Dear Lisa, There are no guarantees of effective management of the commons is a vast literature on the factors that contribute. The Digital Library of the Commons (https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/ ) has thousands of entries. A particularly good starting point is
Cox, M., G. Arnold, and S. Villamayor Tomás. 2010. A review of design principles for community-based natural resource management. Ecology and Society 15(4): 38. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art38/
Dear Lisa, There are no guarantees of effective management of the commons is a vast literature on the factors that contribute. The Digital Library of the Commons (https://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/ ) has thousands of entries. A particularly good starting point is
Cox, M., G. Arnold, and S. Villamayor Tomás. 2010. A review of design principles for community-based natural resource management. Ecology and Society 15(4): 38. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art38/