When forest communities have secure rights and tenure, the results can be miraculous.
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Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.
The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
US and international law conflicts about who would be in charge if a private company established a Moon base or colonized Mars.
Air conditioning isn’t the answer for everyone, especially for residents of the less affluent – and often hotter – suburbs of our big cities. But there are other ways to make hot days more bearable.
Trees and the shade they provide are one of the best ways of cooling cities. But they also present challenges that are best resolved by managing this shared resource as part of an urban commons.
Since the feudal ages, fences have become a symbol of separation and ownership. Now, sensors and technology allow for a system of pooling resources which is not only sustainable but also productive.
Born seemingly spontaneously out of a desire to create and manage shared spaces, Madrid’s “citizen laboratories” are using new tools to build a new vision of how cities should be planned and run.
In the face of alienation and concentration of power by big corporations, local DIY organisations promote place-based organic internet solutions.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor, Design Studies, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Interdisciplinary researcher on hybrid space and peer-to-peer systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Co-fondateur du Laboratoire d’usages culture(s)-art-société (LUCAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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University of Cape Town
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Professor of Agriculture, CQUniversity Australia
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Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
