Commons—resources used or governed by groups of heterogeneous users through agreed-
upon institutional arrangements—are the subject of one of the more successful research …

Die Reihe bietet empirisch angeleiteten, quantitativen und international vergleichenden
Arbeiten, Untersuchungen von grenzüberschreitenden Transformationsund …

A central challenge facing the study the environmental governance is the lack of
commonunderstanding of important concepts. Critical concepts such as social boundaries …

Governability is an important concept in the political and environmental social sciences with
increasing application to socio‐ecological systems such as fisheries. Indeed, governability …

The Amazon is the largest forest system on Earth, supporting a variety of indigenous
societies, small farmers, extractivists, and artisanal fishers with different cultures and …

Hardin was wrong. There was not a tragedy of overuse. The Commons were dismantled by
the state to make room for the formal economy and higher income user groups. I revisit the …

Recognizing that community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approaches
have had mixed success in pastoral rangelands, this paper compares five case studies—two …

Groundwater is critical to human survival, however, it has constantly been overexploited
around the world. Despite hydrological causes and the effects of global climate change …

Ostrom's design principles have been broadly used to analyse the governance of common
pool resources. However, they are normally assessed as present or absent. We challenge …

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with
research in the field of economic governance. In order to map the scientific impact of her …