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Volume 15 - Issue 1 - 2021

Research articles

Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review

Arthur Feinberg, Amineh Ghorbani, Paulien Herder
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):1–20
Food Safety and Value Chain Coordination in the Context of a Transition Economy: The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives

Drini Imami, Vladislav Valentinov, Engjell Skreli
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):21–34
Symmetries and Asymmetries in Collective Management: Comparing Effects on Resilience and Rural Development in Galician Common Lands and the Brazilian Extractive Reserves

Roseni Aparecida de Moura, José Ambrósio Ferreira-Neto, M. Mar Pérez-Fra, Ana Isabel García-Arias
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):35–49
Design Principles of Common Property Institutions: The Case of Farmer Cooperatives in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Jasper Grashuis, Stanley Kojo Dary
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):50–62
Institutional Contexts and Policy Discourses: A Case of Water Quality Governance in Lake Erie Basin

Bereket Isaac, Rob C. de Loë
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):63–81
Assessing Policy Issue Interdependencies in Environmental Governance

Johanna Hedlund, Örjan Bodin, Daniel Nohrstedt
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01 Apr 2021

15 (1):82–99
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries

Maurice Paulissen, Roy van Beek, Serge Nekrassoff, Edward H. Huijbens, Theo Spek
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14 May 2021

15 (1):100–118
Addressing Issues and Challenges in Managing Migratory Tuna Resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Fang Zhao, David Mapuru, Marie-France Waxin, Catherine Prentice, Annibal Scavarda
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14 May 2021

15 (1):119–131
Commons Management in Migrant Communities

Godfreyb Ssekajja
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14 May 2021

15 (1):132–153
Open Source Hardware, Exploring how Industry Regulation Affects Knowledge Commons Governance: An Exploratory Case Study

Pascal Carpentier
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14 May 2021

15 (1):154–169
Social-Ecological Institutional Fit in Volunteer-Based Organizations: A Study of Lake Management Organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Dane Whittaker, Alise Crippen, Corinne Johnson, Marco A. Janssen
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11 Jun 2021

15 (1):181–194
The Courtesan Project and the Tawa’ifs’ Cultural Commons

Sohini Chanda, Archana Patnaik, Suhita Chopra Chatterjee
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16 Jun 2021

15 (1):195–205
Identifying Topics and Trends in the Study of Common-Pool Resources Using Natural Language Processing

Joshua Lambert, Graham Epstein, Jennifer Joel, Jacopo Baggio
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16 Jun 2021

15 (1):206–217
Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Rahul Chaturvedi, Sandeep Kandikuppa, Kaushalendra Rao, Jagdeesh Puppala Rao, Bryan Bruns, Hagar ElDidi
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18 Jun 2021

15 (1):218–235
Environmental Movements in Turkey from the Perspective of Commons

Dalya Hazar Kalonya
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18 Jun 2021

15 (1):236–258
Bundle of Rights Reversed: Anticommons in a Japanese Common Property Forest Due to Legalization

Gakuto Takamura, Takashi Nishide, Yusuke Kanazawa, Masahide Hayashi
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30 Aug 2021

15 (1):259–275
Collective Action Dilemmas at Cultural Heritage Sites: An Application of the IAD-NAAS Framework

Enrico Bertacchini, Peter Gould
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):276–290
Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology

Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson, Max Rozenburg, Matt Ryan, Oliver Escobar
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):291–304
Contested Commoning: Urban Fishing Spaces and Community Wellbeing

Noëlle Boucquey, Jessie Fly
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):305–319
Early Medieval Commons? Or How the History of Early Medieval Europe Could Benefit from a Necessary Conversation: The Case From NW Iberia

Álvaro Carvajal Castro
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):338–353
Mechanism Design in Regional Arrangements for Water Governance

Tomás Olivier
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):354–367
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact

Elia Carceller-Sauras, Insa Theesfeld
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05 Nov 2021

15 (1):368–380
Is the Formalization of Collective Tenure Rights Supporting Sustainable Indigenous Livelihoods? Insights from Comunidades Nativas in the Peruvian Amazon

Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti, Blanca Begert, Miguel Angel Guerra Loza
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05 Nov 2021

15 (1):381–394
Understanding Collective Action from Mexican Fishers’ Discourses: How Fishers Articulate the Need for the State Support and Self-Governance Capabilities

Crisol Méndez-Medina, Alejandro García-Lozano, Amy Hudson Weaver, Salvador Rodríguez Van Dyck, María Tercero, Mateja Nenadovic, Xavier Basurto
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05 Nov 2021

15 (1):395–413
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons

John Stephen Lansing, Ning Ning Chung, Lock Yue Chew, Guy S. Jacobs
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11 Nov 2021

15 (1):414–430

Review articles

Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects

Raymond Yu Wang, Tipeng Chen
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17 Sep 2021

15 (1):320–337

About this Journal

The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.

These resources may be part of the natural world (e.g. forests, climate systems, or the oceans) or they may be created (e.g. infrastructures such as irrigation systems, the internet or (scientific) knowledge, for example of the sort that is published in open-access journals).

The IJC is an initiative of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).

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