THE CHALLENGE OF HARDIN’S IDEA ON THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
ABSTRACT: According to
Based on Hardin’s
view’s model, pasture
land and other resources held
in common have
usually been freely
utilized by everyone
without any incentive for
conserving and are therefore susceptible to “the tragedy of the commons”. In
addition, the common property resources can be managed properly only by either
the institution of private
or government action.
However, on the
basis of based
on case studies from different
societies in many regions undertaken by a number of scholars, the commons-property
resources, such as marines, rangelandsrangelands, and forests, have not always
been degraded. This
is because the
common property resources
are not always to open to all and
freely utilized by anyone. Moreover, in reality, both private property and
government have not
always effectively managed
the common property resources. As a result, the Hardin’s
view has been criticized by a number of scholars of post Hardinian
view. there is a basic
philosophical difference in the use
of the term “common property” between Hardin’s view
and the contra Hardin view. According to Hardin, common-property resources are
open to all. As a result, these common-property resources have been freely
utilized by anyone and are prone to degradation. However, according to contra Hardin,
the common-property resources are not always ownerless but in some
cases are owned
by well-defined social
groups, for example,
the local communities who manage
the common-property resources. This paper describes the ideas that challenge
the theory of
f Garret Hardin,
namely “the tragedy
of the commons” revealed by
Garret Hardin which who assumes , particularly in relation to the view that common-property
resources are always susceptible to degradation.
Author: Johan Iskandar
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologigg060003
