Publication series :1
Author: Keohane Robert;Ostrom Elinor
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year: 1994
E-ISBN: 9781446265178
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780803979628
Subject: C91 Sociology
Keyword: 社会学
Language: ENG
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Description
This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements. Scholars have independently discovered self-organizing regimes which rely on implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and procedures rather than the command and control of a central authority.
The contributors discuss the possibilities and