1 belonging to or shared by two or more people, or things: --
3 an area of grass that everyone is allowed to use, usually in or near a village --
4 to share interests, experiences, or other characteristics with someone or something: --
5 found frequently in many places or among many people: --
Accordingly, a competent land management agency is essential for regulating land use (for agriculture, industry, housing and commons) and land transactions.
The house of commons, by law, would have to confirm sanctions.
The generally hostile attitude toward lawyers in the house of commons was a significant obstacle.
The new enclosures substitute for the knowledge commons.
However, in many places and in many periods, communitarian management practices have protected people from the 'tragedy of the commons'.
Similar risk-sharing rules are needed to manage the global commons.
Thus, longer exposure of the villages to the institutional build-up has a positive effect on people's participation in the commons.
Thus, institutional build-up seems to be a very important consideration in motivating people to participate in commons.