Check out the "non-governmental solutions" section of that article. If you can manage to form a community around a common resource, you can establish rules and

Check out the "non-governmental solutions" section of that article. If you can manage to form a community around a common resource, you can establish rules and procedures to govern its use. This kind of solution won't work for all shared resources, but it's at least worth considering: the people using the resource usually know better how to manage it than a centralized government body, and these communities can think longer-term than a market which tends toward short-term exploitation.