Introduction : on commons in a "glocal" world : linking local and global systems, power processes and local reactions in the management of common pool resources / Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Christian Rohr, Tine de Moor and Heinzpeter Znoj -- Shared ownership as key issue of swiss history :...

In this article we offer a broad explanatory framework for the divergence in the development of institutions for collective action, in particular commons, in Eastern and Western Europe. The latter area was particularly early with the development of collective arrangements of natural resource...