"In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements."

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Source : Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

Elinor Ostrom

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“Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.”
“I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.”
“When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.”
“Believe, donâ€™t fear, believe.”
“We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.”
“Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.”
“The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it”
“Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am holding this moment up to the light and saying, "Wow, will you look at that?"”

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