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Part IV: Emerging Issues
Part IV: Emerging Issues
Pages 323-326
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But Wilson offers a fresh lens. He focuses on the scientific uncertainty that is inevitable when dealing with complex ecosystems and asks how that uncertainty interacts with the institutions for commons management to produce dire ends.
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Culture determines who is "in" and who is "out." So the problem in designing institutions to manage commons is a problem of creating a shared definition of the "in" group and eliciting solidarity toward it. Like Wilson and McCay, the arguments in this chapter draw on some rather deep currents in contemporary theory.
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The rich theoretical and empirical work that followed allows even more complex questions about emergence, transformation, and dynamics to be raised. This entrains some theoretical approaches at the cutting edge of the social sciences: complexity theory, event ecology, and cultural evolutionary theory.
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