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title: "commom-pool-resources"
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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