Sökning: "the commons"
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1. Making Commons : attempts at composing prospects in the opening of production
Sammanfattning : This thesis accounts for a designerly inquiry into the swamp of the opening of production. The “opening of production” refers to the rising of openness, collaboration and sharing in processes through which things are made and service delivered. LÄS MER
2. The Shepherds of Þjórsárver. : Traditional Use and Hydropower Development in the Commons of the Icelandic Highland
Sammanfattning : This study explores a damming dispute that has been going on for over four decades in Iceland, about whether a dam, Norðlingaölduveita, should be built in the central highland, near the glacier Hofsjökull and the wetland reserve Þjórsárver, or not. The study focuses on the local resistance against the dam, led by a group of people in the farming community Gnúpverjahreppur, which has its highland grazing commons in the Þjórsárver area. LÄS MER
3. Commons protected for or from the people? : Co-management in the Swedish mountain region?
Sammanfattning : Protected areas have so far been the primary means to conserve biodiversity, an increasingly important environmental issue, but proposals to establish protected areas are often met by local resistance due to fears that user rights will be severely restrained. Nature conservation traditionally aims to preserve an ideal state of nature, in which interference by people is minimized through a number of regulations, and where central authorities are in charge. LÄS MER
4. The Common Good in Common Goods - The Decommodification of Fundamental Resources through Law
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is divided into three parts. Part I analyzes the Commons as a post-capitalist strategy accomplished through law by developing an alternative social theory of the market as a social institution. LÄS MER
5. The Tragedy of the Global Commons in Public International Law
Sammanfattning : To what extent does public international law that generally applies in our global commons enable a tragedy of the commons in the global commons? The theory of the tragedy of the commons describes the plights of overuse and degradation that shared resources face when subject to, inter alia, a freedom of use, and the theory is often applied to criticize certain positive emanations of public international law in the global commons. As the theory is routinely used in the context of economic approaches to law and commons, the method employed is a positive economic analysis of international law. LÄS MER
