Squatting
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A celebration and documentation of Australians putting abandoned and disused property to good use.
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commons that are working
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Right to Roam
Post thumbnailOurs is a wild and a beautiful island. But the vast majority of it is unknown to us because, by law of trespass, we are banned from setting foot on it. We are excluded from hundreds of thousands of acres of open space – of woodland, meadows, rivers and their banks – simply because ancient laws of ownership fail to recognise the importance of nature to the public.
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Doughnut Economics
Post thumbnailhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/doughnut-growth-economics-book-economic-model In Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Kate Raworth of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute reminds us that economic growth was not, at first, intended to signify wellbeing. Simon Kuznets, who standardised the measurement of growth, warned: “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of…
Read More Doughnut EconomicsPrivate Sufficiency, Public Luxury
How is it possible to own land? I find it remarkable that this basic question is so seldom asked. The current pattern of ownership and control of land lies at the heart of many of our biggest dysfunctions: the collapse of wildlife and ecosystems, the exclusion and marginalization of so many people, the lack of housing in many cities—indeed, in many parts of the world—the lack of public space in cities, our exclusion from the countryside.
Read More Private Sufficiency, Public LuxuryElinor Ostrom – Wikipedia
Ostrom’s law is an adage that represents how Elinor Ostrom’s works in economics challenge previous theoretical frameworks and assumptions about property, especially the commons. Ostrom’s detailed analyses of functional examples of the commons create an alternative view of the arrangement of resources that are both practically and theoretically possible. This eponymous law is stated succinctly by Lee Anne Fennell as:
A resource arrangement that works in practice can work in theory.[43]
Read More Elinor Ostrom – WikipediaAbout the Commons – The International Association for the Study of the Commons
What are commons? The original meaning of the term ‘commons’ comes from the way communities managed land that was held ‘in common’ in medieval Europe. Along with this shared land a clear set of rules was developed by the community about how it was to be used. Over time, the term ‘commons’ has taken on…
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