The collection contains background material, audiocassettes, and transcripts of interviews conducted by David E. Russell with Garrett Hardin, in 1983.

Garrett Hardin was a professor of Human Ecology at the University of California Santa Barbara. He was a writer and lecturer concerned with the problems of overpopulation, and was best known for his essay The Tragedy of the Commons (Science, 1968).

3 linear feet (3 document boxes, 18 audiocassettes)

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

The collection is open for research.