Success on the commons
Environment, Law, and History
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Last year Environmental History published a review by Frederica Bowcutt of Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises: Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene , by David Barton Bray (U. Arizona Press, 2020). Some excerpts: According to Bray, Garrett Hardin justified enclosure and centralized land management based on an ahistorical understanding; shared-pool commons have always been regulated by rules to prevent overuse.
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