Questions and Assignments
Propose the following questions to your students and help them to find some answers.
Use the tools and the concepts learned so far to discuss and determine answers to the following questions:
- Describe the concept of tragedy of the commons.
- Discuss climate change as a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. Identify the “commons” and the “tragedy”.
- Explain why “atmospheric sinks for greenhouse gases” can be considered as a “commons”.
- Discuss different types of governance solutions for climate change as a tragedy of the commons. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each type of solution.