Topics
Common Pool Resources
Goods or services that have characteristics of rivalry in consumption and non-excludability - grazing land or fish stocks are examples. The over-exploitation of common resources can lead to the "tragedy of the commons".
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Environmental Economics - How to Stop Deforestation?
2nd November 2022
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Tragedy of the Commons Short Answers
Topic Videos
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Resource Scarcity
Topic Videos
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Can New England's cod fishing industry survive?
6th July 2020
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Coronavirus risk - game theory meets the tragedy of the commons
24th March 2020
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Tragedy of the Commons - How the scramble for sand is destroying the Mekong
22nd December 2019
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Tragedy of the Commons - Cod stocks on course to crash
26th January 2019
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External Costs of Pollution from Plastic
Study Notes
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Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem
10th December 2017
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Rhino poaching, property rights and the economics of trading horns
15th November 2017
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Women who changed the world: Elinor Ostrom
30th July 2017