Institutional property rights structure, common pool resource (CPR), tragedy of the urban commons: A Review

8th International Symposium of the Digital Earth

地球科学;计算机科学

Ling, G.^1 ; Ho, C.S.^1 ; Ali, H.M.^2

Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia^1

Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia^2

关键词: Common pool resources;    Institutional properties;    Institutional structure;    Open access resources;    Overexploitation;    Property right;    Public open spaces;    Resource domains;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012184/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012184

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

There have been a plethora of researches on the significance of public open space (POS) in contributing to societies' sustainability. However, by virtue of identified maladaptive policy-based-property rights structure, such a shared good becomes vulnerable to tragedy of the urban commons (overexploitation) that subsequently leads to burgeoning number of mismanaged POS e.g., degraded and unkempt urban public spaces. By scrutinising the literatures within property rights domain and commons resources, an objective is highlighted in this paper which is to insightfully discourse institutional property rights structure pertaining to the mechanism, roles and interrelationship between property-rights regimes, bundle of property rights and resource domains; types of goods on how they act upon and tie in the POS with the social quandary. In summary, urban POS tragedy can potentially be triggered by the institutional structure especially if the ownership is left under open-access resource regime and ill-defined property rights which both successively constitute the natures of Common Pool Resource (CPR) within the commons, POS. Therefore, this paper sparks an idea to policy makers that property rights structure is a determinant in sustainably governing the POS in which adaptive assignment of property regimes and property rights are impelled.