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Encyclopedia: Tragedy of the commons
The Tragedy of the Commons is a type of social trap, often economic, that involves a conflict over finite resources between individual interests and the common good. The term derives originally from ...
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The tragedy of the commons develops in this way. Picture a pasture open to all. It is to be expected that each herdsman will try to keep as many cattle as possible on the commons. The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all,
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Oct 15, 2009 The 2009 Nobel Prize for economics is a useful reminder of how easy it is for scientists to go wrong, especially when their mistake jibes...
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The tragedy of the commons also arose in the savings and loan (S&L) crisis. The federal government created this tragedy by forming the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC).
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Description of the tragedy of the commons. Ecologist Garrett Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" (Hardin, 1968) has proven a useful concept for understanding how we have come to be at the brink of numerous environmental catastrophes.
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Human Carrying Capacity, Herschel Elliott, Tragedy of the Commons, Garett Hardin, Ethics, Ethical theory, Moral theory, Morals, Moral beliefs, Human Overpopulation, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Wackernagel, Rees, Pimentel, Ecology, Economics, Ecological Economics, Science, Environment, and Politics. In both cases,
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The natural and social sciences have recognized for some time that when rational agents use a shared resource (a ``commons'') near its capacity, the resource is doomed. This is the tragedy of the commons. The same problem will also arise when agents in a distributed AI system share a resource.
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Hardin employed a key metaphor, the Tragedy of the Commons (ToC) to show why. The remorseless and tragic result of each person thinking this way, however, is ruin of the commons, and thus of everyone using it. 2. Over-population is an example of the tragedy of the commons (ToC).
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Tragedy of the Commons?; (12 Dec. 2003); Special Issue Contents; Web Resources; To complement Science's "Tragedy of the Commons?" special issue, we've put together a special set of online resources, including Garrett Hardin's original 1968 article and some of the feedback it generated, other Science publications by...
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