Current Officers
President
Susan Buck
Susan J. Buck is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches environmental law and policy; since 1999, she has been director of the university’s Environmental Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration with a specialization in Natural Resources Management from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) in 1984. Her primary research area is federal-state relations in wildlife management. In 1996, she was a visiting scholar at Indiana University, and in 1997, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Selected publications and references
Public Administration in Theory and Practice 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2010. Co-author.
Understanding Environmental Administration and Law, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006.
The Global Commons: An Introduction. Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 1998.
“A ‘Wicked’ Problem: Institutional Structures and Wildlife Management Success,” in Wildlife and Society: The Science of Human Dimensions (M. Manfredo et al., eds.). Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009: 172-183.
“Saving All the Parts: Science and Sustainability,” in The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision-Making: Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law (J. Bowersox and J. Gillroy, eds.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press: 2002: 219-227.
“Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle,” in The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision- Making: Sustainability, Democracy, and Normative Argument in Policy and Law (J. Bowersox and J. Gillroy, eds.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press: 2002: 25-30.
Contacts
Susan Buck
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Phone: 336-256-0520
Fax: 336-334-4315
E-mail: s.buck@iasc-commons.org
President-Elect
Leticia Merino
Contacts
Leticia Merino
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria
Mexico City, DF
C.P. 04510, MEXICO
Phone: 52 55 5622 7400 ext. 284
E-mail: lmerino@servidor.unam.mx
Immediate Past President
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington DC, and Coordinator of the CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)—a program that examines the management of various types of commons. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Development Sociology from Cornell University. She grew up in rural India, which gave her an early appreciation of the importance of water and other common pool resources. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary research on water policy, local organizations, property rights, gender analysis, and the impact of agricultural research on poverty, with field work in Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and India.
Selected publications and references
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth. 2007. Beyond panaceas in irrigation institutions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:15200–15205.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702296104
Meinzen-Dick, R.S., A. Knox, F. Place, and B. M. Swallow. (eds.). 2002. Innovation in natural resource management: The role of property rights and collective action in developing countries. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press and International Food Policy Research Institute.
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/jhu/innovnrm.htm
Bruns, B. R., and R. S. Meinzen-Dick (eds.). 2000. Negotiating water rights. New Delhi: Vistaar and London: Intermediate Technology Press.
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/negwaterrights.asp
Meinzen-Dick, R.S., and M. Di Gregorio (Eds.). 2004. Collective action and property rights for sustainable development. 2020 Focus 11. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
http://www.ifpri.org/2020/focus/focus11.htm
Meinzen-Dick, R.S., and R. Pradhan. 2002. Legal pluralism and dynamic property rights. CAPRi Working Paper No. 22. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/pdf/capriwp22.pdf
Meinzen-Dick, R.S., E. Mwangi, and S. Dohrn. 2006. Securing the commons. CAPRi Policy Brief 4. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
http://www.capri.cgiar.org/pdf/polbrief_04.pdf
Contacts
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K St. NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-862-5692
Fax: 202-467-4439
E-mail: r.meinzen-dick@cgiar.org
Executive Council
Tine de Moor
(2008-2014)
Tine (Martina) De Moor, PhD, studied social and economic history and environmental sciences at the universities of Ghent (Belgium), Antwerp and London. She is currently associate professor at the department for social and economic history of Utrecht University. Through an interdisciplinary approach for the study of the long-term evolution of rural commons, De Moor has been able to revise the historical basis of the widely debated metaphor of the Tragedy of the Commons, as launched in 1968 by G. Hardin. Whereas from a modern-day perspective the flaws in Hardin’s theory have been well-documented, the historical deficiencies in his theory were hardly ever studied. De Moor’s research, combined extensive empirical research and analysis with explicit modelling and a strongly developed theoretical framework, has been published in several books, journals (amongst others the Economic History Review). For this research, De Moor was awarded the prize for the best PhD in pre-industrial economic history by the International Economic History Association in 2006. During her research De Moor coordinated, within the CORN-network, an international group of historians working on the management of common lands, for whom De Moor has organised several meetings, which resulted in an edited volume (De Moor et. al. 2002; De Moor 2002; see also De Moor 2003 and 2007). De Moor has been deeply involved in The International Association for the Study of the Commons organisation. Besides the organisation of the first European regional IASC-conference in Brescia in 2006, De Moor, together with Norwegian political scientist Prof. Erling Berge, was founding (co-)editor (in charge until July 2008) of the International Journal of the Commons, and she has been member of the IASC Executive council since 2008. De Moor is currently in charge of two large projects on institutions for collective action, of which one is a European Research Council Starting Grant. Check out: www.collective-action.info.
Selected publications and references
T. De Moor, ‘Avoiding tragedies. A Flemish common and its commoners under the pressure of social and economic change during the eighteenth century’, the Economic History Review, February 2009, pp. 1-22.
T. De Moor, ‘The Silent Revolution: A New Perspective on the Emergence of Commons, Guilds, and Other Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe’ The International Review of Social History (special issue on guilds), 53 (suppl. 16) 2008, pp. 175-208.
