Common Pool Resource Management. The paper argues that the individual rational resource user encapsulated in the cpr design principles struggles to provide clear direction for meaningful consideration of local norms values and interests in commons projects. Some classic examples of common pool resources are fisheries forests underwater basins and irrigation systems.
This is the tendency for individual users to exploit limited resources to capture benefits that would otherwise go to their competitors. Common pool resources cpr such as forests underground water basins grasslands and fisheries are often managed by a combination of government action and market mechanisms. The paper argues that the individual rational resource user encapsulated in the cpr design principles struggles to provide clear direction for meaningful consideration of local norms values and interests in commons projects.
This paper discusses how the theoretical assumptions of common pool resource cpr theory may have inadvertently contributed to the unfulfilled expectations of commons projects.
In economics a common pool resource is a type of good consisting of a natural or human made resource system whose size or characteristics makes it costly but not impossible to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use. Common pool resources cpr such as forests underground water basins grasslands and fisheries are often managed by a combination of government action and market mechanisms. Some classic examples of common pool resources are fisheries forests underwater basins and irrigation systems. Common pool resource a resource made available to all by consumption and to which access can be limited only at high cost.
