• Course Overview
  • Course Resources
  • Week 1: Introduction and history of theory in Ecological Anthropology
  • Week 2: Human behavioral ecology
  • Week 3: Collective action and cooperation
  • Week 4: Common pool resources
  • Week 5: Social-relational approaches
  • Week 6: Networks and Resource Management
  • Week 7: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene
  • Week 8: Signaling theory and symbolic capital
  • Week 9: Ethnoecology
  • Week 10: Cultural domain analysis and Decolonizing ecological knowledge
  • Week 11: Resource access: Territorality and Frontiers
  • Week 12: Resource access: Dispossession and Rights
  • Week 13: Political ecology - conservation and science
  • Week 14: Resilience and complex adaptive systems

ANTH722: Ecological Anthropology

Week 4: Common pool resources

Class agenda

  • Sustainability Game: Commons game
  • Grant discussion: Grant Abstracts
  • Lectures
  • Reading discussion

Reading

  • Ostrom, E., Burger, J., Field, C.B., Norgaard, R.B. and Policansky, D., 1999. Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges. science, 284(5412), pp.278-282.
  • Ostrom, E., 2009. A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science, 325(5939), pp.419-422.
  • Dietz, T., Ostrom, E. and Stern, P.C., 2003. The struggle to govern the commons: Tragedy of the commons?. Science (Washington, DC), 302(5652), pp.1907-1912.
  • Acheson, J.M., 2006. Institutional failure in resource management. Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 35(1), pp.117-134.
  • Agrawal, A., 2003. Sustainable governance of common-pool resources: context, methods, and politics. Annual review of anthropology, 32(1), pp.243-262.

Media

  • Planet Money: The great German land lottery
  • The G Word clip – Weather Forecasts as a Club Good (short clip but may take several tries to load fully)
  • The G Word clip – GPS as a Public Good (short clip but may take several tries to load fully)

Assignments due for class discussion

  • Research Questions and Intellectual Merit