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... Haunting thoughtful people everywhere is the prospect of a "tragedy of the commons," in which, for lack of an effective governance mechanism, an entire resource is annihilated by the collective rational actions of all the individuals who depend on it. The policies of a country take precedence over those of its individual government agencies.
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... 26 The Privatization of Environmental Data
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