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The benefits of the commons
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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

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