The commons dilemma generalizes to scarce shared resources beyond pasture

Evidence

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