Appendix D: Elinor Ostrum’s Eight Design Principles for Successful Commons

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Appendix D shares briefly Elinor Ostrum’s design principles for commons from her 1990 book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action.

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Contributors

David Bollier

David Bollier is the Director of Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, and author of Think Like a Commoner. He blogs at Bollier.org and lives in Amherst, MA.

Silke Helfrich

Silke Helfrich is an independent activist, author, scholar, and speaker. She co-founded the Commons Strategies Group and Commons-Institut in Germany, blogs in German at commons.blog, and lives in Neudenau, Germany.