s:1321:"%T Mobile flows, storage, and self-organized institutions for governing common-pool resources: comment 
%A Swallow, B.M. 
%X In their recent article "Mobile Flows Storage and Self Organized Institutions for Governing Common-Pool Resources"
 Schlager Blomquist and Tang (1994; here- after referred to as SBT) argue that mobility and storage of flows are important charac- teristics of common-pool resources. They propose a typology of common-pool re- sources based on those characteristics. They apply their arguments and typology to fish-
 eries irrigation systems and groundwater basins and imply that the arguments are generally valid. I considered the validity of
 their arguments in general and with specific reference to common property regimes for African rangelands. I noted several limita- tions in conceptualization that are likely to result in errors in application. First the language and concepts that SBT
 use-for example common-pool resources -stresses the physical characteristics of the resources and their flows. In fact they are concerned with factors that motivate people to be members of common property regimes (unfortunately also represented by the ab- breviation CPR) the types of problems that confront members of common property regimes and the governance structures that the members create. 
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