TY - BOOK ID - 33276027 TI - Cosmopolitan Commons: Sharing Resources and Risks Across Borders AU - Kranakis, Eda AU - Disco, Cornelis PY - 2013 SN - 9780262313339 9780262019026 9780262518413 9781461931164 1461931169 0262313332 0262518414 9780262313346 0262313340 9781299673939 1299673937 0262019027 PB - [Place of publication not identified] MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Infrastructure (Economics) KW - Natural resources KW - International cooperation KW - Europe KW - Economic integration. KW - E-books KW - Europe -- Economic integration. KW - Infrastructure (Economics) -- Europe. KW - Natural resources -- International cooperation. KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - National resources KW - Resources, Natural KW - Resource-based communities KW - Resource curse KW - Capital, Social (Economics) KW - Economic infrastructure KW - Social capital (Economics) KW - Social infrastructure KW - Social overhead capital KW - Economic development KW - Human settlements KW - Public goods KW - Public works KW - Capital KW - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33276027 AB - "With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional, national, and even transnational space -- nowhere as visibly as in Europe, with its small-scale political divisions. This volume views these shared resource spaces as the seedbeds of a new generation of technology-rich bureaucratic and transnational commons. Drawing on the theory of cosmopolitanism, which seeks to model the dynamics of an increasingly interdependent world, and on the tradition of commons scholarship inspired by the late Elinor Ostrom, the book develops a new theory of "cosmopolitan commons" that provides a framework for merging the study of technology with such issues as risk, moral order, and sustainability at levels beyond the nation-state. After laying out the theoretical framework, the book presents case studies that explore the empirical nuances: airspace as transport commons, radio broadcasting, hydropower, weather forecasting and genetic diversity as information commons, transboundary air pollution, and two "capstone" studies of interlinked, temporally layered commons: one on overlapping commons within the North Sea for freight, fishing, and fossil fuels; and one on commons for transport, salmon fishing, and clean water in the Rhine." ER -