Special Issue on Latin American Commons by the Journal of Latin American Geography

The Journal of Latin American Geography has published a special issue on Latin American Commons. This special issue features the work of several of IASC members interested in how Latin American commons are used and governed.

This issue includes some papers presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, held in Hyderabad, India, as well as others based on more recent work.

Interested readers may find more information on the special issue on Latin American Commons of the Journal of Latin American Geography site.

Workshop in the media

Workshop in the media

 

A blog post about personal finance from Forbes:

5 Nobel Prize-Winning Economic Theories You Should Know About

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Top 10 Most Viewed Papers in DLC in 2012:

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Ostrom, E. 2003. "The Tragedy of the Commons." In The New Pelgrave Dictionary of Economics. S. Durlauf and L. Blume, eds. New York: Pelgrave Macmillan. URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/5887	1426
Siisiäinen, M. 2000. "Two Concepts of Social Capital: Bourdieu vs. Putnam." Presented at the ISTR Fourth International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, 5-8 July 2000. URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/7661	1180
Shackleton, S., B. Campbell, E. Wollenberg and D. Edmunds. 2002. "Devolution and Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Creating Space for Local People to Participate and Benefit?" Overseas Development Institute, London. (Natural Resource Perspectives, no. 76). URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/3646	986
Mani Man Singh, R. 2007. "Community Readiness for Self-Managed School." (Ph.D. Dissertation, Kathmandu University, 2007). URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/7936	667
Appell, G.N. 1993. "Hardin's Myth of the Commons: The Tragedy of Conceptual Confusions." Social Transformation and Adaptation Research Institute, Phillips, ME (Working Paper, no. 8). URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/4532	636
Ostrom, E. 2000. "Neither Market Nor State: Governance of Common-Pool Resources in the Twenty-First Century." Presented at Lecture Series No. 2, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, 2 June 1994. URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/891	412
Heikkila, T. 2001. "Managing Common-pool Resources in a Public Service Industry: The Case of Conjunctive Water Management." (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2001). URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/7927	365
Knight, P.D. 2008. "Where Did We Go Wrong? A Critical Assessment of Management in the Bluff Oyster Fishery." (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2008). URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/6113	279
Berkes, F., George, P. and R.J. Preston. 1991. "Co-Management: The Evolution in Theory and Practice of the Joint Administration of Living Resources." Presented at the Common Property Conference, Second Biennial Conference of IASCP, Winnepeg, Manitoba, 26-29 September 1991. URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/1506	255
Abdel-Ghany, M.M.M. 2012. "Identifying Opinion Leaders Using Social Network Analysis: A Study in an Egyptian Village." Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 4(4):12-19. URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10535/7942	250

Workshop in the media

A blog post from The Guardian applies Elinor Ostrom's theories about self-governance to the new movie The Hobbit. 

See the article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/09/hobbit-teach-self-governance

What the Hobbit can Teach us about Self-governance

Those who believe in a small state and self-regulated markets could claim JRR Tolkien and Elinor Ostrom as two of their own.

Call for Papers

 

The Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), in partnership with the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), invite contributions for:

A Special Issue of Policy Matters

Elinor Ostrom’s Work on Common Property and its Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resource Management

Editorial Team

Jim Robson, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Aroha Te Pareake Mead,

Alyne Delaney, Lapologang Magole, Gabriela Lichtenstein

The Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) - Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods (TSL) - of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) plans to devote an entire issue of its flagship Policy Matters journal to the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom’s groundbreaking research on common property theory. This edition would provide commentaries building on Dr. Ostrom’s analysis and, where possible, provide case studies demonstrating the practical application of her theoretical contributions. We hope to organize a session or side event at the upcoming IASC conference in Japan (June 2013) to coincide with this special issue.

At this time we are soliciting expressions of interest and abstracts from those keen to make linkages between Dr. Ostrom’s work and their scholarship, policy or practice. We anticipate that essays between 2500-5000 words, as well as more creative print presentations such as poetry, artwork, photo essays etc., would be undertaken by people who can reflect upon how they have utilized Dr. Ostrom’s work in their scholarship or applied work.  This would include voices from academia, communities, government agencies, development agencies and non-governmental organizations (local – international). While we indicate some possible themes below, we are also open to others that are not listed:

·        Profile of the Professional and Scholarly Achievements of Dr. Ostrom

·        Contribution of Dr. Ostrom to Commons Scholarship

·        Contribution of Dr Ostrom’s Theory to the Practice of Conservation and SNRM

·        Natural Resource Management (Fisheries, Forestry, Rangelands, Agriculture)

·        Conservation (Protected Areas, Biodiversity)

·        Indigenous Peoples

·        Knowledge

Abstracts (in English, Spanish or French) of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Jim Robson (umrobsoj@cc.umanitoba.ca) by January 15^th, 2013.