Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida (US)
Catherine M. Tucker is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida. Her research unites interests in community-based natural research management, institutional analysis, and global change processes, with a focus on forest and watershed governance in Latin America, with special interest in the emergence and maintenance of effective institutions, as well as their shortcomings. She is a strong promotor of creating awareness of how commons research can contribute to wiser policy and practice, next to exploring new opportunities for commons scholars and practitioners, especially from the Global South. Catherine is co-founder and board member of The Mountain Sentinels Collaborative Network, a network of scholars, non-governmental and governmental organizations, and stakeholders working towards sustainability of mountain environments and communities worldwide.
Professor Environmental Conservation; interim director UMass Amherst School of Public Policy; associate director, National Center for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (US)
Dr. Charles (Charlie) Schweik is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is Associate Director of the Public Interest Technology Initiative at UMass. In the area of Commons and Commoning, he specializes in the Knowledge Commons area and has studied Commons-based Peer Production for over 20 years. Among other writings, he is the author of the open-access book Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software Commons, available at https://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/29/ and has active research studying how nonprofit organizations like the Apache Software Foundation are working to help sustain open source software commons. He leads another Knowledge Commons project called World Librarians where open-access information is provided to offline rural schools in countries like Malawi.
Senior Researcher / Social and Institutional Scientist, International Water Management Institute (Ghana)
Everisto is a senior social and institutional scientist at the International Water Management Institute. His expertise is focused on water institutions, water governance, gender, drought and socially inclusive rural development more generally.
Ph.D. Student, Public Administration and International Affairs Department, Syracuse University
Shuping Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Shuping is interested in natural resource management, environmental policy, adaptive governance, and institutional analysis. Specifically, her research investigates how knowledge, formal and informal institutional arrangements influence the public sector when making adaptive policies using quantitative, qualitative, and computational methods. Shuping completed an undergraduate degree in History and Economics at Xiamen University, and a master’s in Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Senior Research Fellow at the French National Research Institute on Environment, Food and agriculture (INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech)
Armelle Mazé is a senior research fellow working on environmental and innovation policies at the French National Research Institute on Environment, Food and agriculture (INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech). Her twenty years of experience, as a field research practitioner, have focus at the intersection of law and economics and property right economics on various forms of “knowledge commons” in the agricultural sectors, including seed commons, traditional knowledge protection and geographical indications, the restoration of cultivated agrobiodiversity, as well as new forms of innovation commons in the context of open science and citizen science. She has deep concerns about the care about nature and environmental justice, as well as to the challenges created by agroecological transitions and adaptation to climate change.
Raul Pacheco-Vega is a Full Professor in the Methods Lab of the Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO) in México. His research lies at the intersection of space, public policy, environment and society. He is primarily interested in understanding the factors that contribute to (or hinder) cooperation in natural resource governance. A specialist in comparative public policy, he focuses much of his work on North American environmental politics, primarily sanitation and water governance, solid waste management, neoinstitutional theory, transnational environmental social movements and novel methods in public policy. His scholarly work uses a broad range of theoretical approaches, crosses disciplinary boundaries and applies multiple methods, though he is most well-known for his ethnographic and field experimental work. He is a member of the Mexican National Researchers’ System (SNI), and holds the distinction of National Researcher Level 2.
Research Associate, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability. University of Waterloo, Canada
As an environmental social scientist Graham’s research explores a wide range of questions at the intersection of people, the environment and policy. Specifically his research investigates how environmental policies influence behavior and sustainability outcomes in different contexts using both qualitative and quantitative method and seeks to uncover the contexts in which particular policies are likely to increase prospects for sustainability. Graham completed an undergraduate degree in Ecology at the University of Waterloo, a master’s in International Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph and a PhD at Indiana University. His research has been published in a number of different venues including the International Journal of the Commons, Ecology and Society and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
Koffi Alinon is a natural resources’ governance researcher at the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) and based at the Livestock Research Institute for Development (IRED) in N’Djamena, Chad. His area of work is at the intersection of property rights’ securization and peaceful common natural resources utilization of land, water and pastures. He has a dual expertise in conflicts sensitivity and prevention (CSP) tools design and implementation as well as managerial skills in complex projects management processes. He developed a CSP tool for livestock and pastoral projects now in use in the Sahel and in the Horn of Africa. He supports as technical and scientific advisor, the project on adapting access to agropastoral resources in a context of mobility and climate change (ACCEPT) hosted at IRED in Chad.
Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences Department and Director of the Master in Water Resources Management at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Deborah Delgado specializes in environmental and climate policy and justice. She has conducted extensive research on the Amazon Basin, with particular attention to climate adaptation and mitigation policies linked to the forestry and energy industries. Over the past decade, she has been active in long-lasting collaborations with indigenous peoples’ communities and organizations and she works from a gender perspective. Professor Delgado has served on five occasions as a representative of the Peruvian delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating land use and land-use change decisions and climate technology transfer terms. Currently, she is working on research and conservation of microbiota diversity. She holds a Ph.D. in International Development from the Catholic University of Louvain and in Sociology from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences of Paris. She enjoys mentoring students in Peru and Belgium on socio-environmental research and engaging in artistic and justice-oriented collaborations with indigenous organizations and allies at different scales.
Floriane’s research has been focusing on environmental policy implementation, with a particular interest in understanding the institutional and discursive mechanisms that create gaps between policy intentions and outcomes. She conducted research on forest and land policies in Vietnam, watershed policies in India and water and gender development programmes in Nepal. In France, she has been analysing agroecological and agrienvironmental policies and currently coordinates an action research project on farmers’ autonomy and collective action in France. She enjoys working in interdisciplinary teams and exploring spaces of dialogue and tensions between different fields: commons studies, (feminist) political ecology and environmental justice.
Program Manager, Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment, Arizona State University (US)
Caren is the Executive Director of the IASC and is Program Manager at the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment (CBIE) at Arizona State University.
Frank van Laerhoven works as Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development of Utrecht University. His research activities focus on environmental governance, particularly the governance of ecosystems, with a special interest in commons, socio-ecological systems, decentralization reforms, local democracy and participation, and the solving of collective action dilemmas. He currently works on the role of NGOs in stimulating collective action of CPR users, and on the role of gender in adaptation strategies in response to climate change. Frank is also involved in several international projects such as the NWO DeltaMAR project, the NWO Living Polders project. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of the Commons, issued by the IASC since 2007.
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas is currently Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop (Indiana University) and the Berlin Workshop in Institutional Analysis of Socio-Ecological Systems (WINS). His research areas are climate change adaptation, community-based natural resource management, and polycentric governance. His research approaches are institutional economics, political economy and political ecology. Specific topics include adaptation to droughts and other disturbances in the irrigation sector, bottom-up management solutions to the water-energy-food nexus, trans-boundary river management, and the interaction of social movements and commons management. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of the Commons.
Michael Schoon is Associate Professor at the School of Sustainability of Arizona State University. Having studied collaborative, cross-border institutional arrangements covering a range of environmental issues from biodiversity conservation to water sharing to fire management in the Arizona borderlands, the main focus of his research now lies with policy and governance in sustainable systems. His work combines multiple methodological approaches and looks at causal clusters for the formation and governance outcomes of institutional arrangements. Michael Schoon is active in international research communities on resilience, robustness, and complex systems through the Resilience Alliance and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and serves on the board for IUCN’s Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of the Commons.
Emily Castle is the Assistant Director & Librarian of The Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University in Bloomington. She also manages the Digital Library of the Commons. The Ostrom Workshop focuses on the study of governance as it relates to a variety of research areas. We have five established research programs: Commons Governance; Cybersecurity & Internet Governance; Data Management & Information Governance; Environment & Natural Resource Governance; and Political Economy. The Ostrom Workshop seeks to leverage the knowledge produced both within and across research programs in order to enhance educational opportunities for students worldwide, to produce innovative and policy-relevant research, and to increase the scope for multidisciplinary collaborations.
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