The article discusses how enforcing rules in collective actions can help create sustainable institutions for managing shared resources. By using a model of institutional emergence in socio-ecological systems, the researchers show that enforcing rules can speed up the process of finding effective institutions. They created a simulation where people work together to design rules to avoid overusing resources, and found that enforcing these rules improves the efficiency of the process. This means that monitoring and sanctioning can help communities escape the "tragedy of the commons" and find better ways to manage their resources.