Title: Solving Collective Action Problems | GEOG 30N: Environment and Society in a Changing World
Headings: Solving Collective Action Problems
Solving Collective Action Problems
Solving Collective Action Problems
Reading Assignment: "Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited"
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Content: Furthermore, we now know that in many cases government regulation and private ownership fail to solve collective action problems. Much of what we know about community self-organization comes from the research of Elinor Ostrom. Ostrom was a political scientist who spent most of her career at Indiana University and Arizona State University before she passed away in 2012. For her work, Ostrom was a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics – the first woman ever to receive this award. Reading Assignment: " Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited"
Please read the article " The Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited
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" from Scientific Armerican, available online. As you read this, think about what factors make some types of solutions to collective action problems succeed and others fail. How might you use these insights to help solve collective action problems in your own life? The viability of community self-organization is especially important because it is often the only option available. Governments have busy agendas and cannot consider all collective action problems.