The appropriators in Alanya, Törbel, the Japanese mountain villages, Valencia, Ilocos Norte, the Cal…

Elinor Ostrom — Governing The Commons (p. 185)

The appropriators in Alanya, Törbel, the Japanese mountain villages, Valencia, Ilocos Norte, the California ground-water basins, and even Mawelle all transformed the structures they faced, moving from a structure in which a set of unorganized individuals made independent decisions about using a CPR that yielded scarce resource units to a structure in which a set of organized individuals made decisions in a sequential, contingent, or frequency-dependent manner.

— Elinor Ostrom, Governing The Commons, p. 185