Videos now available from the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons!!!
We have earlier written about the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons held in Oldenburg, Germany on June 6-8, 2018. We also promised that once available we would share some of the speeches that the organizers managed to record on a video. This was our first such experiment, and as you will see, recording […]
Conceptualizing the New Commons – The Examples of Knowledge Commons & Seed and Variety Commons: IASC Workshop connects the open access to knowledge with agricultural questions for the future
From June 6th to 8th 2018, thirty scholars and activists from more than ten countries met in Oldenburg, Northern Germany, to discuss the sustainable and viable management of New Commons. In four different sessions, the participants debated the challenges related to creation and management of the so-called New Commons. These Commons arise from social, political […]
IASC Workshop Conceptualizing the New Commons is Under Way
An exciting lineup of keynote speakers and paper presenters has been secured by the organizers of the IASC Workshop on Conceptualizing the New Commons, Oldenburg, Germany, 6-8 June 2018. Jack Kloppenburg, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison kicks-off the workshop with the keynote on Global […]
UN Environment Programme publishes Frontiers Report 2017
[do_widget id=text-12] The United Nations Environment Programme launched its report Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern at the UN Environment Programme meeting in Nairobi on December 5, 2017. The report reports on six specific topics that are currently emerging: environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance; nanomaterials; Marine Protected Areas and sustainable development; sand and dust […]