TY - JOUR
T1 - Shared patterns in long-term dynamics of commons as institutions for collective action
AU - Farjam, Mike
AU - De Moor, Tine
AU - van Weeren, René
AU - Forsman, Anders
AU - Dehkordi, Molood Ale Ebrahim
AU - Ghorbani, Amineh
AU - Bravo, Giangiacomo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, project MIDI: Modelling institutional dynamics in historical commons (https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/forskningsprojekt/project-modelling-institutional-dynamics-in-historical-commons/). Additional support and access to computing facilities were provided by the Linnaeus University Center for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications, DISA (https://lnu.se/disa).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase was followed by a relatively long period of stability and a final burst of activities, possibly in an attempt to respond to new challenges. In addition, most of the initial regulatory activities focused on resource use, while towards the end other activities prevailed. Our approach allows for a better understanding of institutional dynamics and our findings also provide important insights about how to regulate the use of current natural resources.
AB - We present an analysis of regulatory activities in historical commons offering a unique picture of their long-term institutional dynamics. The analysis took into account almost 3,800 regulatory activities in eighteen European commons in two countries across seven centuries. Despite differences in time and space, we found a shared pattern where an initial, highly-dynamic institutional-definition phase was followed by a relatively long period of stability and a final burst of activities, possibly in an attempt to respond to new challenges. In addition, most of the initial regulatory activities focused on resource use, while towards the end other activities prevailed. Our approach allows for a better understanding of institutional dynamics and our findings also provide important insights about how to regulate the use of current natural resources.
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U2 - 10.5334/ijc.959
DO - 10.5334/ijc.959
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079598746
VL - 14
SP - 78
EP - 90
JO - International Journal of the Commons
JF - International Journal of the Commons
SN - 1875-0281
IS - 1
ER -