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Conservation and Cooperation

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons explores how communities manage shared resources sustainably through collective action and self-governance.

Conservation and Cooperation

Cooperate to save a changing planet

This study underscores the global value of Indigenous and local knowledge in biodiversity conservation.

Conservation and Cooperation

The Promise of Collective Action for Large-Scale Commons Dilemmas

Reflections on Common-Pool-Resource Theory

Conservation and Cooperation

Roadmap for Collective Action: Inspiring Change for People and Nature

This roadmap outlines strategies for collective action to address environmental challenges through community engagement and behavior change initiatives.

Conservation and Cooperation

Dynamics of collective action to conserve a large common-pool resource

The study explores how polarisation in collective action on large-scale common-pool resources can be overcome through cooperation, network connectivity, and external influences for effective conservation.

Conservation and Cooperation

Dynamic Collective Action and the Power of Large Numbers

Conservation and Cooperation

The 12 conditions that support and sustain collective action for people and nature

Credit: Photos – Arundhati Saikia (cover), Getty Images, Kalyan Varma