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In December 1968, __________ ecologist and biologist Garrett Hardin had an essay published in the journal Science called ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’. His proposition was simple and unsparing: humans, when __________ to their own devices, compete with one another for resources until the resources run out. ‘Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own __________ interest,’ he wrote. ‘Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.’ Hardin’s argument made intuitive sense, and provided a temptingly simple explanation ___________ catastrophes of all kinds – traffic jams, dirty public toilets, species extinction. His essay, widely read and accepted, would become one of the most-cited scientific papers of all time.

Even before Hardin’s ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ was published, however, the young political scientist Elinor Ostrom had ___________ him wrong. While Hardin speculated that the tragedy of the commons could be avoided only ____________ total privatisation or total government control, Ostrom had witnessed groundwater users near her native Los Angeles hammer out a system for sharing their coveted resource. Over the next several decades, as a professor at Indiana University Bloomington, she studied collaborative management systems developed by cattle herders in Switzerland, forest dwellers in Japan, and irrigators in _________ Philippines. These communities had found ways of _________ preserving a shared resource – pasture, trees, water – and providing their members with a living. Some had been deftly avoiding the tragedy of the commons for centuries; Ostrom was simply one of the first scientists ________ pay close attention to their traditions, and analyse how and why they worked.

The features of successful systems, Ostrom and her colleagues found, include clear boundaries (the ‘community’ doing the managing must be well-defined); reliable monitoring of the shared resource; a reasonable balance _________ costs and benefits for participants; a predictable process for the fast and fair resolution of conflicts; _________ escalating series of punishments for cheaters; and good relationships between the community and other layers of authority, from household heads _________ international institutions.
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WORD FORMATION TASK, please fill the gaps with the appropriate forms of the given words. Parents are often the strongest advocates for their children’s education. Many ___________ (EDUCATE) will approach parents about the possibility of assessing their child for ____________ (GIFT). Other times parents may feel that their child may be intellectually or academically exceptional and believe that access to gifted education services would be appropriate. In both instances, parent should consider some basic _____________ (SUGGEST) about testing. First, parents should be patient with the assessment process. Often, the school will incorporate parental input when deliberating a child’s __________ (ADMIT) into gifted ___________ (PROGRAME). Even if this does not occur, realize the amount of data that school personnel are trying to sift through in an effort to be fair about such decisions. This amount of information and the variety of people involved make it necessary to be patient with the process. It will be difficult to not want to push the process along, ____________ (SPECIAL) since your child’s education is at stake. However, strong ____________ (ADVOCATE) can feel like strong demands from the school’s point of view, creating an atmosphere in which each side tends to see the other as an obstacle to be avoided, and the true ____________ (OJBECT), the best interest of the student, is compromised. Second, parents may decide to have their child evaluated by a professional outside of the school system. This may be because they feel that the school is being ___________ (RESPONSE) to their child’s needs, or that the process would take too long if done through the school system. In such cases, parents should consider the ___________ (QUALIFY) of the testing psychologist. Although various learning centers and educational assessment companies can be found in most metropolitan areas, these may only provide basic test results at high cost. Parents are left on their own to explain to the meaning of the results to school administrators. Instead, look for licensed psychologists that _____________ (SPECIAL) in working with children and understand the issues and procedures involved in identifying gifted students. Other good resources for testing services are local universities that may provide such services at ______________ (SAGNIFY) reduced cost.
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