Landscapes Links

General

• The International Association for the Study of the Commons - “devoted to understanding and improving institutions for the management of resources that are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities in developing or developed countries” - a large amount of commons-related materials
• The Digital Library of the Commons - categorized commons-related academic resources
• Environmental History Resources – a scholarly website with many relevant links and materials

General (Canada):

• The Forest History Society (Canada) - an environmental history resource page with many links related to the history of public land administration in Canada
• Association for Literature, the Environment and Culture in Canada – containing links and resources on the history and representation of public landscapes in Canada

General Bibliographies, Articles and Online Academic Publications:

• The Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons - a searchable database of academic publications on the history of common lands and spaces
• Commons Bibliography – a categorized bibliography of commons-related publications
• The Commons Digest – The quarterly publication of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), 1986 to current
• Commons-related full-text articles - hosted on the IASC website
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution and Diversity Studies to 1950 - bibliography and full-text archive
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution and Diversity Studies, 1951-1975 - bibliography and full-text archive
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Online Bibliography - citations, abstracts and public documents

Common and Public Land in Canada - Online Publications:

• Canada's Fisheries – produced by the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, in cooperation with Canadian Heritage Canadian Studies Programme
• A Short History of the Clergy Reserves
• John Strachan and Clergy Reserves – Bishop Charles Henry Mockridge's 1896 account of the clergy reserve land management system in Upper and Lower Canada
• Canada and the Tragedy of the Commons – an article from Outlook Magazine
• Natasha Loder, Point of No Return (2005) - fisheries and the commons in North America (from Conservation Magazine)
• Fished Out: the Rise and Fall of the Cod Fishery – a CBC Digital Archives multimedia site

Common and Public Landscapes in Canada: Topical Academic Publications and Conference Papers From the Digital Library of the Commons:

• Russell Barsh, "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and its modern application in the context of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)" (pdf)
• Lloyd N. Binder, "The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic and Resource Co-management Under a Land Claims Settlement" (1994)(pdf)
• Elizabeth Bennett, "Institutions, economics and conflicts: fisheries management under pressure" (2000) (pdf)
• Nir Becker and K. William Easter, "Independent Versus Unified Management for the Great Lakes Basin" (1991) (pdf)
• Fikret Berkes, "Do Resource Users Learn from Management Disasters? Indigenous Management and Social Learning in James Bay" (pdf)
• Parzival Copes, "The Profits of Justice: Restoring Aboriginal River Fisheries in British Columbia" (1995) (pdf)
• Francisco Dionisio and Isabel Gordo, "The tragedy of the commons, the public goods dilemma, and the meaning of rivalry and excludability in evolutionary biology" (2006) (pdf)
• Martha Dowsley, "The Role of Regional Government in Sustainable Use of Common Pool Resources: the Case of Polar Bear Management" (pdf)
• Roy C. Dudgeon, "A Political Anthropology of TEK in the Canadian Subarctic" (pdf)
• Dennis R. Fox, "Psychology, Ideology, Utopia and the Commons" (1985) (pdf)
• Stig Gezelius, "The Morality of Compliance in Coastal Fisheries: Cases from Norway and Newfoundland" (2003) (pdf)
• R. Hannesson, Sustainability of Fisheries (2008) (pdf)
• Christopher Hannibal-Paci, "Lake Sturgeon: The Historical Geography of Lake Winnipeg Fishery Commons"
• Leslie Main Johnson, "People, Place and Season: Reflections on Gwich’in Ordering of Access to Resources in an Arctic Landscape" (2000) (pdf)
• Anne Kendrick, "Learning Conceptual Diversity through Caribou Co-management" (2000) (pdf)
• Nobuhiro Kishigami, "Co-Management of Beluga Whales in Nunavik (Arctic Quebec), Canada" (pdf)
• Gary Kofinas, A Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic (pdf)
• Gary Kofinas, "Subsistence Hunting in a Global Economy Contributions of Northern Wildlife Co-Management to Community Economic Development" (1993) (pdf)
• Bonnie J. McCay, "'That's Not Right': Resistance to Enclosure in Newfoundland Fisheries" (1995) (pdf)
• Frank Millerd, “The Evolution of Management of the Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery” (2000) (pdf)
• Darcy A. Mitchell, "When Communities Collide: Sorting out the Partners in Co-Management of Britsih Columbia Fisheries" (pdf)
• Brenda Parlee, Fikret Berkes, “A Case Study on Berry Harvesting from Northern Canada” (pdf)
• Walter B. Parker, “Circumpolar Oil and Gas Prospects: The Role of the Commons” (pdf)
• Marilyn K. Peckett, Narrowing the Road: Co-Management with Anishnabe at the Riding Mountain National Park" (pdf)
• Evelyn Pinkerton, "Factors in Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Co-management in British Columbia Salmon Fisheries"(1999) (pdf)
• Mark Robson, Shashi Kant, “...A Comparative Case Study of Community-based Forest Management in Ontario” (2004) (pdf)
• Janet Winbourne, "Meeting Needs: A Consideration of the Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy and the Future of Food Fisheries Management" (pdf)

  Commons-related Book Reviews Online:

  • Whyte on Moore, et al., The Management of Common Land in North West Europe (2003)
  • Lee on Dietz, et al., The Drama of the Commons (2002)

  Classics/Supplemental Reading

  • Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1799)
  • William Forster Lloyd, Two Lectures on the Checks to Population (1831) (pdf)
  • Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (1968) (pdf)
  • Ursula Franklin, Science and the Notion of the Commons (1994) (pdf)

  Commons-related NGO's and Advocacy Groups:

  • OnTheCommons.org – dedicated to “advancing public understanding of the commons and uncovering new strategies for its protection and expansion”
  • Property Task Force – Privatizing Crown Land in Canada
  • The Green Pages Canada
  • DieOff.org
  • The “Tragedy of the Commons” Resource Page from DieOff.org
  • A “Tragedy of the Commons” Schematic and Examples – visual and mathematical models of the “tragedy of the commons” thesis by Systems-Thinking.org
  • TextbookLeague.org – a public science watchdog that advocates for inclusion of the “tragedy of the commons” thesis in school textbooks
  • The Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition – an umbrella group “dedicated to the conservation and wise stewardship of our common natural heritage”
  • The Commons: Markets Protecting the Environment - a collaborative web log “dedicated to the principle of promoting environmental quality and human dignity and prosperity through markets and property rights”
  • The Talleberg Foundation's Global Commons Page – advocating regulation for the global commons
  • The Library of Economics and Liberty - podcast interview with Bruce Yandle on the “tragedy of the commons” thesis, hosted by EconTalk.org
  • The Trust For Public Land Home Page – nonprofit land conservation advocacy group
  • History and Sustainability – dedicated to the historicization of sustainable development as an idea

  "The Tragedy of the Commons" and Related Links:

  • Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
  • The Garrett Hardin Society - dedicated to the preservation of the writings and ideas of Garrett James Hardin
  • A bibliography of works inspired by Garrett Hardin's 1968 "tragedy of the commons" thesis
  • Tragedy Made Simple (1992) - William J. Bennetta's essay on the “tragedy of the commons” rubric in school textbooks
  • The Commons Blog: Tragedy of the Commons Archive - an archive of related essays and news articles