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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Minora, Francesco |
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Conference:
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Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action: A Tribute to Prof. Elinor Ostrom, Second Thematic Conference of the IASC |
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Location:
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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Conf. Date:
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29 November - 1 December |
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Date:
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2012 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8615
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Sector:
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Social Organization
Theory |
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Region:
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Europe |
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Subject(s):
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housing
common pool resources
socio-economic systems
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Abstract:
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"This paper wants to discuss a theory according to which collective institutions were formed not just for governing particular common pool resources, but to manage them in order to produce habitability, i.e. a set of particular socio - environmental - conditions useful to inhabit a particular area. While most of the literature on the study of the commons has a specific focus on the management of natural resources, thanks to which these communities could survive along centuries, this paper argues that these institutions are useful in managing socio - economic - environmental instability in general, even in urban contexts and in the nowadays economy. This paper focuses on the housing issue. Although in the literature on the commons it is still quite unusual to read about this topic, since ’70s some authors clearly show the role of self organising communities in producing habitability. This theme will be discussed in two ways: in the first part of the paper it will be presented the historical evolution of two very old collective institutions located in centre - north of Italy managing common lands, placed one in a mountain and the other one in a rural area. Those institutions faced some major socio–economic changes and evolved an adaptive strategy for surviving till today. In the second part of the paper it’ll be presented some new forms of collective institutions (like co-ops, trusts, charities etc.) which use very similar schemes to the previous ones but for governing housing estates."
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