Tragedy of the commons explains resource depletion when individual interests overshadow collective needs. Exploitation examples include Amazon deforestation and fast fashion harming global ecosystems.

This regulation vacuum is leading to a "tragedy of the commons" situation, according to Baker. "Stated simply, the tragedy of the commons is that individuals acting rationally and individually ...

I explain that the exercise was inspired by an ecologist named Garrett Hardin and an address that he delivered 50 years ago this summer, describing what he called “the tragedy of the commons.” ...

In the well-known account of the “tragedy of the commons,” herdsmen graze their cattle on common pastureland. Over time, each herdsman puts as many of his own animals as he can on the pasture ...

I argue, however, that we need a more playful attitude to them. We must avoid being locked in one image, like that of Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons. The image may lead us astray, ignoring ...

Lives depend on keeping SA’s old-growth grasslands healthy. They feed our herds, they’re water factories and they mop up ...

Hardin argued that, when there is unchecked access to a shared but finite resource, individuals will put their self-interest ahead of the common good and thus create a ‘tragedy of the commons.’ ...

The tragedy of the commons is a paradigm for the complete depletion of shared resources. Cape Town avoided a water depletion crisis by playing chicken. Skip to main content ...