Commons
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The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit. Characteristically, this involves a variety of informal norms and values (social practice) employed for a governance mechanism.
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Historical land commons movements
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Contemporary commons movements
- Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa
- The Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee in India
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The EZLN in Mexico
- Fanmi Lavalas in Haiti
- Geolibertarianism primarily in the US
- The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil
- The Land is Ours in the UK
- The Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil
- Movement for Justice en el Barrio in the United States of America
- Narmada Bachao Andolan in India
- Take Back the Land in the US
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See also
- Common good
- Common ownership
- Creative Commons
- Copyleft
- Common land – Account of historical and present common land use, mainly British Isles.
- Global commons
- Game theory
- Homo reciprocans
- Network effect
- The Magic Cauldron – essay on the open source economic model
- Tragedy of the anticommons
- International Association for the Study of the Commons
- Patentleft
- Tyranny of small decisions
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