Management - Use limits & carrying capacities

Feeny, D., Berkes, F., Mccay, B. J., & Acheson, J. M. (1990). The tragedy of the commons: Twenty-two years later. Human Ecology, 18(1), 10.

Abstract

An examination of the evidence supporting and refuting the thinking in Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons," which states that all resources held in common are over-exploited and inevitably degraded. The evidence does not support this inevitability; upon realizing such degradation, users change their behavior through a variety of institutional or casual arrangements which do successfully sustain the resource. Includes an unusual bibliography leading to this conclusion, not OHV specific.

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