Is there an Opposite to the Tragedy of the Commons

Read the first four pages of this article.


How are NIMBY or LULU similar or different to the concept of the Tragedy of the Commons?

Pick a commons area.  Explain what it is and why it matters, if there is current exploitation of the area, and regulation for the area to limit the exploitation. Decide if NIMBY or LULU affect this commons.  Out line your summary of important ideas in a poster or blog post


===============for people who were gone on Thursday--pick one of these=============

• logging old-growth forests
• Fukoshima nuclear power plant
• North Dakota pipeline spills
• garbage dump mining
• Gulf of Mexico dead zone
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• national forest lands

• the Alaskan National Wildlife Preserve
• the predator-prey balance in Yellowstone

• the oil shale in Oklahoma
• International fishing waters
• International fishing waters2

• the Pacific Ocean dump

• the Western expansion and its impact on buffalo
• the Yucca mountain development.