Sharing the globe

摘要: Abstract Issues posed by global environmental change can be viewed as the problem of commons on a larger geographic scale. A framework for analysing how scale affects governments' ability to manage problems is suggested here. It based interactions between four dimensions: production-consumption relationships; distribution benefits and costs various activities; level administrative control; spatial individuals' attachment place. Global case where from polluting activities are spatially concentrated relative costs. The difficulty in addressing such stems discrepancy adverse impacts control. possibility adapting institutional structures match examined, light increasing relationships post-industrial world growing demand local control across globe. ideological place identified an important variable determining respond large-scale problems.