An alternative to conventional governance

The first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economy, Elinor Ostrom, has with her science opened up an alternative to conventional governance. State or privatized governance over whatever good or natural resource have been the conventional up to now while common governance usually has been regarded as a form of political statement and much doubtful. Elinor studies show that a critical limit in order to ensure a good function of common governance seems to be 15 000 inhabitants. After that limit is trespassed, the agreements among the individuals sharing the resource seem to be easily disrupted and inorder emerges. Also, Elinor shows with her studies 5000 examples of successfull common governance of natural resources ranging from fisheries, forests and grazing lands. This has enormous potential into developing into many more implemented examples. The prize winner could not have been presented to the world with a better timing. Understanding that political systems are not capable in dealing with humanities problems in such a paste that is needed, we rather will have to look in taking things in our own hands and forming communities again so as to live locally, thinking globally - acting glocally!