✅3.2.1.5 - The 'Global Commons'

Question 1

What are global commons?

Answer 1

Refers to the resource domains or areas/objects/items that lie outside the political reach of any one country or nation

Question 2

What are examples of the global commons?

Answer 2

Antarctica, outer space, the sea, the atmosphere and increasingly cyberspace

Question 3

What is the common heritage of mankind?

Answer 3

The notion that global commons regarded as beneficial to humanity should not be exploited by individual states or nations

Question 4

Why has improved technology and mineral scarcity increased the need for the common heritage of mankind?

Answer 4

Because it ensures that all countries have access to resources regardless of development. Technology makes exploitation much easier

Question 5

What is the tragedy of the commons?

Answer 5

That free access and unrestricted demand for finite resource ultimately dooms the resource through over exploitation

Question 6

Why does the tragedy of the commons occur?

Answer 6

Because the benefits of exploitation only apply to those who do it, while the costs affect everyone

Question 7

Who proposed the tragedy of the commons?

Answer 7

Garret Hardin

Question 8

What is likely to be over-exploited?

Answer 8

Any shared resources

Question 9

What must be acknowledged by sustainable development?

Answer 9

The need to protect the global commons

Question 10

Tragedy of the commons - bluefin tuna

Answer 10

. Tuna population in danger
. ICCAT formed to protect them but many nations ignore it
. Fished to extinction in the Black Sea

Question 11

Tragedy of the commons - passenger pigeons

Answer 11

. Forests cleared where they live
. Have been hunted as a food source
. Nearly all had been killed in 1870 and last one died in 1914

Question 12

Tragedy of the commons - earth’s atmosphere

Answer 12

Greenhouse gases

Question 13

Tragedy of the commons - loggin

Answer 13

Removal of forests for timber products