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There are a wealth of real world examples of communities working together to collectively manage the commons without either privatisation or state regulation.
by xwvvvvwx 7y ago
There are a wealth of real world examples of communities working together to collectively manage the commons without either privatisation or state regulation.
If you want to know more you should familiarise yourself with the work of Elinor Ostrom.
- richk449 7y agoThat's great. If a group of people comes together to collectively manage a commons, that sounds like regulation to me. It's all semantics though.
- matt9j 7y agoThere is a subtle technical difference in the literature, where regulation is externally imposed and codified, while communal management is devised, enforced, and most importantly, flexibly changed by those actually involved with the appropriation and management of the resource.
- richk449 7y agoThanks. That makes sense.