Professor Ostrom's prizewinning work examined how people collaborate and organize themselves to manage common resources like forests or fisheries, even when governments are not involved.
In response to the petition, a Thames Water spokesperson said the reservoir "plays a key part in supplying high quality drinking water to many homes in the local area, so we need to keep the site secure at all times", highlighting one of the problems with allowing private companies manage common resources - fear of unnamed, uncontrollable, future events always seems to trump public desire.
Social science research has helped us make hurricane warnings more effective, improved methods of instruction in the classroom and the workplace, and manage common resources more efficiently without centralized regulation".
This paper identifies the necessary and sufficient conditions for successfully managing common pool resources (CPRs) and, more specifically, irrigation canal maintenance in the rural Bukhara region of Uzbekistan.
Besides, and not less important, hybrid institutions are required when there is a need for managing common pooled resources and/or when any other form of collective action is essential for effectively managing supply.
This case-study of small-scale fisheries in the Comoros examines how effective local fishing associations are at managing common fisheries resources, and provides some understanding of the underlying characteristics of effectiveness.
"Insights into these issues help explain economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources.
Such trust funds are particularly effective in remote locations with scattered populations, such as Tibetan herders with traditions of community-level action that aim to manage common property resources.
The challenges discussed here are likely to also be faced by other regional-scale initiatives to manage common environmental resources, such as the Western Indian Ocean Coastal Challenge (http://www.wiocc.org) and the Micronesia Challenge (http://www.micronesiachallenge.org).org
