Prof. Dr. Erling Berge became professor of property rights institutions at NMBU in 2011. There he participated in the creation of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Land Tenure Studies. He has worked on problems in demography, urban and regional development, and economic sociology, but since 1985 he has increasingly focused on institutional theory of land tenure regimes. During 2002-2004 he served as president for the International Association for the Study of Commons, and in 2004 together with Tine de Moor he started the International Journal of the Commons.
Berge graduated from the University of Bergen in 1973 with a major in sociology and minors in mathematics and statistics. He received his Ph.D. (sociology) from Boston University in 1981, and was promoted to full professor of sociology (methods) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1995. Berge has previously held positions at the Institute of Applied Social Research, Oslo, the Agricultural University of Norway, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. During sabbaticals he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Essex, Colchester, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo.
I study environmental governance, particularly the governance of ecosystems. My research agenda includes an interest in common pool resources (CPRs), socio-ecological systems, decentralization reforms, local democracy and participation, and the solving of collective action dilemmas.
Prof. Dr. Erling Berge became professor of property rights institutions at NMBU in 2011. There he participated in the creation of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Land Tenure Studies. He has worked on problems in demography, urban and regional development, and economic sociology, but since 1985 he has increasingly focused on institutional theory of land tenure regimes. During 2002-2004 he served as president for the International Association for the Study of Commons, and in 2004 together with Tine de Moor he started the International Journal of the Commons.
Berge graduated from the University of Bergen in 1973 with a major in sociology and minors in mathematics and statistics. He received his Ph.D. (sociology) from Boston University in 1981, and was promoted to full professor of sociology (methods) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1995. Berge has previously held positions at the Institute of Applied Social Research, Oslo, the Agricultural University of Norway, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. During sabbaticals he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Essex, Colchester, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo.
I'm mainly interested in computational social sciences with applications on environmental issues. Besides data (and big data) analysis, I'm especially fascinated in two research approaches: (1) the use of experimental methods in the study of social mechanisms, with a specific reference to social dilemma situations; (2) the application of agent-based modelling to analyse social and social-ecological system. These different approaches can be used in isolation or, better, combined to reach a better understanding of the problem under consideration.
John Kerr is an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in applied economics in 1990 at the Food Research Institute, Stanford University. Before joining the faculty at Michigan State University in 1999 he worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC.
His research interests are in international agricultural development and natural resource management. Focal areas of his research have been on adoption of agricultural technology and natural resource conservation practices, collective action and property rights related to natural resource management, and the interaction of these things with rural poverty in developing countries. His current research focuses on incentive-based conservation programs, including methods for promoting adoption of conservation practices and potential unanticipated drawbacks of the use of monetary incentives.
I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology focusing on Environment and Development. My interests are in natural resource commons governance in southern Africa with particular focus on the intersection of local people, the State, conservation and protected areas, and how power and knowledge intersect in commons management as well as the accompanying implications for policy and development.
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Member graduate programs in Anthropology; Ecology; and Geography. Former president of the IASC. Fellow of Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science; Soc. for Applied Anthropology; Amer. Anthropological Assoc.
I received my Ph.D. in political science in 1978 from Indiana University with Vincent Ostrom as my dissertation chair. I was a member of the National Academy Panel on Common Property Resources, which led to the formation of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, in which I was a founding member and served on the first governing council. I wrote the framework piece for the National Academy case studies, published in 1992 in Making the Commons Work, edited by Dan Bromley, et al. More recently I have been interested in urban commons and presented at the IASC's Bologna conference, a piece subsequently published as "The Neighborhood as Commons: Reframing Neighborhood Decline" with co-author Jeremy D. W. Clifton in the Fordham Law Journal (2017).
Dr. Pinkerton is a maritime anthropologist who has integrated common property theory and cultural/political ecology in considering the role communities play in the management of adjacent renewable natural resources. She has played a key role in developing the theory and practice of power-sharing and stewardship through co-management agreements. Beginning with the introduction to her 1989 edited volume Cooperative Management of Local Fisheries (UBC Press), she has been generating middle-range theoretical propositions about the conditions under which co-management is likely to arise and to endure. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on fisheries and forestry co-management arrangements, and in Fisheries that Work (1995, co-authored with Martin Weinstein), began to develop a more comprehensive framework for analyzing and comparing co-management arrangements. This work has since evolved into analysis of the developmental sequence of types of co-management rights and activities.
Yahua (Bert) Wang is currently Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. and Master in Management and Bachelor in engineering from Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, under the guidance of Professor Elinor Ostrom. Professor Wang’s main research fields include Rural Studies and Public Policy, Commons Governance and Institutional Analysis, Natural Resources and Environmental Management. He has published 10 books and more than 100 academic papers in academic journals. He was the principal investigator of more than 30 research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Foundation of China, and international organizations.
