Although the concept of the tragedy of the commons can be traced to Aristotle, the modern application of the concept is closely associated with ecologist Garrett Hardin, who published an article about it in 1968. The commons can be defined as any resource to which all persons have open, free, and unrestrained access. Examples of such shared resources include the atmosphere, rain forests, outer space, oceans, fisheries, and public land. The tragedy of the commons is a situation in which each... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 2p.