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    • Is Sustainability Rocket Science?
    • Working Together: Fishers, Civil Society, and Academia Build Research and Policy Outcomes on Collective Action
    • Nurturing The Urban Commons
  • Video Presentations
    • When The Past Rears Its Head: Technocratic Visions of Urban Development and The Coopting of Urban Commons
    • From “Kere” to Tank: Changing perceptions of water as an urban commons
    • Role of Self-help Groups as Agents for Local Participation and Service Provision in Peri-urban Villages: The Case of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India
    • Urban Commons and Placemaking: Exploring Diverse Socio-ecological Linkages With Lake Commons in Bangalore
    • Cognitive Factors Affecting Multi-scale Collaboration Around Common-pool Resources
    • Taming Surface and Groundwater Use for Irrigation: A Commons’ Problem
    • Social tipping elements for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
    • “Tragedy of the Commons” as Conventional Wisdom in Sustainability Education
    • From Tragedy to Survival
    • Journey from Tragedy to Survival: Co-Ordination Problems in Polycentric Governance
    • Cross-border Governance: Polycentricity in Practice?
    • Comparative Institutional Analysis of Digital Communities: A Review
    • Making corporations a common good to sustain the global common goods
  • Commons Video Contest
  • World Commons Week Reports
    • Commons @ASU during World Commons Week
    • Commons Study Booming in China: Chinese Scholars Celebrating the First World Commons Week
    • Seminar “The Lens of the Commons” at the Procomum Institute in Brazil
    • The Brazil’s Commons Seminar: The Faxinal Tradition
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  • Home
  • Welcome from the Conference Chair
  • Keynote Addresses
    • Is Sustainability Rocket Science?
    • Working Together: Fishers, Civil Society, and Academia Build Research and Policy Outcomes on Collective Action
    • Nurturing The Urban Commons
  • Video Presentations
    • When The Past Rears Its Head: Technocratic Visions of Urban Development and The Coopting of Urban Commons
    • From “Kere” to Tank: Changing perceptions of water as an urban commons
    • Role of Self-help Groups as Agents for Local Participation and Service Provision in Peri-urban Villages: The Case of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India
    • Urban Commons and Placemaking: Exploring Diverse Socio-ecological Linkages With Lake Commons in Bangalore
    • Cognitive Factors Affecting Multi-scale Collaboration Around Common-pool Resources
    • Taming Surface and Groundwater Use for Irrigation: A Commons’ Problem
    • Social tipping elements for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
    • “Tragedy of the Commons” as Conventional Wisdom in Sustainability Education
    • From Tragedy to Survival
    • Journey from Tragedy to Survival: Co-Ordination Problems in Polycentric Governance
    • Cross-border Governance: Polycentricity in Practice?
    • Comparative Institutional Analysis of Digital Communities: A Review
    • Making corporations a common good to sustain the global common goods
  • Commons Video Contest
  • World Commons Week Reports
    • Commons @ASU during World Commons Week
    • Commons Study Booming in China: Chinese Scholars Celebrating the First World Commons Week
    • Seminar “The Lens of the Commons” at the Procomum Institute in Brazil
    • The Brazil’s Commons Seminar: The Faxinal Tradition
  • Conversation Corner
    • Participate
We held this conference from November 12-30, 2018. Login as an IASC member to access videos. Available to the general public is the welcome video and the commons video contest.
If you want to learn more about this conference follow this link

Welcome from the Conference Chair

Marco A. Janssen

President Elect of the international Association for the Study of the Commons
Director of the Center for Behavior, Institutions & the Environment
Professor School of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

Keynote Addresses

Is Sustainability Rocket Science?

by J. Marty Anderies
School of Sustainability and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

5 Comments

Working Together: Fishers, Civil Society, and Academia Build Research and Policy Outcomes on Collective Action

by Xavier Basurto
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

2 Comments

Nurturing The Urban Commons

by Harini Nagendra
School of Development, Azim Premji University

4 Comments

Video Presentations

When The Past Rears Its Head: Technocratic Visions of Urban Development and The Coopting of Urban Commons

by Hita Unnikrishnan1,2, Harini Nagendra2, Vanesa Castan Broto1
1 Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield
2 Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

2 Comments

From “Kere” to Tank: Changing perceptions of water as an urban commons

by Anushri Narayan Visweswaran1, Hita Unnikrishnan1,2, and Harini Nagendra1
1 Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
2 Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 Comments

Role of Self-help Groups as Agents for Local Participation and Service Provision in Peri-urban Villages: The Case of Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

by Richa Kandpal and Izuru Saizen
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

2 Comments

Urban Commons and Placemaking: Exploring Diverse Socio-ecological Linkages With Lake Commons in Bangalore

by Amrita Sen and Harini Nagendra
Centre for Urban Ecological Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

1 Comment

Cognitive Factors Affecting Multi-scale Collaboration Around Common-pool Resources

by Luisa Galindo
University of Massachusetts Amherst

1 Comment

Taming Surface and Groundwater Use for Irrigation: A Commons’ Problem

by Mamona Sadaf
International institute of Islamic Economics, Pakistan

1 Comment

Social tipping elements for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

by Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.

