The forest transition as a window of opportunity to change the governance of common-pool resources: The case of Mexico’s Mixteca Alta

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 105516
Author(s):  
Matthew Lorenzen ◽  
Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez ◽  
Rosario Ramírez-Santiago ◽  
Gustavo G. Garza
Keyword(s):  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Forest Transition ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Mixteca Alta

scholarly journals Editorial introduction to the Elinor Ostrom memorial issue

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEOFFREY M. HODGSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Market State ◽  
Memorial Issue

Abstract:This introduction considers the overall character and impact of the work of Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012). Her work is not only inter-disciplinary in character; it also bridges ‘original’ and ‘new’ traditions within institutional economics. Her studies of the governance of common-pool resources inspired multiple lines of enquiry in economics and other social sciences. It also carves out a policy approach that surpasses the market–state dichotomy. This broad impact is evidenced in the seven essays collected and introduced here.

scholarly journals Emergent sustainability in open property regimes

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (51) ◽  
pp. 12859-12867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Moritz ◽  
Roy Behnke ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Rebecca Bliege Bird ◽  
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Sustainable Resource Use ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Property Regimes

Current theoretical models of the commons assert that common-pool resources can only be managed sustainably with clearly defined boundaries around both communities and the resources that they use. In these theoretical models, open access inevitably leads to a tragedy of the commons. However, in many open-access systems, use of common-pool resources seems to be sustainable over the long term (i.e., current resource use does not threaten use of common-pool resources for future generations). Here, we outline the conditions that support sustainable resource use in open property regimes. We use the conceptual framework of complex adaptive systems to explain how processes within and couplings between human and natural systems can lead to the emergence of efficient, equitable, and sustainable resource use. We illustrate these dynamics in eight case studies of different social–ecological systems, including mobile pastoralism, marine and freshwater fisheries, swidden agriculture, and desert foraging. Our theoretical framework identifies eight conditions that are critical for the emergence of sustainable use of common-pool resources in open property regimes. In addition, we explain how changes in boundary conditions may push open property regimes to either common property regimes or a tragedy of the commons. Our theoretical model of emergent sustainability helps us to understand the diversity and dynamics of property regimes across a wide range of social–ecological systems and explains the enigma of open access without a tragedy. We recommend that policy interventions in such self-organizing systems should focus on managing the conditions that are critical for the emergence and persistence of sustainability.

scholarly journals AN APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF COMMON POOL RESOURCES THROUGH AN EXTENSION OF THE EQUILIBRIUM CONCEPT

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-234
Author(s):  
Jaegug Bae ◽  
Jongseok Kim ◽  
Eun Sook Kang
Keyword(s):  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Equilibrium Concept ◽  
Common Pool
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