Design Principles and Threats to Sustainable Organizations that Manage Commons

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5465
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Ostrom, Elinor
Date:	1999
Agency:	Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Series:	Workshop Working Paper W99-6
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5465
Sector:	Theory
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Subject(s):	design principles sustainability rules compliance community participation institutional design CIPEC common pool resources--theory Workshop
Abstract:	"Farmer organizations are responsible for the governance and management of a wide variety of common-pool resources (CPRs) including irrigation systems, pasture lands, community-owned forests, as well as their own 'budgetary commons' involved in organizing a wide diversity of cooperative activities. All CPRs are jointly used by a community of individuals where one person's use subtracts from the amount available to others. It is typically difficult to exclude potential beneficiaries from gaining access to a CPR. A wide diversity of literature written during the past two decades focuses on how individuals organize themselves to manage diverse kinds of CPRs."

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