Acknowledgments

Introduction, by David Bollier & Silke Helfrich

Part I: The Commons as a New Paradigm

• My Rocky Road to the Commons, by Jacques Paysan
• The Economy of Wastefulness: The Biology of the Commons, by Andreas Weber
• We Are Not Born as Egoists, by Friederike Habermann
• Resilience Thinking, by Rob Hopkins
• Institutions and Trust in Commons: Dealing with Social Dilemmas, by Martin Beckenkamp
• The Structural Communality of the Commons, by Stefan Meretz
• The Logic of the Commons and the Market: A Shorthand Comparison of Their Core Beliefs, by Silke Helfrich
• First Thoughts for a Phenomenology of the Commons, by Ugo Mattei
• Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, by Silvia Federici
• Rethinking the Social Welfare State in Light of the Commons, by Brigitte Kratzwald
• Common Goods Don’t Simply Exist – They Are Created, by Silke Helfrich
• The Tragedy of the Anticommons, by Michael Heller
• Why Distinguish Common Goods from Public Goods?, by James B. Quilligan
• Subsistence: Perspective for a Society Based on Commons, by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
• Technology and the Commons, by Josh Tenenberg
• The Commoning of Patterns and the Patterns of Commoning, by Franz Nahrada
• The Abundance of the Commons, A Conversation with Brian Davey, Roberto Verzola and Wolfgang Hoeschele

Part II: Capitalism, Enclosure and Resistance

• Enclosures from the Bottom Up, by Peter Linebaugh [abstract]
• The Commons: A Historical Concept of Property Rights, by Hartmut Zückert
• The Global Land Grab: The New Enclosures, by Liz Alden Wily
• Genetically Engineered Promises & Farming Realities, by P.V. Satheesh
• The Coming Financial Enclosure of the Common, by Antonio Tricarico
• Mining as a Threat to the Commons: The Case of South America, by César Padilla
• Water as a Commons: Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us, by Maude Barlow
• Dam Building: Who’s “Backward” – Subsistence Cultures or Modern “Development”?, by Vinod Raina
• Belo Monte, or the Destruction of the Commons, by Gerhard Dilger
• Subtle But Effective: Modern Forms of Enclosure, by Hervé Le Crosnier
• Good Bye Night Sky, by Jonathan Rowe
• Crises, Capitalism and Cooperation: Does Capital Need a Commons Fix?, by Massimo De Angelis
• Hope from the Margins, by Gustavo Esteva
• A New German Raw Materials Strategy: A Modern Enclosure of the Commons?, by Lili Fuhr
• Using “Protected Natural Areas” to Appropriate the Commons, by Ana de Ita
• Intellectual Property Rights and Free Trade Agreements: A Never-Ending Story, by Beatriz Busaniche
• Global Enclosures in the Service of Empire, by David Bollier

Part III: Commoning – A Social Innovation for Our Times

• School of Commoning, by George Pór
• Practicing Commons in Community Gardens: Urban Gardening as a Corrective for Homo Economicus, by Christa Müller
• Mundraub.org: Sharing Our Common Fruit, by Katharina Frosch
• Living in “The Garden of Life,” by Margrit Kennedy and Declan Kennedy
• Reclaiming the Credit Commons: Towards a Butterfly Society, by Thomas H. Greco, Jr.
• Shared Space: A Space Shared is a Space Doubled, by Sabine Lutz
• Transition Towns: Initiatives of Transformation, by Gerd Wessling
• Learning from Minamata: Creating High-Level Well-Being in Local Communities in Japan, by Takayoshi Kusago
• Share or Die – A Challenge for Our Times, by Neal Gorenflo
• The Faxinal: A Brazilian Experience of the Commons and Its Relationship with the State, by Mayra Lafoz Bertussi
• Capable Leadership, Institutional Skills and Resource Abundance Behind Flourishing Coastal Marine Commons in Chile, by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández & Eva Friman
• Community Based Forest and Livelihood Management in Nepal, by Shrikrishna Upadhyay
• Salt and Trade at the Pink Lake: Community Subsistence in Senegal, by Papa Sow & Elina Marmer
• El Buen Vivir and the Commons, A Conversation between Gustavo Soto Santiesteban and Silke Helfrich

Part IV: Knowledge Commons for Social Change

• The Code is the Seed of the Software, An Interview with Adriana Sánchez
• The Boom of Commons-Based Peer Production, by Christian Siefkes
• Copyright and Fairy Tales, by Carolina Botero and Julio César Gaitán
• Creative Commons: Governing the Intellectual Commons from Below, by Mike Linksvayer
• Freedom for Users, Not for Software, by Benjamin Mako Hill
• Public Administration Needs Free Software, by Federico Heinz
• From Blue Collar to Open Commons Region: How Linz, Austria, Has Benefited from Committing to the Commons, by Thomas Gegenhuber, Naumi Haque and Stefan Pawel
• Emancipating Innovation Enclosures: The Global Innovation Commons, by David E. Martin
• Move Commons: Labeling, Opening and Connecting Social Initiatives, by Javier de la Cueva, Bastien Guerry, Samer Hassan, Vicente J. Ruiz Jurado
• Peer-to-Peer Economy and New Civilization Centered Around the Sustenance of the Commons, by Michel Bauwens and Franco Iacomella
• Knowledge is the Water of the Mind: How to Structure Rights in “Immaterial Commons,” by Rainer Kuhlen

Part V: Envisioning a Commons-Based Policy and Production Framework

• Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and the Commons, by David Bollier and Burns H. Weston
• The Common Heritage of Mankind: A Bold Doctrine Kept Within Strict Boundaries, by Prue Taylor
• Ideas for Change: Making Meaning Out of Economic and Institutional Diversity, by Ryan T. Conway
• Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment, by Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg
• The Triune Peer Governance of the Digital Commons, by Michel Bauwens
• Multilevel Governance and Cross-Scale Coordination for Natural Resource Management: Lessons from Current Research, by Helen Markelova and Esther Mwangi
• The Atmosphere as a Global Commons, by Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland and Bernhard Lorentz
• Transforming Global Resources into Commons, by Gerhard Scherhorn
• Electricity Commons – Toward a New Industrial Society, by Julio Lambing
• The Failure of Land Privatization: On the Need for New Development Policies, by Dirk Löhr
• The Yasuní-ITT Initiative, or The Complex Construction of Utopia, by Alberto Acosta
• Equitable Licensing – Ensuring Access to Innovation, by Christina Godt, Christian Wagner-Ahlfs and Peter Tinnemann
• P2P-Urbanism: Backed by Evidence, by Nikos A. Salingaros and Federico Mena-Quintero

Epilogue

Index