Writings on Commons, Common-Pool Resources, Public Goods, and Cooperation

Writings on Commons, Common-Pool Resources (CPRs), Public Goods (PGs), and Cooperation has a twofold aim: firstly to provide an overview of the different concepts related to Commons, CPRs and PGs in order to help us to clarify their particularities and commonalities, and secondly, to offer some explanations of the phenomenon of cooperation in settings framed by the individuals' actions over the appropriation of CPRs and/or the contribution to PGs, which, in turn, leads to the emergence of conflicting interests in terms of the reasons and benefits involved agents might have in virtue of pursuing a certain behavior - i.e., individually competitive or an individually cooperative behavior. That is, what from the collective point of view is known as a social dilemma.