eight "design principles" of sustainable local common pool resource management

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Ostrom identifies eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:
Elinor Ostrom (née Awan, born August 7, 1933) is an American political scientist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons".

Ostrom identifies eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management

1 Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external unentitled parties);

2 Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources are adapted to local conditions;

3 Collective-choice arrangements allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;

4 Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;

5 There is a scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;

6 Mechanisms of conflict resolution are cheap and of easy access;

7 The self-determination of the community is recognized by higher-level authorities;

8 In the case of larger common-pool resources: organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.


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