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For a common property management system to work, it is essential that it is allowed at least some measure of autonomy from higher or non-local authorities. Imagine dedicating several years of careful work in developing a community management system of fishers, only to have a government official from a distant municipality arrive, review the rules, and begin meddling with their specifics. Where this can be expected to happen, it is unlikely fishers would take the time and effort to craft such a system in the first place.

Given the apparent complexity of making common property systems work, it would seem they would be very rare indeed! Nothing could be further from the truth. The world is brimming with “commons,” once a neo-institutional eye is brought to bear on the question. Indeed, it is a sad commentary on our prevailing collective wisdom that cooperation is treated as an oddity or an exception, when indeed it is quite often the rule.