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Erik Nordman, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action (Washington: Island Press, 2021), 256 pp., $35 (paperback). ISBN: 9781642831559.

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Erik Nordman, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action (Washington: Island Press, 2021), 256 pp., $35 (paperback). ISBN: 9781642831559.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2025

Marianne Johnson*
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University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

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