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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Ostrom, Elinor |
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Conference:
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Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property |
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Location:
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Conf. Date:
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June 10-14 |
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Date:
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1998 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/303
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Sector:
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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IASC
common pool resources
self-governance
scale
design principles
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Abstract:
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(From the text):
"From the set of governance panels at this conference, we carry away some important insights related both to some of the key questions with which we started the conference and the problems and puzzles addressed within the governance panels.
*Fikret Berkes warned us that it was easier to predict failure than success.
*Jim Scott stressed that creating uniform languages frequently created substantial benefits while at the same time increasing the capabilities of large- scale governmental and corporate control over all of our lives.
*Evelyn Pinkerton urged us all to think about how issues of scale affect the design principles we can use in governing diverse commons.
"A question on one of the hallway posters related to the continuum of meanings that individuals in different disciplines bring to the study of common property and asked how can we draw on and relate to these multiple languages and approaches...."
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