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Argument: Nation states that "own" natural resources are more accountable to protecting those resources
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- "Problems of the Global Commons". The Australian APEC study center. Richard Snape and Don Gunasekera. 1997 - "When property rights to natural resources are non-existent or unenforced no individual bears the full cost of his or her action, and there is no defined mechanism for regulating the use of the resources. The result can be overexploitation— overfishing, overgrazing, excessive extraction of groundwater, and overuse of the commons are examples."



