games
Does carbon pricing reduce emissions? A review of ex-post analyses
Community managed forests and forest protected areas
What kind of a science is sustainability science?
Science for managing ecosystem services
Connectivity and the Governance of Multilevel Social-Ecological Systems
Extinction risk from climate change
A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Beyond Markets and States
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
A Theory of Justice
Economics from zero-sum to win-win
Do Private Regulations Ratchet Up? How to Distinguish Types of Regulatory Stringency and Patterns of Change
The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution
Our Limits Transgressed
The Skeptical Environmentalist
The Logic of Collective Action
Discursive Democracy
The Persistence of an Economic Paradigm
Learning From 'Actually Existing' Redd
Reconciling sustainability and discounting in Cost–Benefit Analysis
Valuing nature
Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions
Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways
Governing Trade-Offs and Building Coherence in Policy-Making for the 2030 Agenda
Norms for the Earth
Multistakeholderism
Cost–benefit analysis
Environmental Governance
Discounting the Discount Rate
Catalytic Cooperation
Regime Effectiveness and the Oslo-Potsdam Solution
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma
Long-Term Environmental Policy
Confronting Consumption
Determining Regime Effectiveness
Empty Institutions in Global Environmental Politics
Ostrom, Hardin and the commons
Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance
Ecosystem services from tropical forestry projects – The choice of international market actors
One hundred faces of sustainable forest management
Do eco-labels prevent deforestation? Lessons from non-state market driven governance in the soy, palm oil, and cocoa sectors
Does ‘better’ discounting lead to ‘worse’ outcomes in long-run decisions? The dilemma of hyperbolic discounting
Research Notes Public Opinion on Endangered Species Conservation and Policy
The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance
The logic of competing information campaigns
Protected for ever
A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems
EMS-based Environmental Regimes as Club Goods
Integration and interdisciplinarity
Welfare Propositions of Economics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
Personal Utilities and Public Judgements
To Slow or Not to Slow
The Legitimacy of International Governance
A New Path for U.S. Climate Politics
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
When Effect Becomes Cause
New foundations of cost–benefit analysis
What Do We Know and Need to Know about the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management
Explaining Advocacy Coalition Change with Policy Feedback
The Most Important Topic Political Scientists Are Not Studying
A Minilateral Solution for Global Climate Change? On Bargaining Efficiency, Club Benefits, and International Legitimacy
How Types of Goods and Property Rights Jointly Affect Collective Action
The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance
Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry
God Gave Physics the Easy Problems
Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework
Should trees have managerial standing? Toward stakeholder status for non-human nature
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders
Institutional diffusion in international environmental affairs
Selling Nature to save It? Biodiversity and Green Developmentalism
Two Faces of Power
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
The Policy Scientist of Democracy
Attachment to Livestock and Attitudes Toward Large Carnivores Among Sheep Farmers in Norway
Capital Contests
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |