Commons Resources

Here are some resources about commons that you might find useful or interesting

Organisations – common land in the UK

• Foundation for Common Land
• Federation of Cumbria Commoners
• Dartmoor Commoners Council
• New Forest

Organisations – commoning as a wider social practice

• Stir to Action
• Shared Assets

Organisations – academic

• International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
• IASC Early Career Network
• Resilience Alliance

Blogs, newsletters, networks

• Commons transition
• Commons network

Academic journals

• International Journal of the Commons

A few books – commons

• Governing the commons: The Evolutions of Institutions for Collective Action (Elinor Ostrom, 1990)
• Fair, Free & Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons (Bollier & Helfriche 2019)
• The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for all (Linebaugh, 2008)

News articles – common land and commoning

• Making way for trees in Cumbria’s Uplands, The Guardian 30/10/2020

News articles – commoning as broader practice, ethics, worldview