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This article discusses New Zealand honey and how there is an increasingly global demand for manuka honey. This results in "a variety of honey products from different parts of the world claiming to be manuka honey". Now protectionist measurements are asked for in order to protect the local honey.

This Article talks about the tragedy of the commons in Yukon. The territory has finite sources and ecologist Garret Hardin these resources have to be protected. But in Yukon and other places in the world today, these finite sources are not protected and corporations and companies can do what every they desire, This article outlines the problems of not protecting our natural resources, we are working against the good of the whole of society.

The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY offers local news coverage online. Serving Fayette, Bourbon, Franklin, Clark, Madison, Jessamine, Woodford and Scott counties in Kentucky, Kentucky.com offers local breaking, weather and crime news.

this article illustrates the friction caused by Chinese government's new policy of requiring foreign computer companies to make 'backdoors' in their hardwares and softwares. The foreign companies are protesting that such measure is protectionism.

Dairy farmers from around Ottawa took their cows and tractors to Parliament Hill this week, to protest the changes they expect in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

This article is about Japan's policy to impose a quota on US rice. US-produced rice is known for its exceedingly cheap price, and Japan is imposing quota to protect its domestic producers from the competition.

This article talk about how human impact on our oceans could lead to several extinction in the sea. Unsustainable fishing being a big contributor. This is a prime of example of Garrett Hardin idea of the Tragedy of the common as humans human as using up these shared resources for a private benefit, but they are not necessarily thinking about the future of these common resources. And supporting Garrett Hardin thoughts, we must find a way to determine which institutions are best to protect use resources.

This article identifies the problem associated with over-fishing caused by the tragedy of the commons.

This article not only gives brief information about the Tragedy of Commons but also considers the daily applications of it. It talks about the current market failure in today's oceans. It talks about the loopholes of the Law of the Sea, whereas it considers the possible solutions to that problem.

IN 1968 an American ecologist, Garrett Hardin, published an article entitled "The Tragedy of the Commons". He argued that when a resource is held jointly, it is in individuals' self-interest to deplete it, so people will tend to undermine their collective long-term interest by over-exploiting rather than protecting that asset.