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That'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.
by richk449 7y ago
That'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.