The Association is devoted to bringing together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for the purpose of fostering better understandings, improvements, and sustainable solutions for environmental, electronic, and any other type of shared resource that is a commons or a common-pool resource. Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp/ Goals The Association's Goals are: - to encourage exchange of knowledge among diverse disciplines, areas, and resource types;
- to foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience; and,
- to promote appropriate institutional design.
Activities The Association encourages intellectual exchange on policy applications and commons issues through a number of activities, including: - sponsoring annual or biennial conferences and co-sponsoring regional workshops and conferences;
- publishing the The Commons Digest;
- collecting basic information about networks of scholars, practitioners, organizations, and institutions concerned with the commons, in order to encourage linkages and compile directories for IASC members within and between different regions of the world;
- identifying guest editors to collect information from their regions to promote the publication of articles by authors outside of North America in the The Commons Digest;
- creating bibliographies of commons research and publications;
- fostering interdisciplinary discussions and the production of scholarly, applied, and policy-oriented publications
Benefits Association Benefits include: - subscription to The Commons Digest,
- up-to-date compilations of commons-related publications;
- conference and publication discounts;
- access to a worldwide network of experts;
- announcements regarding professional activities
- Information Services such as:
- Access to the Digital Library of the Commons; Access to the Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis Library and IASC archive
- bibliographic and research consultation
Upcoming conference - The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10th to 14th, 2011. The Conference is being held in South Asia for the first time; and in a departure from the past, will be hosted by a practitioner organization - Foundation for Ecological Security (FES). http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/
- The IASC North American Regional Meeting will be held from September 10 to October 2, 2010. The conference will be hosted by the Center for the Study of International Diversity (http://csid.asu.edu/), Arizona State university, Tempe, Arizona.
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