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
-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
Robert Christensen ➚ BYU Marriott School of
Business
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

Source: International Association for the Study of Commons

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