Dietz paper

Question 1

What are the 2 human factors that drive environmental change, according to Hardin introduced in the paper?

Answer 1

1. Increasing demand for natural resources and environmental services
2. How humans organize themselves to extract resources from the environment and eject effluents into it. (institutional arrangements)

Question 2

What is Hardin criticized for?

Answer 2

oversimplifying
1. he claimed that only 2-stat established institutional arrangements could sustain commons over the long run.
2 He presumed that resource users were trapped in a common’s dilemma, unable to create solutions

He ignored the possibility of herders being able to develop self-governing institutions to fight resource degradation. Additionally, he obviates that the institutions he argues for do not always work

Question 3

Why is there a struggle to sustain earth’s ability to support diverse live?

Answer 3

It involves making tough decisions under uncertainty, complexity, and substantial biophysical constraints as well as conflicting human values and interests

Question 4

How is effective commons governance achieved?

Answer 4

1. When resources and use of the resources can be monitored, and the information can be verified and understood
2. Rates of change in resources, resource-user populations, technology, and economic and social conditions moderate
3. Communities maintain frequent face-to-face communication and dense social networks - social capital
4. outsiders can be excluded at relatively low cost from using the resource
5. users support effective monitoring and rule enforcing