View source for Elinor Ostrom’s Eight Commons Governance Design Principles

==Description==

Following her studies of innumerable long-enduring Commons, Ostrom concluded that the following eight “design principles” were essential elements which were always to be found in the way these sustainable CPRs organise themselves.
# Clearly defined boundaries, which define who has access to the CPR. 
# Appropriation and provision rules which are tailored to local conditions.
# Collective-choice arrangements, that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process.
# Effective monitoring (monitors accountable to the appropriators, or are the appropriators )
# Graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate operational community rules.
# Conflict resolution mechanisms that are cheap and rapidly accessed.
# Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities.
# Nested enterprises.  Larger CPRs are organised in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level."

== More Information ==
* [[Elinor Ostrom]]
* See also the three additional principles referred to in [[Commons of Capability]]

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