2 Comments

“Tragedy of the Commons” as Conventional Wisdom in Sustainability Education

by Rimjhim Aggarwal, Marco Janssen (presenter), Michael Schoon, and Skaidra Smith Hieisters
School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

3 Comments

From Tragedy to Survival

by Veronika Gezik
CETIP Network

3 Comments

Journey from Tragedy to Survival: Co-Ordination Problems in Polycentric Governance

by Tatiana Kluvankova1,2, Susan Baker3, and Veronika Gezik2
1 SPECTRA
2 CETIP Network
3 Cardiff University

4 Comments

Cross-border Governance: Polycentricity in Practice?

by Martin Spacek1,2, and Milan Husar1
1 Institute of Management, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
2 Faculty of Management, Comenius University, Bratislava

2 Comments

Comparative Institutional Analysis of Digital Communities: A Review

by Seth Frey
Communication Dept, University of California, Davis

2 Comments

Making corporations a common good to sustain the global common goods

by Shann Turnbull
International institute for Self-governance, Sydney, Australia

1 Comment

Commons Video Contest

The Commons Video Contest is for 3-minute videos that aim to communicate commons research to a general public. For a detailed description of the contest please follow this link. Below you can find the 20 entrees we received for the contest. In order to define the winning videos we asked IASC members to express their preferences for their 3 favorite videos. The resulting ranking helped the judging panel to select the winning videos.
Polling closed at 6:00 PM MST (UTC -7) on November 25, 2018.

The Winner

The Commons Explained

by Coley Curry, graduate student at Arizona State University, working towards her MFA in dance. Winner of the Commons Video Contest organized by the International Association for the Study of the Commons in November 2018.

Runner Ups

Governing the Commons
by Vanya Bisht, PhD student in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University. Runner up in the Commons Video Contest organized by the International Association for the Study of the Commons in November 2018.
A tragic story on the commons
by Shivanyaa Rawat, Kunja Shrestha, and Sushmita Patel from the Foundation of Ecological Security, India. Runner up in the Commons Video Contest organized by the International Association for the Study of the Commons Video Contest in November 2018.

All Contest Videos

Video 1

by Marcel Bandur

Video 2

by Coley Curry

Video 3

by Vanya Bisht

Video 4

by Cobi Frongillo, Maxine Gunther-Segal, and Ainsley Brosnan-Smith

Video 5
by Andrin Zaugg and Max Krauer
Video 6
by Katie Nelson and Stefan Partelow
Video 7
by Bruno Fiengo
Video 8

by Dominik Fischer and Mark Prenrecaj , and Ainsley Brosnan-Smith

Video 9
by Lucas Thoeni and Yanick Imfeld
Video 10
by Khaled Md Shariful Islam
Video 11
by Estela Paradelot
Video 12

by Liza Hoos and Xavier Basurto

Video 13

by Elias Wechsler, Andreas Lüem, and Yakub Karagülle

Video 14

by Kaja Schmid, Rowena Kuonen, and Leandra Ferrario

Video 15
by Vanya Bisht
Video 16

by Ryan Powell and Pierre Eliott Buet

World Commons Week Reports

Commons @ASU during World Commons Week

by Skaidra Smith-Heisters, Marco Janssen, and Dane Whittaker
Arizona State University, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, School of Sustainability, and Graduates in Integrative Society & Environmental Research

2 Comments

The Brazil’s Commons Seminar: The Faxinal Tradition

by Carlos Gonzaga
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (State University of Midwestern) – UNICENTRO – Campus Irati, State of Parana, Brazil

1 Comment

Seminar “The Lens of the Commons” at the Procomum Institute in Brazil

by Georgia Nicolau
Instituto Procomun, SESC Research and Training Center, São Paulo, Brazil

1 Comment

Commons Study Booming in China: Chinese Scholars Celebrating the First World Commons Week

by Yahua Wang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2 Comments

Conversation Corner

In this discussion forum you can address issues with conference attendees unrelated to a specific video presentation. Examples of discussion topics: What are questions you have to other participants on research or methods? What common themes do you observe among the presentations? What do you think about the videos of the video contest? What is your impression about the first IASC Virtual Conference?

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Do you have questions about this conference? Please contact us at iasc@asu.edu

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