Contemporary commons: Sharing and managing common-pool resources in the 21st century
Abstract: In her groundbreaking work, Elinor Ostrom suggested that communities are able to self-organize and develop rules which allow them to effectively manage common-pool resources while avoiding the “tragedy of the commons”, as proposed by Hardin. Based on empirical case studies of how forests, irrigation, grazing land and fisheries are organized all over the world, Ostrom suggested several principles that can serve as guidelines for managing common-pool resources. In the 21st century new initiatives have been based on sharing. There are various examples such as car and bike sharing in cities, internet platforms such as Wikipedia, community gardens and many others. There is a reason to believe that these efforts will continue to grow and become more popular as people realise the economic, social and ecological benefits. The aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent Ostrom’s findings are relevant to these new, often urbanised or digitalised forms of sharing. Can the famous design principles for which she won the Nobel prize be applied or do we need to search for a different set of principles that are more suitable for these new emerging forms of ‘the commons’? Our findings suggest that although Ostrom’s framework needs to be adapted before being applied to the reality of urban and digitalised environments, some of her findings remain relevant.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Contemporary commons: Sharing and managing common-pool resources in the 21st century ; volume:29 ; number:1 ; year:2019 ; pages:74-86 ; extent:13
Human affairs ; 29, Heft 1 (2019), 74-86 (gesamt 13)
- Creator
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Šestáková, Anna
Plichtová, Jana
- DOI
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10.1515/humaff-2019-0007
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022111813411846201689
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST
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- Šestáková, Anna
- Plichtová, Jana
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