Shared Resources

Roles: resource, contributor, consumer, governance, boundary, rule

Any pool of finite resources accessed by multiple parties under some governance regime. Generalizes the commons pattern beyond land to bandwidth, attention, budgets, and open-source labor. The key structural tension is between open access and sustainable use, mediated by governance rules that may be formal or emergent.

Applied To This Frame (3)

• embodied-experience → Bus Factor
• animal-husbandry → The Commons
• game-theory → Tragedy of the Commons