G. Bravo and T. De Moor, ‘The Commons in Europe: from past to future’, The International Journal of the Commons, 2(2) 2008, pp. 155-161 (URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-IJC/08008)
T. De Moor and Erling Berge, ‘Welcome to the International Journal of the Commons’, in The International Journal of the Commons, (1)1 2007, pp. 1-2 (http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/77).
T. De Moor, ‘The past is not another country. The long-term historical development of commons as a source of inspiration for research and policy’, for the Commons-Digest, Quarterly Publication of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, June 2007, pp. 1-4.
Contacts
Tine de Moor
Research Institute for History and Culture
Utrecht University
Drift 10
3512 HL Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: 00 31 30 253 64 60
Email: t.demoor@uu.nl
Frank Matose
Frank Matose joined the University of Cape Town (UCT), Department of Sociology in January 2009 as a Senior Lecturer from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape where he was for 5 years. Previously he was a researcher with the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at the regional office for Eastern and Southern Africa in Harare. His interests are in natural resource commons governance in southern Africa and how power and knowledge intersect in commons management as well as the accompanying implications for policy and development. He is currently involved in a multi-partner research project funded by the European Union titled Defragmenting African Resource Management (DARMA) in Southern Africa. The project focuses on the fragmentation of commons management as a problem at a variety of levels.
Selected publications and references
Matose, F. & Watts, S. 2010 Towards community-based forest management in Southern Africa: Do decentralisation experiments work for livelihoods? Environmental Conservation 37 (3): 310-319.
Matose F. 2009. Knowledge, power, livelihoods and commons practices in Dwesa-Cwebe, South Africa, Development Southern Africa, Vol 26, No.4: 627-637.
Hara, M. Turner, S. Haller, T and Matose, F, Knowledge, political economy and power: understanding the governance of the commons in southern Africa. Development Southern Africa, Vol.26, No.4:521-537.
Mandondo, A., R. Prabhu, F. Matose, eds (Book). (2008). Coping Amidst Chaos: Studies on Adaptive Collaborative Management from Zimbabwe. ACM Series. Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR
Contacts
Dr. Frank Matose (2006-2012)
Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology
University of Cape Town
Private Bag X3
RONDEBOSCH 7701
Cape Town
South Africa
Phone:+27 (0)21 650 3536
Fax: +27 (0)21 689 7576
email: frank.matose@uct.ac.za
alternate email: fmatose@gmail.com
Website: www.soc.uct.ac.za
Jesse Ribot
(2008-2014)
Contacts
Jesse Ribot
World Resources Institute
10 G Street NE Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002, USA
Phone (until 1 Oct): 1-202-729-7753
E-Mail: Ribot@illinois.edu
Doug Wilson
(2006-2012)
Douglas Clyde Wilson, Senior Researcher, Sociologist, PhD. Michigan State University 1996 is an environmental and natural resource sociologist with extensive experience and more than 60 publications on the management of aquatic commons in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. His research focuses on communicative systems theory and the dynamics of institutional scale, aquatic ecosystem governance and policy, and the sociology of science/knowledge. An important substantive focus of his research has been the development of the knowledge base for the ecosystem approach to fisheries and he has recently published a book on the subject. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Common Property Resource Digest from 1999 - 2005. He recently served as the coordinator of the three-year, EU Funded Cross Sectoral Commons Governance in Southern Africa (CROSCOG) Project which compared governance approaches in complex African commons. He is the immediate past chair of the Working Group on Fisheries Systems of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas. He has served as the coordinator of three pan-European, EU funded research projects and as a work package coordinator on five others that all dealt directly with issues of developing science and knowledge in support of marine and fisheries policy.
Selected publications and references
Wilson, D.C. The Paradoxes of Transparency: Scientific Institutions and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in Europe. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press (2009)
Hauge, K.H. and Wilson, D.C. (Eds.) Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management – Global Experiences and European Prospects. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (2009).
L. Motos and D. C. Wilson (Eds) The Knowledge Base for Fisheries Management. Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Series, Volume 36. Elsevier (2006)
Wilson, D.C., J.R. Nielsen and P. Degnbol (Eds) The Fisheries Co-management Experience: Accomplishments, Challenges and Prospects. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003)
Contacts
Doug Wilson (2006-2012)
Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development,
P.O. Box 104
DK-9850 Hirtshals, Denmark
Phone: 45 98 94 28 55
Fax: 45 98 94 42 68
E-mail: dw@ifm.aau.dk
Ashwini Chhatre
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and also serve as the Senior Editor for the journal Conservation Letters. I am an Indian citizen, male, 42 years old, and living in the United States for the last ten years. Five of those were spent in Graduate School at Duke University, where I was awarded a Ph.D. in Political Science. I was the first Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at Harvard University in 2006-07, before coming to Illinois. Between my BA in Economics from University of Delhi in 1990 and the start of my PhD at Duke, I spent 11 years working in different parts of India, mostly as a community organizer and social activist working on issues related to natural resources like land, forests, and water. A background in Economics, graduate training in Political Science, and long-standing engagement with scholarship in Geography, Anthropology, Landscape Ecology, and Environmental History ensure that my research will never be confined to a single discipline! My main research interests lie in the study of the intersection of democracy with environment and development, with a more recent focus on climate change vulnerability and adaptation. All my field research has so far been confined to India. I am now collaborating with graduate students in working on Tanzania and Senegal, and with IFRI researchers in analyzing the joint production of livelihoods and forest-related outcomes in countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. I also serve on the Governing Board of Social Science Working Group, Society for Conservation Biology.
