Trained as a biologist (University of Chicago undergraduate degree; Ph.D. from Stanford in 1942 in microbial ecology) Garrett Hardin spent most of his career at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where his title was Professor of Human...

Garrett James Hardin (1915–2003), born in Dallas, Texas, on April 21, was sometimes called the "father of human ecology" for his efforts to popularize a biological understanding of human beings that also draws out ethical...

Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was a leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas, who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which...

21 APRIL 1915 * 14 SEPTEMBER 2003 GARRETT HARDIN (born in 1915 in Dallas, Texas) won a University of Chicago Academic Scholarship and was graduated in zoology in 1936. At Chicago, he studied under W. C. Allee. Hardin obtained the Ph.D. in microbial...

Ecologist Garrett Hardin's tragedy of the commons thesis states that increasing human population would lead to the exploitation and decline of common resources. The various issues relating to the current management of common resources are discussed. How do we manage resources that seem...