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The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology

The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology

Wall, Derek

Paperback

Series: History for a Sustainable Future

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0262534703
ISBN13: 9780262534703
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 8 2017
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.

The history of the commons--jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use--provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how we can act as good ancestors. In this book, Derek Wall considers the commons from antiquity to the present day, as an idea, an ecological space, an economic abstraction, and a management practice. He argues that the commons should be viewed neither as a tragedy of mismanagement (as the biologist Garrett Hardin wrote in 1968) nor as a panacea for solving environmental problems. Instead, Walls sees the commons as a particular form of property ownership, arguing that property rights are essential to understanding sustainability. How we use the land and its resources offers insights into how we value the environment.

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