ABSTRACT
The chapter provides analytical summary of each chapter contribution. It focuses on the key findings and learnings crucial to the understanding of commonisation and decommonisation as an analytical framework useful to examine and respond to changes in the commons. In doing so, it explores the empirical basis of how resources are commonised and decommonised through the influence of multi-level internal and external drivers, and their implications for commons governance across disparate geographical and temporal contexts. The five question areas set out in chapter one are used as a measure: (1) factors shaping commonisation and decommonisation; (2) impacts and trends resulting from these processes; (3) responses to decommonisation by multiple actors and efforts to promote commonisation; (4) possible lessons for practice, policy and theory of commons; and (5) usefulness of the lessons to sustainably maintain the commons. The chapter provides the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and also offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future.
