The tragedy of the water commons: the case of the Lower Orange water management area

In the human environment there is a tendency to refer to resources, such as land and water which do not specifically belong to any single individual, as the ‘commons’. Garret Hardin wrote his famous paper called: “The Tragedy of the Commons” in which he highlighted the problem inhabitants of the wor...

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Main Author: C. M. Gouws
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2008-04-01
Series:The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa
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Online Access:http://www.td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/165