The Levels of Action.

The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes ...

The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics ...

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However ...

The authors present a method for systemically comparing alternative institutional arrangements for the development of rural infrastructure.

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 ...

This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The ...