| dc.contributor.author |
Shepherd, Gill |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2010-02-02T16:45:45Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2010-02-02T16:45:45Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
1988 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5461 |
|
| dc.description.abstract |
"Twenty years ago this year, the biologist Garrett Hardin wrote a now
famous paper which has strongly influenced atteqts to understand
human use of the environrent. He popularized the sonent phrase ‘the
trageay of the cmmns’ in arguing that though society is composed of
rational individuals attempting to maximize their own best gcod, this
rationality is individual and fundamentally at the expense Of other
individuals. Nowadays, it is often forgotten that Hardin was prompted to write not by the misuse of cormmn lands, but by population growth rates. In 1968, the year in which Hardin’s article appeared, hrlich had just published his apocalyptic book, The Population Borrb, and the rapid
natural increase of populations in Latin America and Asia was terrifying the world." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Network Paper 6d |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
social forestry |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
tragedy of the commons |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
property rights |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
core commons |
en_US |
| dc.title |
The Reality of the Commons: Answering Hardin from Somalia |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Working Paper |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Theory |
en_US |
| dc.publisher.workingpaperseries |
Social Forestry Network, Overseas Development Institute, London |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.region |
Africa |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.country |
Somalia |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Forestry |
en_US |