The tragedy of the "tragedy of the commons": Why coining too good a phrase can be dangerous

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3141-3150

  Hawkshaw, Robert Stephen ^a   Hawkshaw, Sarah ^b   Sumaila, U Rashid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Fisheries Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fisheries economics; Individual transferable quotas; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872383324     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4113141     Document Type: Article

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