Effectively Sharing the Commons

When have the commons been effectively shared without being enclosed? (Q&A 1)

The commons are most effectively shared when the groups that are involved in sharing the common are available to communicate with each other. Even before the tragedy of the commons is played out, in which the people sharing the commons fail to act to their mutual benefit, communication can allow these multiple players to work out how it is in their mutual advantage to cooperate.

The commons is in fact the basic mode shared human resources exist in. Private appropriation is a far more artificial treatment of a resource. For example, when a group of people share a house the resources there-in are naturally held in common, no matter who technically owns it. It is merely human that that group establishes rules and procedures to govern the use of bathrooms, the oven, the sink, and so-on, in order for these things to be most effectively used. The commons that are natural resources should also be treated in this way. And while it would be similarly bizarre and detrimental if a person not living in the house controlled the use of it's resources, it would also be detrimental if an external player owned and controlled the commons that is naturally at the disposal of any other group.