Creating new commons

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. These include communal tenure in meadows and forest, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market has been uniformly successful in solving common-pool resource problems.

1. In contrast to the propositions of the 'tragedy of the commons' argument, common-pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organizations rather than by a coercive state.

1. Working for the common good
2. Developing common cause
3. Creating

1. Using multi-disciplinary approaches to common property regimes
2. Reinventing the commons
3. Reducing loss of common open spaces
4. Organizing the poor to protect common resources
5. Instigating community resources management
6. Enabling common markets
7. Creating worker-owned businesses
8. Creating usable community property
9. Creating digital governance

1. Overriding rights to common property

1. Common sense