Comments on: Beyond ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: Why Conservation Needs a Rethink http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/ A blog on conservation, from migratory birds to coral reefs, from rainforests to climate change to personal green technology. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brigitte http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-15271 Brigitte Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:16:08 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-15271 Very nice post Sanj! Very nice post Sanj!

]]> By: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Shows the Commons Doesn’t Always End in Tragedy : Green Resouces http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14409 Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Shows the Commons Doesn’t Always End in Tragedy : Green Resouces Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:22:44 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14409 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Shows the Commons Doesn’t Always End in Tragedy - Treadmills http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14336 Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Shows the Commons Doesn’t Always End in Tragedy - Treadmills Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:15 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14336 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Tree Hugger « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14312 Tree Hugger « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:23:16 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14312 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14308 Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:05:19 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14308 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a...Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14306 Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:03 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14306 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Sustainability Digest » Blog Archive » Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14305 Sustainability Digest » Blog Archive » Commonly Held Resources Don’t Always Mean Ecological Tragedy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:55:08 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14305 [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...] [...] established as conventional economic and environmental wisdom at this point. But should it be? Cool Green Science is highlighting a…Read the full story on [...]

]]> By: Robert Lalasz http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14153 Robert Lalasz Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:08:28 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14153 Thnx -- link is now fixed. Thnx — link is now fixed.

]]> By: Thinks-Too-Hard http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14133 Thinks-Too-Hard Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:35:07 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14133 <I>Her research finds that communities can and will impose substantial costs to themselves to sustainably manage a common resource if (a) the expected benefits of managing a resource are greater than the cost of investing in the rules to govern those benefits, (b) loss of short-term economic gains are offset, and (c) the potential of cheating is eliminated.</i> I am not convinced that this is different from Hardin's "Mutual Coercion, Mutually Agreed Upon." A careful reading of what Hardin actually argues in that paper reveals a surprisingly robust framework (even if some of his later work is downright xenophobic). Her research finds that communities can and will impose substantial costs to themselves to sustainably manage a common resource if (a) the expected benefits of managing a resource are greater than the cost of investing in the rules to govern those benefits, (b) loss of short-term economic gains are offset, and (c) the potential of cheating is eliminated.

I am not convinced that this is different from Hardin’s “Mutual Coercion, Mutually Agreed Upon.” A careful reading of what Hardin actually argues in that paper reveals a surprisingly robust framework (even if some of his later work is downright xenophobic).

]]> By: RKB http://blog.nature.org/2009/10/sanjayan-tragedy-commons-ostrom-conservation-nature-conservanc/comment-page-1/#comment-14120 RKB Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:03:18 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=7825#comment-14120 Interesting article, with some interesting applications. (BTW: The link under "Tragedy of the Commons" is broken.) Interesting article, with some interesting applications. (BTW: The link under “Tragedy of the Commons” is broken.)

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