Linking Local and Global Commons

在国际一级缺乏中央政治当局意味着，只有各国政府和其他有关组织找到某种相互合作的办法，才能解决全球环境变化问题。共同资源（CPRs）和国际制度的研究人员虽然各自独立工作，而且在很大程度上彼此没有意识到，但他们已经确定了非常相似的设计原则，这些原则是集体行动问题成功的自组织合作解决方案的基础。在这个项目中，研究人员将通过召开一次多学科会议来审查这些相同的理论原则与全球环境变化合作的相关性，在会议上，共同资源和国际制度领域的杰出研究人员以及研究全球环境问题的政治科学家，将提交论文并进行深入讨论。调查人员对环境保护和环境变化感兴趣，不仅是出于科学原因，也是出于政策原因。他们的分析可以帮助从业者设计更有效的制度来保护生态价值。因此，该项目非常符合全球环境变化倡议的人类维度。

The absence of central political authorities at the international level implies that problems of global environmental change can be resolved only if national governments and other relevant organizations find some way to cooperate with each other. Researchers on common pool resources (CPRs) and international regimes, although working separately and for the most part without awareness of each other, have identified remarkably similar design principles underlying successful self-organized cooperative solutions to problems of collective action. In this project, the investigators will examine the relevance of these same theoretical principles to global cooperation on environmental change by convening a multidisciplinary conference in which prominent researchers in the fields of common pool resources and international regimes, along with political scientists who have worked on global environmental problems, will present papers and engage in intensive discussion. The investigators are interested in environmental protection and environmental change for policy as well as scientific reasons. Their analysis may assist practitioners in designing more effective institutions to protect ecological values. Thus, this project fits well under the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Initiative.