About IASC Europe
The IASC was founded on May 27, 1989 and its legal address has been at Indiana University since then. Various global, regional and topical conferences have been organized in Europe over the years. Since 2018 we started to decentralize our coordination, particularly to facilitate understanding and practice of commons on more regional and local levels. We would like to support communication among the members as well as potential members of the association within the region/country/thematic areas, and reach out to broader external audiences.
Latest News
Join IASC 2021 Water Commons Virtual Conference on May 19-21!
Join IASC 2021 Polycentricity Virtual Conference on May 17-19!
Join IASC 2021 Urban Commons Virtual Conference on May 6-8!
Our Commons Future IASC 2021 – A series of thematic IASC conferences on water, urban, knowledge, polycentricity, anthropocene, forests and land (Update)
Food as a common good – IASC Member Marianne Penker in EU Parliament’s public hearing
Call for Applications: Researcher position on institutional and behavioural economics at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – apply by April 25, 2021
Join IASC 2021 Commoning the Anthropocene Virtual Conference on April 21-23!
A new book “Balancing the Commons in Switzerland” by IASC member Tobias Haller
Join IASC 2021 Water Commons Virtual Conference on May 19-21!
Join IASC 2021 Polycentricity Virtual Conference on May 17-19!
Join IASC 2021 Urban Commons Virtual Conference on May 6-8!
Our Commons Future IASC 2021 – A series of thematic IASC conferences on water, urban, knowledge, polycentricity, anthropocene, forests and land (Update)
Food as a common good – IASC Member Marianne Penker in EU Parliament’s public hearing
Call for Applications: Researcher position on institutional and behavioural economics at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – apply by April 25, 2021
Join IASC 2021 Commoning the Anthropocene Virtual Conference on April 21-23!
A new book “Balancing the Commons in Switzerland” by IASC member Tobias Haller
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Regional IASC coordinator for Europe
Insa Theesfeld
Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy & Resource Governance, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
President of IASC
Insa Theesfeld is an agricultural economist, specialized in institutional economics and resource economics and works as Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research and teaching fields compose the desirable fit between policies foreseen to be implemented and the formal and informal institutional arrangements in place. She analyses how communities govern their use of natural resources, taking power and leadership aspects at different scales into account. A significant strand of her work has explored water resource management issues and the linkages to other natural resources, emerging from the property rights structures in place. Based on her geographical orientation she has developed and is leading the research field on pseudo-commons in post-socialist countries.
Communications Officer for IASC Europe
Ilkhom Soliev
Senior Researcher / Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy & Resource Governance, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist with research focus on governance of common pool resources. His work in research, education, and development has focused on the study of sustainable and equitable natural resource governance and effective institutions. He has studied and developed empirical and theoretical foundations of benefit sharing as a governance approach to managing shared water resources in Central Asia, documenting and analyzing over a century-long data. As a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, he focuses on examining transformative power of benefit sharing using new methods across multiple natural resource domains of water, land, biodiversity and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts spanning from Central Asia and the wider post-Soviet region to developed countries such as Germany and the United States.