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Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Permaculture TV - Governing the Commons: Elinor Ostrom delivers her Nobel Prize lecture
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:22:08 +1100
next we need Lynn Margulis and for the Science on EndoSymbiosis,
Co-evolution and Gaia Theory
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Subject: Permaculture TV - Governing the Commons: Elinor Ostrom delivers her
Nobel Prize lecture
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Permaculture TV - Governing the Commons: Elinor Ostrom delivers her Nobel
Prize lecture <http://permaculture.tv>
Ostrom is considered one of the leading scholars in the study of common
pool resources <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pool_resources>. In
particular, Ostrom’s work emphasizes how humans interact with ecosystems to
maintain long-term sustainable resource yields. Common pool resources
include many forests, fisheries, oil fields, grazing lands, and irrigation
systems. She conducted her field studies on the management of pasture by
locals in Africa and irrigation systems management in villages of western
Nepal. Ostrom’s work has considered how societies have developed diverse
institutional arrangements for managing natural resources and avoiding
ecosystem collapse in many cases, even though some arrangements have failed
to prevent resource exhaustion. Her current work emphasizes the multifaceted
nature of human–ecosystem interaction and argues against any singular
“panacea” for individual social-ecological system problems.[*citation
needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
*]
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.