“…In a highly influential article, Hardin (1968) posed the tragedy of the commons in case of population pressure by arguing that while every herdsman seeks to let as many livestock as possible graze on the commons, this individual rationality inevitably leads to overgrazing. Ever since, there is an increasing interest in historic cases of common land regulation and sanctioning (Slicher van Bath, 1978: 244-8;Ostrom, 1990;De Moor, Farjam, van Weeren, Bravo, Forsman, Ghorbani, Dehkordi: 2021;Forsman, De Moor, van Weeren, Farjam, Dehkordi, Ghorbani, Bravo: 2021). Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her ground-breaking work on common property.…”