The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

Sheila R. Foster (Edited by), Chrystie F. Swiney (Edited by)

9781108837217, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 November 2021

450 pages
26.3 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.84 kg

'A largely overdue primer on a fast-developing field. This is an impressive collection of recent thought and practices on managing different kinds of shared resources.' Ugo Mattei, The Alfred and Hanna Fromm Distinguished Professor of International and Comparative Law, UC Hastings and Professor of Civil Law, University of Turin

The commons theory, first articulated by Elinor Ostrom, is increasingly used as a framework to understand and rethink the management and governance of many kinds of shared resources. These resources can include natural and digital properties, cultural goods, knowledge and intellectual property, and housing and urban infrastructure, among many others. In a world of increasing scarcity and demand - from individuals, states, and markets - it is imperative to understand how best to induce cooperation among users of these resources in ways that advance sustainability, affordability, equity, and justice. This volume reflects this multifaceted and multidisciplinary field from a variety of perspectives, offering new applications and extensions of the commons theory, which is as diverse as the scholars who study it and is still developing in exciting ways.

Introduction: Commons research in the 21st century and beyond Sheila Foster and Chrystie Swiney
Part I. Revisiting the Origins and Evolution of Commons Thought: 1. Linking the origins and extensions of commons theory William Blomquist
2. The tragedy of Garrett Hardin's commons Andrew P. Follet, Brigham Daniels, Taylor Petersen
3. Kinship and commons: the Bedouin experience Haim Sandberg
Part II. Averting New Tragedies: 4, Averting tragedy of the resource directory anti-commons Greg Bloom
5. Time and tragedy: the problem with temporal commons Blake Hudson
6. Transforming climate dilemmas from tragedy to cooperation Bryan Bruns
Part III. New Forms of Contested Commons: 7. Urban public housing as a commons Andrea Mcardle
8. Humanitarian aid as a shared and contested common resource Michelle Reddy
9. The economic system as a commons: an exploration of shared institutions John Powell
Part IV. Urban Landscape and Infrastructure as a Commons: 10. Seeing New York City's urban canopy as a commons: a view from the street Rebecca Bratspies
11. City as commons: the case study of Bologna Elena De Nictollis and Christian Iaione
12. Urban commons architecture: collaboration spaces innovating learning within cities Sofia Croso Mazzuco
Part V. Reassessing Old and New Institutions for Collective Action: 13. Business improvement districts and the urban commons Alexandra Flynn
14. To have and to hold? Community land trust as commons Barbara Bezdek
15. Ostromian logic applied to civil society organizations and the rules that shape them Anthony Demattee and Chrystie Swiney
16. A conceptual model of polycentric resource governance in the 2030 district energy program Erik Nordman
Part VI. Managing and Restoring the Commons: 17. Management of facilitated common pool resources in India Pradeep Kumar Mishra
18. Social environmental dilemmas and governing the commons: the Itanhém river basin in Southern Bahia, Brazil Herbert Martins and Fernando Rios De Souza
19. Social trust, informal institutions and community-based wildlife management in Namibia and Tanzania Daniel Ogbaharya
20. Restoring the commons Itzchak Kornfeld
Part VII. Law, Legal Theory and the Commons: 21. Prior appropriations as a response to the tragedy of the commons Robert Abrams
22. Using the public trust doctrine to manage property on the moon Hope Babcock
23. A biotechnology regulatory commons problem David Forman
24. Can affirmative action offer a lesson in fighting enclosure? Sheldon Bernard Lyke
Part VIII. Technology, the Internet and the Future of Commons Governance: 25. Can technological change weaken the robustness of common-property regimes Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka and Evagelos Pafilis
26. Internet governance in the digital cold war Scott Shackelford and Angie Raymond.

Subject Areas: Environmental management [RNF], Environment law [LNKJ], International environmental law [LBBP], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Environmental economics [KCN]