Journal article
The benefits of the commons
Abstract
Conventional wisdom holds that resources held in common will invariably be overexploited — the "tragedy of the commons". A number of examples show that this is not necessarily so.
Authors
Berkes F; Feeny D; McCay BJ; Acheson JM
Journal
Nature, Vol. 340, No. 6229, pp. 91–93
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
July 1989
DOI
10.1038/340091a0
ISSN
0028-0836