common-pool resources
Common-pool resources are natural or man-made resources that are available to multiple individuals or groups, where one person's use or consumption of the resource reduces its availability or quality for others, creating the potential for overuse or degradation of the resource.
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Related Concepts (22)
- air pollution
- climate change
- common grazing lands
- community-based conservation
- deforestation
- fish stocking
- free rider problem
- global commons
- groundwater depletion
- international treaties on shared resources
- land degradation
- open-access fisheries
- overfishing
- public goods provision
- renewable energy resources
- shared water resources
- soil erosion
- sustainable resource management
- tragedy of the commons
- urban commons
- waste management
- water scarcity