Property Rights for CPR's

Access

The right to enter a defined physical area and enjoy nonsubtractive benefits (for example, hike, canoe, enjoy nature);

Extraction

The right to obtain resource units or products of a resource system (for example, catch fish, divert water);

Management

The right to regulate internal use patterns and transform the resource by making improvements;

Exclusion

The right to determine who will have access rights and withdrawal rights, and how those rights may be transferred; and

Alienation

The right to sell or lease management and exclusion rights.

Edella Schlager & Elinor Ostrom, "Property-Rights Regimes and Natural Resources: A Conceptual Analysis", Land Economics, 68:249-250, 1992. Referenced in Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom "Ideas, artifacts, and facilities: information as a common-pool resource." Law and Contemporary Problems, 66:111, 2003.