Here’s one of the best reasons to be a member of IASC: we have wonderful conferences!
In September 2011, the European meeting was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, a lovely city with a charming historic old town and gardens. The conference venue was the Agricultural University of Plovdiv, which provided excellent conference facilities only a short walk from our hotel. Scholars from 21 countries met to discuss “Shared Resources in a Rapidly Changing World”; one focus was on the special challenges of resource management regimes in post-socialist countries.
This year IASC invites you to support the association and become member with a direct invitation from Susan Buck, current President.
Commons are spaces of collective action where communities maintain the environment to sustain their livelihoods and cultural values.
The commons are particularly important to the livelihoods of poor people in the South, to environmental integrity in the South and North, and to mitigating and adapting to climate change.
The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) has brought together an impressive array of evidence from around the world that communities are able to manage common property resources effectively and sustainably. But there is more to IASC than just great ideas, theory, and even cutting-edge research: we also have impact on the ground.