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

Calls for Papers

Call for Papers: Networks of Action Situations in Social-Ecological Systems Research, abstract deadline Aug 31, 2020

Several IASC Members call for contributions to the upcoming Special Feature in Sustainability Science. It will build on a series of panels organized at a number of conferences including the IASC 2019.

Events

Does our response to coronavirus have to be a tragedy of the commons?

Insa Theesfeld reflects on the cancellation of multiple events and other restrictions due to coronavirus outbreak from the commons perspective.

Jobs

Call for Applications: 13 ESR/PhD positions in Water Governance as part of the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN ‘NEWAVE: Next Water Governance’ – Apply by May 24, 2020

IASC Members invite applications in the field of adaptive water governance, political ecology of water and water justice, community and polycentric water governance.

Publications

Communicating research results: A science comic about the EU Water Framework Directive

Often how we communicate our research and results has an impact on whether it leads to better understanding and perhaps actual change. IASC Member Nadine Schröder shares her experience of creating a science comic.

Events

Join us at the Earth Hour for a Global Commons!

On Saturday March 28, 2020, 8:30 PM Central European Time (GMT+1) the world community will celebrate the Earth Hour. Join us and help place the spotlight on nature – the world is watching.

Publications

30th anniversary of Ostrom’s Governing the Commons, Special Issue on Central Asia, & more in new volume of IJC

The trends in the last 50 years of commons research, Special Issue on Central Asia, and much more in the new volume of the International Journal of the Commons.

Events

7th Commons Summer School, July 5-12, 2020 (in German), apply by March 13

Organized by the IASC’s institutional member Das Commons-Institut and led by its founder, long-term IASC member, Silke Helfrich, the summer school will create space for discussing commoning as an art for crafting the future.

Publications

Article on understanding causes of conflict over common village pastures by Neudert et al.

New article by IASC members in the journal Society & Natural Resources proposes a combined analysis of property rights and conflicts with the examples from two distinct policy-institutional and cultural-political contexts yet with a shared post-socialist transition background.

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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

Professor of Environmental Sociology and Director of the 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.

University of Bern
Institute of Social Anthropology
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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Chair for Environmental Sociology
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