An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.

"In the late twentieth century, residents of the Blue Ridge mountains in western North Carolina fiercely resisted certain environmental efforts, even while laun

Tackles one of the most enduring and contentious issues of positive political economy: common pool resource management.

We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the wo