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Urban Commons and Collective Action to Address Climate Change [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
Climate change and the coupled loss of ecosystem services pose major collective action problems in that all individuals would benefit from better cooperation to address these problems but conflicting interests and/or incomplete knowledge discourage joint
Johan Colding   +4 more
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Urban Commons in Italy

open access: yesFIU Law Review
The Italian experience with urban commons has been very rich indeed. In the last ten years or so the number of social and legal initiatives relating to urban commons in Italy has exploded. The present Italian situation shows that urban commons are here to stay.
Graziadei, Michele
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English Urban Commons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and
Rodgers, Christopher   +8 more
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Of urban commons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Last summer visitors to the Oslo opera house were met with the following announcement: “Here comes the “Opera Commons” explaining: “Operaallmenningen”, the Opera Commons, “will be a multi-functional meeting place for cultural events, recreational activities and people passing through.” The choice of “allmenning” (commons) to designate a place that is ...
Berge, Erling
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Gender and the Urban Commons in India: An Overview of Scientific Literature and the Relevance of a Feminist Political Ecology Perspective

open access: yesInternational Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2020
Traditionally, the concept of the commons implied a rural commons, an area of common usage for agricultural or pastoral purposes. As increasing numbers of people migrate to cities, however, sociological studies have focused on urban issues, of which the
Manisha Rao
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics and Aesthetics of the Urban Commons: Navigating the Gaze of the City, the State, the Market

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
This thematic issue puts “urban commoning” centre stage. Urban commoning constitutes the practice of sharing urban resources (space, streets, energy, and more) through principles of inclusion and cooperation.
Louis Volont, Peer Smets
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Commons from an Anti-Capitalist Approach

open access: yesPartecipazione e Conflitto, 2020
Many of the contemporary debates on urban commons lack an anti-capitalist approach. In addition, a number of misunderstandings regarding the common wealth, the city, the state, and the public sphere do not help to clarify the meaning of the commons. As a
Miguel A. Martínez
doaj   +3 more sources

(Re)gaining the urban commons: everyday, collective, and identity resistance

open access: yes, 2022
This paper examines the everyday, collective, and identity resistance mobilized by the urban poor to (re)gain their right to the commons and contest urban exclusion.
Jessica Pérez Reynosa   +5 more
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Characterisation and typology of urban wetlands in Ghana: Implications for the governance of urban commons in secondary cities in Africa

open access: yesUrban Governance, 2021
Urban wetlands continue to provide essential ecosystem services to the urban populace and are largely seen as urban commons that need to be managed properly for continuous wise use of wetlands.
E.D. Kuusaana   +3 more
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The Social Aesthetics of Cultural Commons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this chapter, Cultural Commons are placed within sociological aesthetics to grasp this emerging social form's imagery. A series of questions revolve around the issue: Do commons reveal of the representation of collective life?
Letteria G. Fassari
core   +3 more sources

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