Garrett Hardin’s research while affiliated with University of California, Santa Barbara and other places

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Publications (9)


La tragedia de los comunes
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January 2005

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126 Citations

Garrett Hardin

The Tragedy of the Commons

January 1969

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185 Reads

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6,215 Citations

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The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.






The Tragedy of the Commons

January 1968

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500 Reads

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18,290 Citations

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research

"Technology is not the answer to the population problem. Rather, what is needed is 'mutual coercion mutually agreed upon'--everyone voluntarily giving up the freedom to breed without limit. If we all have an equal right to many 'commons' provided by nature and by the activities of modern governments, then by breeding freely we behave as do herders sharing a common pasture. Each herder acts rationally by adding yet one more beast to his/her herd, because each gains all the profit from that addition, while bearing only a fraction of its costs in overgrazing, which are shared by all the users. The logic of the system compels all herders to increase their herds without limit, with the 'tragic,' i.e. 'inevitable,' 'inescapable' result: ruin the commons. Appealing to individual conscience to exercise restraint in the use of social-welfare or natural commons is likewise self-defeating: the conscientious will restrict use (reproduction), the heedless will continue using (reproducing), and gradually but inevitably the selfish will out-compete the responsible. Temperance can be best accomplished through administrative law, and a 'great challenge...is to invent the corrective feedbacks..to keep custodians honest.'"



Citations (4)


... A key issue in environmental policy is balancing individual interests and the common good (e.g., Hardin, 1968). In this area, game-theory models can model the interactions of multiple agents and show the effects of competing interests. ...

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Incorporating Computational Sustainability into AI Education through -Available, Collectively-Composed Supplementary Lab Text
The Tragedy of the Commons
  • Citing Article
  • January 1968

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research

... Commoning is an alternative approach to resource management. Hardin's 1968 essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" [97] suggests that when a community manages a shared resource without government regulation or privatization, individual self-interest will inevitably lead to overconsumption, pollution, and waste, ultimately ruining the resource. However, Ostrom's [51] vast empirical research has demonstrated that communities can sustainably self-manage common-pool resources without privatization or government intervention. ...

The Tragedy of the Commons
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  • January 1968

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research

... In ecosystems where natural resources are accessed freely and without defined property rights, overexploitation often leads to their depletion and eventual collapse [14,[17][18][19]. Responsible natural resource management has thus become vital for achieving sustainable development and ensuring equitable inclusion of communities [20,21,[21][22][23][24][25]. ...

La tragedia de los comunes
  • Citing Article
  • January 2005

... Overexploitation of marine fisheries are still a severe problem around the world, and in fisheries that have also been densely managed by coastal nations, multiple uncertainties have significantly hampered the effectiveness of traditional fisheries management strategies in replenishing exploited stocks (Li et al., 2020). Garrett Hardin's research (Hardin, 1968), titled "The Tragedy of the Commons," had a significant impact on the wider topic of resource overexploitation. Hardin's model was only qualitative, but it identified patterns of overexploitation of any resource that is exploited at a level quicker than it can reform itself (Perissi et al., 2017). ...

The Tragedy of the Commons
  • Citing Article
  • January 1969

Science