Tragedy Of Enclosure Analysis

The commons are the natural resources available to all members of a society or community. The natural resources include water, air, animals, plants. These materials are not owned privately, they are held in common. Hardin’s main assumption about the commons can be separated in three categories; the world is biophysically finite, over-population can be considered as an example of the tragedy of the commons, and the system commons for breeding must be abandoned. The tragedy of the commons continues to be so popular because it has “…. become part of the conventional wisdom in environmental studies, resource science and policy, economics ecology, and political science and is featured in textbooks…. It has also been used in formulating resource-management …show more content…
It appeared to have some answer to the growing problem of how to prevent and end starvation. Many countries with independent government that were looking for a dramatic change, so they made the transfer of land from tribal peoples to an individual that they truest. Hardin missed an essential point in his argument that the individual who was going to be in charge of the land would prioritize money instead of sustainability of the land and the people. George Monbiot in the article “The Tragedy of Enclosure” points out that Hardin argument had one flaw. It’s that Hardin assumes that individual can be selfish as they like to commons, but “[i]n reality, traditional commons are closely regulated by the people who live there.” This is one of the ways that Hardin argument is wrong people who live in a community have a much better understanding of their resources than an outsider. So, they can manage their resources better. The only occasion that Hardin argument can be applied if there is not ownership. One example of this can be the oceans, it is not owned by anyone, and it is poorly regulated. People over-fished and polluted the waters by throwing waste of plastic and other things. Nations must come to a pact to stop this free-for-all and end the pollution of the oceans because it affects all of …show more content…
The world exclusion means the power to exclude people other than members of a community. Feeney claimed in “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-Two Years Later” that “Evidence suggest that successful exclusion under communal property is the rule rather than exception.” Japan provides with many examples of successful communal property system. Fishing communities hold legal exclusion fishing rights in coastal areas. Feeney said, “Even when there is no legal recognition of communal property, the exclusion of outsider by local users through such means as threats and surreptitious violence is not uncommon.” People in these communities do whatever they need to secure their commons and something that lead to