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
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.
Summary: Bern Workshop on Historical Forms of Sustainability
Organizers of the Bern Workshop on Historical Forms of Sustainability on November 22-23, 2019 summarize their key outcomes.
IASC Europe coordinator sums up successful year and looks ahead to 2020!
Insa Theesfeld shares her thoughts on how successful 2019 was for IASC Europe and calls for inputs in 2020.
Summary: Montpellier Workshop on Operationalization of Land-Based Commons Approach in Development Projects
Organizers of the Montpellier Workshop on Operationalization of the Land-Based Commons Approach on November 19, 2019 summarize their key outcomes.
Climate Change as Social Dilemma: Radio Interview with Theesfeld (in German) and Survey during Climate Week
Druing the week of climate action IASC President-Elect reflects on climate change from the commons perspective at an interview with Radio Corax.
Article on potential of social learning in community gardens and impact of community heterogeneity by Rogge et al.
New article by Nicole Rogge and colleagues explores how community gardens, as observed in Europe, can foster social learning and how heterogeneity can affect that.
Call for Chapter Proposals: Book on Leadership of the Commons, extended deadline December 15, 2019
IASC member Randal J. Thompson and The International Leadership Association are inviting chapter proposals for a volume titled: Leadership of the Commons: How Collaboration is Transforming the Governance of Resources and Services Around the World.
While awaiting the Montpellier Workshop: A set of publications on land-based commons approach
IASC member François Bousquet together with other researchers and expert members from the French Agency for Development report on their findings from empirical case studies, literature review, and interviews with experts.
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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.