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)”
- Lloyd N. Binder, “The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic and Resource Co-management Under a Land Claims Settlement” (1994)
- Elizabeth Bennett, “Institutions, economics and conflicts: fisheries management under pressure” (2000)
- Nir Becker and K. William Easter, “Independent Versus Unified Management for the Great Lakes Basin” (1991)
- Fikret Berkes, “Do Resource Users Learn from Management Disasters? Indigenous Management and Social Learning in James Bay”
- Parzival Copes, “The Profits of Justice: Restoring Aboriginal River Fisheries in British Columbia” (1995)
- 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)
- Martha Dowsley, “The Role of Regional Government in Sustainable Use of Common Pool Resources: the Case of Polar Bear Management”
- Roy C. Dudgeon, “A Political Anthropology of TEK in the Canadian Subarctic”
- Dennis R. Fox, “Psychology, Ideology, Utopia and the Commons” (1985)
- Stig Gezelius, “The Morality of Compliance in Coastal Fisheries: Cases from Norway and Newfoundland” (2003)
- R. Hannesson, Sustainability of Fisheries (2008)
- 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)
- Anne Kendrick, “Learning Conceptual Diversity through Caribou Co-management” (2000)
- Nobuhiro Kishigami, “Co-Management of Beluga Whales in Nunavik (Arctic Quebec), Canada”
- Gary Kofinas, A Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic
- Gary Kofinas, “Subsistence Hunting in a Global Economy Contributions of Northern Wildlife Co-Management to Community Economic Development” (1993)
- Bonnie J. McCay, “‘That’s Not Right’: Resistance to Enclosure in Newfoundland Fisheries” (1995)
- Frank Millerd, “The Evolution of Management of the Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery” (2000)
- Darcy A. Mitchell, “When Communities Collide: Sorting out the Partners in Co-Management of Britsih Columbia Fisheries”
- Brenda Parlee, Fikret Berkes, “A Case Study on Berry Harvesting from Northern Canada”
- Walter B. Parker, “Circumpolar Oil and Gas Prospects: The Role of the Commons”
- Marilyn K. Peckett, Narrowing the Road: Co-Management with Anishnabe at the Riding Mountain National Park”
- Evelyn Pinkerton, “Factors in Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Co-management in British Columbia Salmon Fisheries”(1999)
- Mark Robson, Shashi Kant, “…A Comparative Case Study of Community-based Forest Management in Ontario” (2004)
- Janet Winbourne, “Meeting Needs: A Consideration of the Aboriginal Fisheries Strategy and the Future of Food Fisheries Management”
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)
- Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
- Ursula Franklin, Science and the Notion of the Commons (1994)
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