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+title: "commom-pool-resources"
+tags: 
+---
+
+def: a natural or man made resource system that benefits a group of people, but which provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own-self interest. 
+
+resource systems: forests, lakes, internet, windmills
+resource units: tonnes of fish harvested, KWh generators
+
+ensure avg rate of withdrawl does not exceed average rate of renewal
+
+appropriator: people who withdraw or transfer resource units from a resource system
+providers: those who arrange for the provision of a CPR throughh finance or design
+producers: those who construct, repair, and sustain
+
+one person can be all three
+