Commons as a Social-Ecological System: The case study of Radi Forest in Icaria

The common-property status or commons is one of the four property statuses of nature. The relevant literature in the social
sciences reveals that commons as management practice and organizational scheme of people and nature relies on the principles
of cooperation and reciprocity, while it condemns any fonn of competition and intense individualism. The net of the relationships
within the community ofa common pool resource specifies the evolution of the natural resource and identifies interesting
qualities of the social life. In the present case study the Ran ti forest on the island of Ikaria operates as a «commons»
and creates an interesting socially produced landscape.