 Understanding Commons and Anticommons in different economic contextsIsmail Azaguagh and Ahmed Driouchi MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: Many common resources are managed under private property rights-based systems. Privatizing these resources leads to fragmented property rights and scattered decisions. Gathering all these rights could lead to higher private and social costs. Heller has described this phenomenon as Anticommons Tragedy, with the resources underused and limited possibilities of innovation and development (Heller, 1998). The concept of Anticommons has been highlighted in the fields of intellectual property, media, and business. Nevertheless, few studies have attempted to shed light on Anticommons in the field of fisheries. The present article attempts to introduce the concepts of Commons and Anticommons, in light of previous studies focusing on the importance of property rights and access modes, for fishery resource management. Access rights management is the main problem that threatens the sustainability of fishery resources. The fisheries involve many interdependent economic stakeholders influencing the decisions of resource utilisation. In this context, the coordination failure leads to a chaotic situation where the fishery resources are underused. Keywords: Commons; fishery resources; Anticommons; access modes; costs (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:116621 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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