Understanding the Use of Common-Pool Resources in Long-Term Perspective
by
Tine De Moor
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
One of the classic problems in social science is known as 'the dilemma of the commons', in which land, water, and other resources held jointly by social or economic segments tend to be depleted sooner and to a greater extent than privately held assets. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,...