Margaret E. Banyan
Contributor
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Southwest Florida Center for Public and Social Policy, Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Banyan is the lead planner for public participation, land use planning, and community planning. She contributed several articles to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), which served as the basis for her contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (4)
Tragedy of the commons, concept highlighting the conflict between individual and collective rationality. The idea of the tragedy of the commons was made popular by the American ecologist Garrett Hardin, who used the analogy of ranchers grazing their animals on a common field. When the field is not…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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