{"id":84931,"date":"2018-11-19T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-revisited"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:03:10","slug":"the-tragedy-of-the-commons-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-revisited","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-revisited.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over two decades, I\u2019ve worked with many collaborators studying infrastructure commons and knowledge commons. We developed the Governing Knowledge Commons framework, adapting Ostrom\u2019s empirical approach to the special characteristics of knowledge resources. Understanding how communities share and develop knowledge is crucial in today\u2019s \u201cinformation society.\u201d And, of course, sharing and developing knowledge is critical to successful governance of natural resources, especially on a global scale. Using the GKC framework, we\u2019ve made substantial progress toward an empirical picture of knowledge-related commons governance. But it\u2019s not nearly enough. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A classic study of the perils of resource sharing, with implications for how we deal with climate, has been updated.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/brett-frischmann\/\">Brett Frischmann<\/a> on November 19, 2018 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-revisited\/\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/the-traged...revisited\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two decades, I\u2019ve worked with many collaborators studying infrastructure commons and knowledge commons. We developed the Governing Knowledge Commons framework, adapting Ostrom\u2019s empirical approach to the special characteristics of knowledge resources. Understanding how communities share and develop knowledge is crucial in today\u2019s \u201cinformation society.\u201d And, of course, sharing and developing knowledge is critical to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}