The commons dilemma generalizes to modern shared-resource conflicts.

Evidence

The tragedy of the commons was a social and historical phenomenon that was interesting in its own right, informing us of the struggles past communities confronted when trying to solve problems of cooperation and coordination. However, Hardin recognized that the mixed-motive decision structure embodied in this situation was prototypic also of a large number of contemporary problems involving cooperation and coordination among interdependent actors sharing valuable but scarce resources. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1944

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1944