This collaborative approach to analysis can be used as a dispute resolution method. We will discuss this topic in the next session. Prior to 1989, the oil industry maintained an uncooperative relationship with the other network members. After the 1989 disaster, a voluntary partnership in support of learning efforts developed within the network. This is a learning arrangement in the form of a new custom of cooperation, which supports the operation of formal learning arrangements.
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Continue to explore links between this line of research and more general theories of the policy process. For example, a custom of secrecy can prevent reporting of errors in a hazardous system, and therefore prevent learning from those errors. The purpose of this exercise is to develop a basic commons management system, using the eight IAD design principles introduced in the last lecture. Imagine that each member of your group is a herder owning 10 cows and a barn. You share a common pasture with each other.