Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Tragedy of the commons

[Brian Bartholomew (bb]

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-pool_resource identifies 8
> conditions from Ostrom

Those 8 conditions don't seem sufficient -- what makes those
limitations on unlimited consumption be accepted as binding by a
majority rule of users in the first place?

I suspect there is a political/emotional (majority rule/love) binding
that must exist first among most of the users.  Perhaps those form
along tribal/family/cultural lines formed by marriage or shared
history ("Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride").

And since these 8 rules are based on voting, there is little of
consensus about it.
                                                        Brian