

The World Commons Week marks the 50th anniversary of Gareth Hardin’s ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ study. This led to a wide ranging debate on the commons, and as a result, many new studies have contested the original hypothesis that they are not sustainable, on the contrary: defining commons based on the three essential principles of community; resource; governance- has the opposite result.
What is more, the relevant research conducted in the past fifty years in many areas, such as fisheries, forests, pastures, water, urban governance, technology, has also provided solutions to resolving problems that society is facing today, and will also do so in the future.
The World Commons Week begins on the 4th of October after which local events will take place around the world, and well as two conferences in the US. The most accessible part of the week, to everyone, will be at the end of the event, on the 12th of October, with a series of 24h live seminars which take place at noon in all time zones.
Planned Webinars:
UTC Timezone |
Speaker | Institution | Webinar title | Country |
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-12 | Drew Gerkey ➚ | Oregon State University | Enduring Networks and Emerging Institutions: Cooperation and Collective Action in Northeast Siberia ➚ |
United States |
-11 | Courtney Carothers ➚ | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
Fisheries privatization: a false panacea for commons management ➚ |
United States |
-10 | Leticia Merino ➚ | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Commons in Mexico and Latin America |
Mexico |
-9 | Joseph DiMento ➚ | University of California, Irvine | Environmental Governance of an Ocean Commons: the Arctic ➚ |
United States |
-8 | Xavier Basurto ➚ | Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University |
Current perspectives on local and global fishing commons research and policy |
United States and Mexico |
-7 | Michael Madison ➚ | Pitt Law | Governing Knowledge Commons: A Short History and Update ➚ |
United States |
-6 | David Bollier ➚ | Schumacher Center for a New Economics |
Free, Fair and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons |
United States |
-5 | Krister Andersson (presenter) ➚ |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
The Emergence of Local Institutions for the Governance of Forest Commons: Experimental Evidence from Bolivia and Uganda ➚ |
United States |
Kimberlee Chang ➚ | ||||
Adriana Molina-Garzon ➚ | ||||
-4 | Deborah Delgado Pugley ➚ | Pontifical Catholic University of Peru |
Indigenous peoples, climate change, and the commons |
Peru |
-3 | Saba Siddiki ➚ | Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs |
Studying Commons Governance with the Institutional Grammar Tool ➚ |
United States |
-2 | Juan Camilo Cárdenas Campo ➚ |
University of Los Andes | Reflections on 20 Years Running Experiments in the Field to Understand the Commons |
Colombia |
-1 | Brenda Bushouse ➚ | University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Connecting Nonprofit and Voluntary Research to the Commons |
United States |
Brent Never ➚ | University of Missouri-Kansas City |
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Robert Christensen ➚ | BYU Marriott School of Business |
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0 | John Powell ➚ | University of Gloucestershire | Perspectives Along the Prime Meridian: Managing Water as a Commons in Ghana and England ➚ |
United Kingdom |
Everisto Mapedza ➚ | International Water Management Institute |
Ghana | ||
1 | Tine De Moor ➚ | University of Utrecht | Back on the agenda! Learning from the historical commons for a sustainable future |
The Netherlands |
2 | Frank Matose | University of Cape Town | State forests and their implications for access and rights: Insights from Southern Africa |
South Africa |
3 | Esther Mwangi ➚ | Center for International Forestry Research |
Key issues in the governance of linked forest and water resources: Cases from East Africa’s “water towers” |
Kenya |
4 | Harini Nagendra ➚ | Azim Premji University | The Urban Commons in India: Transformations in Norms, Imaginations and Practice ➚ |
India |
5 | Jagdeesh Rao Puppala ➚ | Foundation for Ecological Security |
Reflections on a Decade of Conservation of Natural Resources through Collective Action in India (tentative) |
India |
6 | Michel Bauwens ➚ | P2P Foundation | Using commons-based peer production for equitable and sustainable production for human needs |
Thailand (presenting from Brussels) |
7 | Juan Pulhin | University of the Philippines Los Baños |
Integrating the Commons in Landscape Governance in a Changing Climate: Opportunities and Challenges |
Philippines |
8 | Yahua Wang (Bert) ➚ | Tsinghua University | Water commons studies in China: dialogue with the 50-anniversary of the global commons research |
China |
Araral Eduardo (Ed) ➚ | National University of Singapore |
Singapore | ||
9 | Makoto Inoue ➚ | Waseda University | Current Social Problems in Japan and Its Implications to the Studies of the Commons ➚ |
Japan |
10 | Helen Ross ➚ | University of Queensland | Strengthening community- government relationships in small- scale fisheries: Selayar, Eastern Indonesia ➚ |
Australia |
11 | Cameron Shorter ➚ | Open Source Geospatial Foundation |
Why are businesses and governments struggling to replicate open communities? ➚ |
Australia |
12 | Dan Hikuroa ➚ | The University of Auckland | Voice of the River – Experimenting with Commons in Aotearoa New Zealand ➚ |
New Zealand |