ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Common-Pool Resource, Management System, Garrett Hardin

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Hardin assumes that all resource users are rational actors in a competitive marketplace, in which decisions are based exclusively on the short-term self-interest of the individual. : in their article benefits of the commons, berkes et al. argue that the allocation of property (or reproductive) rights is not the only means of achieving cpr sustainability. They point to empirical studies of cpr management under common, private and state property rights systems, and suggest that each of these systems may lead to degradation or sustainability, depending on specific circumstances. Ostrom: elinor ostrom"s model offers a means for evaluating the relative likelihood of long- term cpr sustainability or degradation. Ostrom provides an alternative to hardin"s argument and expands on berkes et al. "s critique. She identifies three core principles incentives, rules. Prohibitions" and co-operation trust that must be realized in one form or another in order to achieve cpr sustainability.