Cultural and natural sites of unique importance and significance are accorded World Heritage status which recognizes at need to protect this heritage and transmit it to future generations, as well as symbolizing a collective ownership and responsibility for that heritage.

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It's a collective system of ownership governed by rules, not exclusive control.

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Unless you start with everything being privately acquired, there is ambiguity over ownership and in that case you require collective decision-making.

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Collective action problems are sometimes thought to arise inevitably from common ownership of resources, but this is not the case.

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And it is no coincidence that one of the reasons the Steelers has been one of the most successful franchises in the history of the sport during the Rooney ownership (father then son) is due to their collective ability to judge the content of the character of its players and coaches without first filtering out candidates based on non-football criteria.

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What is startling about it is the ownership of their process for creating the practices, and their collective intention to put a stop to random acts of senseless productivity.

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