About IASC Europe & CIS
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
Our Commons Future IASC 2021 – A series of thematic IASC conferences on water, urban, knowledge, polycentricity, anthropocene, forests and land (Update)
The organizers of the next XVIII Biennial IASC 2021 Conference “Our Commons Future” are working hard to facilitate a series of thematic conferences throughout the next year.
Food as a common good – IASC Member Marianne Penker in EU Parliament’s public hearing
IASC member Marianne Penker was recently invited to the European Parliament and argued that a new framing of food opens options for deep policy reforms.
Call for Applications: Researcher position on institutional and behavioural economics at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research – apply by April 25, 2021
The Leipniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) is looking for candidates who are interested in institutional and behavioural economics as well as knowledge exchange.
Join IASC 2021 Commoning the Anthropocene Virtual Conference on April 21-23!
The role of common property systems to land use and other shared resources in the Anthropocene and more at this conference.
Join IASC 2021 Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons Virtual Conference on Mar 9-11!
Governing aquaculture and fisheries commons, challenges of the COVID19 pandemic, innovative methodologies, networking events and more at this conference.
New book on Commons and Resilience Grabbing by Haller et al. 2021
New book on commons has been published by IASC member Tobias Haller and colleagues: “Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing?”.
IASC President Insa Theesfeld reflects on her new role and looks ahead in challenging times
On January 15, 2021 Insa Theesfeld took over presidency of the IASC and will serve in this capacity in the next two years.
IASC Members Tobias Haller and Tine De Moor co-edit a new volume “The Commons in a Glocal World” (Update)
The volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the
commons is discussed in regard to historical and
contemporary dimensions, referencing the works of Elinor
Ostrom. It explores how Europe directly and indirectly
affected and affects the commons globally.
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Regional Coordination Team
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.
Ilkhom Soliev
Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) and Director, Social Learning and Environmental Governance Lab, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Ilkhom Soliev is an institutional economist and interdisciplinary social-environmental researcher with focus on governance of common pool resources. He studies behavioral and institutional change for equitable and sustainable environmental governance. He examines societal transformations and path dependence across natural resource domains of water, land, forests, biodiversity, and climate, as well as in various cultural and political contexts. Currently he is leading the Horizon Europe Project PLANET4B. His most recent interests include experiential learning, survey experiments, power of discourse and social movements in the context of environmental governance, as well as transdisciplinary approaches to values and rights of nature.