INDEV 475
Contemporary Development Issues
Winter 2020 · Governing the Commons
Topics
- Commons governance
- Institutional rules
- Social–ecological systems
- Resource and knowledge commons
- Livelihoods and rights
- Global commons
Readings
- Sustaining the Commons2016; assigned chapters, including 1, 2, 7 and 10; Arizona State University.
- Hardin, G. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162(3859), 1243–1248.
- Feeny, D.; Berkes, F.; McCay, B. J.; Acheson, M. (1990). The tragedy of the commons: Twenty-two years later. Human Ecology 18(1), 1–19.
- Ostrom, E. et al. (1999). Revisiting the commons: Local lessons, global challenges. Science 284, 278–282.
- van Laerhoven, F.; Ostrom, E. (2007). Traditions and Trends in the Study of the Commons. International Journal of the Commons 1(1), 3–28.
- Johnson, C. (2004). Uncommon ground: The poverty of history in common property discourses. Development and Change 35(3), 407–433.
- Ranganathan, S. (2016). Global commons. European Journal of International Law 27(3), 693–717.
- Foster, S. R.; Iaione, C. (2016). The City as a Commons. Yale Law & Policy Review 34(2).
- Hess, C. (2012). The Unfolding of the Knowledge Commons. St Antony’s International Review 8(1), 13–24.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2020
- Archived syllabus. Selected assigned readings; the complete weekly list is in the source.