The Tragedy of the Commons 30 Years Later

摘要

How do we manage resources that seem to belong to everyone? Fish swimming in lakes, game mammals wandering the open plains, and birds migrating overhead belong to everyone and yet are protected by no one. For the sturgeon and bison this lack of protection spelled disaster, for the passenger pigeon, extinction. Today, protecting such common-pool resources has become a challenge, not only on the local scale but on national and global ones as well.