scholarly journals The Common Pool Resource Heatmap: A Tool to Drive Changes in Water Law and Governance

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 3110
Author(s):  
Jacqui Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Heat Map ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Management Area ◽  
The Common ◽  
Resource System ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Anticipated water-related impacts of climate change heighten the need for tools supporting proactive efforts to address current and future conflicts involving water. Analysing a regulatory framework for a water resource using Ostrom’s (1990) Common Pool Resource (CPR) theory can assist in identifying regulatory weaknesses that may contribute to deterioration of the resource and conflicts between resource users. Equally, adopting adaptive management to transform the regulatory context can also have positive effects. However, if incentives drive resource extractor behaviours, a tool to communicate these initiatives with stakeholders, including state actors, could assist. This article presents the ‘CPR heat map’ to assist with efforts to drive changes in water governance. An example of the CPR heatmap is presented involving the governance of groundwater in the Surat Cumulative Management Area, Queensland, Australia. This example shows how perceived weaknesses and strengths of the governance framework can be illustrated. It also shows how initiatives that are transforming water governance can be presented to drive social learning. The CPR heat map illustrates the collective nature of the resource system and how to potentially resolve and manage water-related conflict. This research has implications for how we approach conflict involving water and may be also relevant for managing other CPRs.

scholarly journals Our Common Commons: Policies for Sustaining Volunteer Energy

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Brudney ◽  
Lucas C.P.M. Meijs
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

AbstractBrudney and Meijs (2009) conceive of volunteer energy as a social resource that constitutes the basis for (organizationally based) volunteering. They show that volunteer energy can be compared to a human-made, renewable resource that can be grown and recycled – but likewise one that is subject to misuse and misappropriation that can imperil the vitality of the resource. They explain that to a certain extent, volunteer energy is a common pool resource with free access for all volunteer-involving organizations, especially given the trend that people are less committed to one organization. As a consequence, volunteer-involving organizations must be collectively interested in making more volunteer energy available, now and in the future. As with other resources, sustaining the volunteer resource is becoming an issue. Thus, the need arises to develop an approach to the collective challenge of governing the volunteer energy commons. To this challenge we apply the design principles of Elinor Ostrom (1990) for robust governance of the common pool resource.

scholarly journals EXTERNALITIES AND PROPERTY AS GUIDING FACTOR FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF COMMON POOL RESOURCES

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Diego De Melo Conti ◽  
Paulo Sergio Gonçalves de Oliveira ◽  
Alan Tadeu de Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Common

:This article aims to reflect about how can be managed the common pool resources oriented by principles of externalities and property. Thus, the guiding concepts for decision making regarding these two factors were those of the positive or negative externalities generated from the exploration, and the use of a good as well as the aspects related to the property of resources. Based on the understanding that resources can be categorized, as being rivals and / or excluders, and their consume generate externalities to other social actors in the present, as well as to their own possessors or potential users in the future. Therefore, based on the study of these relationships, a better decision-making process can be reached on the issues of ownership of access, and on management as to the preservation and use of common pool resources. Moreover, it is necessary to understand that every resource consumed promotes, at some point, positive or negative externalities to other individuals. In addition, the simple monetization of resources does not solve the problem of negative externalities. Therefore, based on the categorization of the property that has to be exercised, and the externalities, it is possible to understand how to manage a common pool resource. This situation helps to understand the exercise of control and usufruct of the common pools.

scholarly journals University spaces: Creating cité and place

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Temple
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Common Pool Resource ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Opposite Situation ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
University Settings

This article examines a number of conceptualizations of interactions between people and physical space, and relates them to university settings to make a link with findings on institutional effectiveness. It argues that the idea of the common-pool resource, where certain physical or social conditions are exploited collectively, is a helpful way of understanding how certain university spaces may be used productively. The opposite situation, the creation of a university 'non-place', must be guarded against. Planners and institutional managements can support the creation of high-performing spaces managed in common, while allowing students and others to build their own community structures.

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