Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a free-market economy.
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Wikipedia’s editors and articles reflect and reinforce a lack of diversity.
When forest communities have secure rights and tenure, the results can be miraculous.
Piecemeal legislation is easily unpicked, as the recent high court ruling showed.
The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
US and international law conflicts about who would be in charge if a private company established a Moon base or colonized Mars.
Air conditioning isn’t the answer for everyone, especially for residents of the less affluent – and often hotter – suburbs of our big cities. But there are other ways to make hot days more bearable.
Trees and the shade they provide are one of the best ways of cooling cities. But they also present challenges that are best resolved by managing this shared resource as part of an urban commons.
Since the feudal ages, fences have become a symbol of separation and ownership. Now, sensors and technology allow for a system of pooling resources which is not only sustainable but also productive.
Born seemingly spontaneously out of a desire to create and manage shared spaces, Madrid’s “citizen laboratories” are using new tools to build a new vision of how cities should be planned and run.
In the face of alienation and concentration of power by big corporations, local DIY organisations promote place-based organic internet solutions.
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Professor, Social Design, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Interdisciplinary researcher on hybrid space and peer-to-peer systems, ETH Zurich
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Agriculture, CQUniversity Australia
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Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Postgraduate Researcher, Climate Adaptation, University of Manchester
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Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media, Universitat de Barcelona (UB); Director of the PhD Programme in Information and Communication; and Rector’s Delegate for the Direction of the Equality Unit., Universitat de Barcelona
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Directeur de l'agence Villes Innovations, Chercheur associé au laboratoire PACTE (Université de Grenoble), Co-fondateur du Laboratoire d’usages culture(s)-art-société (LUCAS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor, English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture; Academic Director, Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Public Engagement, Carleton University