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“commons”
An area of grassy land that is open for everyone to use, usually near the center of a town or a city: "The cattle grazed on the common and were watched over by an old man and his grandson."
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tragedy of the commons
The degradation of commonly owned resources due to the lack of incentive for individual users to conserve them.
Commons were originally shared grazing areas, which were generally overgrazed. The full expression was coined by Garrett Hardin in 1968.
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Ocean and Deep Sea Terms
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