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The Japanese Experience With Scarcity: Management of Traditional Common Lands

Margaret A. McKean · Environmental Review, 6(2), 63–88 · 1982

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Margaret A. McKean
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DOI 10.2307/3984155
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn the iriai villages McKean studied, patrolling guards (in some villages a post rotated among all eligible men) enforced the rules, and written codes set fines graduated by the seriousness of the offence; Ostrom counts monitoring and graduated sanctions among the design principles behind long-enduring commons.