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
New book on Commons and Resilience Grabbing by Haller et al. 2021
IASC President Insa Theesfeld reflects on her new role and looks ahead in challenging times
IASC Members Tobias Haller and Tine De Moor co-edit a new volume “The Commons in a Glocal World” (Update)
Join IASC 2021 Commons in Space Virtual Conference on Feb 24-26!
Call for Chapters: Missing voices from the English language literature on society and natural resources – submit by Feb 28
Call for Applications: PhD position on international agricultural policy and environmental governance at the University of Kassel – apply by December 21, 2020
Call for Applications: Two PhD positions on commons at the Institute for Collective Action, Erasmus University Rotterdam – apply by January 15, 2021
Ostrom Workshop Monday Colloquium Series 2020 – Commons Session and podcast by Insa Theesfeld (Update)
New book on Commons and Resilience Grabbing by Haller et al. 2021
IASC President Insa Theesfeld reflects on her new role and looks ahead in challenging times
IASC Members Tobias Haller and Tine De Moor co-edit a new volume “The Commons in a Glocal World” (Update)
Join IASC 2021 Commons in Space Virtual Conference on Feb 24-26!
Call for Chapters: Missing voices from the English language literature on society and natural resources – submit by Feb 28
Call for Applications: PhD position on international agricultural policy and environmental governance at the University of Kassel – apply by December 21, 2020
Call for Applications: Two PhD positions on commons at the Institute for Collective Action, Erasmus University Rotterdam – apply by January 15, 2021
Ostrom Workshop Monday Colloquium Series 2020 – Commons Session and podcast by Insa Theesfeld (Update)
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Regional IASC coordinator for Europe
Tobias Haller
Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Haller is Extraordinary Professor in Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland and lecturer at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Zurich social anthropology, geography and sociology and made his PhD and his habilitation at the University of Zurich. After being project leader in the NCCCR North-South, he was appointed as Director of the Swiss Network for International Studies in Geneva in 2008. In 2009 he became Associate professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Bern until 2014 when he received an extraordinary professorship at the same institute.
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.