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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize winner Elinor Ostrom won the price for research on the tragedy on the commons. She came up with a few principles: http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons
It's empiric data based research as opposed to a nice theoretic solution but depending on your use-case that might be even better ;)