Constructing a climate change logic
Research into conventional and unconventional 'commons' or shared resources is attracting the interest of global companies, states, NGOs and other stakeholders, according to Dr Shahzad Ansari, who argues that identifying certain aspects of human activity as 'commons' - like air and water pollution, over-fishing, de-forestation and land overuse - before major tragedies could enable people to assume far greater collective responsibility.