Selected publications and references
Book:
Ashwini Chhatre and Vasant Saberwal (2006). Democratizing Nature: Politics, Conservation, and
Development in India. Oxford; New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Articles:
Persha, Lauren, Arun Agrawal, Ashwini Chhatre (2011). Social and Ecological Synergy: Local Rulemaking,
Forest Livelihoods, and Biodiversity Conservation. Science 331: 1606-1608.
Agrawal, Arun, Daniel Nepstad, and Ashwini Chhatre (2011, forthcoming). Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation. Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Chhatre, Ashwini, and Arun Agrawal (2009). Synergies and Trade-offs between Carbon Storage
and Livelihood Benefits from Forest Commons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
106:17667-17670.
Chhatre, Ashwini, and Arun Agrawal (2008). Forest Commons and Local Enforcement. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 105(36): 13286-13291.
Agrawal, Arun, Ashwini Chhatre, and Rebecca Hardin (2008). Changing Governance of World’s Forests.
Science 320:1460-62.
Contacts
232 Davenport MC-150, 607 S. Mathews Ave
Urbana IL 61801 USA
Phone: (217) 244 3485
Email: achhatre@]illinois.edu
Web: http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/chhatre/index.html
Lapologang Magole
Dr Lapologang Magole is a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Botswana’s Okavango Research Institute in Maun, Botswana. She received her PhD in Development Studies (Environmental Policy Analysis) at the University of East Anglia, UK in 2003.
As a researcher she has worked on issues of environmental management policy and natural resources governance for over ten years. Through her research and application (development work) she has interacted with resource users at grass roots level, donors, policy makers and implementers and has come to appreciate multiple interests and aims with regard to natural resource management and use. Her publications are in the areas of; institutions for management of the commons, rangeland management dynamics, issues affecting development and resource access of the San and other minority communities and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Her geographical scope of work has widened to the whole Southern African Development Community (SADC) through networking and collaborative work.
As an environmental policy development practitioner Dr. Magole has vast experience and training in stakeholder meeting facilitation (mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and empowerment), project management and strategic planning. Dr Magole is also an experienced trainer in participatory planning and learning methods for natural resources management, environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental analysis (SEA).
Selected publications and references
L. Magole L, Turner, S & Buscher, B (2010) Towards an effective commons governance system in Southern Africa? International Journal of the Commons Vol. 4, no 2. pp. 602–620 (Contributed data collection, analysis and manuscript writing)
Magole, L (2009). The ‘shrinking commons’ in the Lake Ngami grass lands Botswana: the impact of national rangeland policy. Development Southern Africa. Vol 26 (4), p611-626. 2)
Magole, L. & Magole, I. L. (2009). The Okavango: Whose Delta is it? Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 34 (2009) 874–880.
Magole, L. (2008) The feasibility of implementing an integrated management plan of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 33 (2008) 906–912
Magole, L (2007) “The history of conservation evictions in Botswana: the struggle continues …with new hope” Policy Matters 15, p68-76
Rohde R.F., Moleele, N. M., Mphale, M., Allsopp N., Chanda, R., Hoffman, M. T., Magole L., Young, E (2006) “Dynamics of grazing policy and practice: environmental and social impacts in three communal areas of Southern Africa. Environmental science and Policy 9, 302 – 316.
Contacts
Dr. Lapologang Magole
Head, Planning & Marketing Office
University of Botswana
Okavango Research Institute
Private Bag 285
Maun
Botswana
Tel: +267 681 7227
Fax: +267 686 1835
Web: www.orc.ub.bw
E-mail: lmagole@orc.ub.bw
News: http://flowhoorc.blogspot.com
Secretariat
Gabriela Ortiz
Executive Director
Contacts
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria
Mexico City, DF
C.P. 04510, MEXICO
Tel. 0052-55-56227423
Tel. 001-317-608-3067
E-mail: gabrielaortiz@iasc-commons.org
Simone Buratti
Communications Coordinator
Contacts
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria
Mexico City, DF
C.P. 04510, MEXICO
Tel. 0052-55-56227423
Tel. 001-317-608-3067
E-mail: buratti.simone@iasc-commons.org
María Teresa Ruíz
María Teresa Ruíz
Conference Liaison
Contacts
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria
Mexico City, DF
C.P. 04510, MEXICO
Tel. 0052-55-56227423
Tel. 001-317-608-3067
E-mail: teresa.ruiz@iasc-commons.org
Information Officer
Emily Castle
Emily Castle
Contacts
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Indiana University
513 N. Park
Bloomington, IN 47408 USA
Phone: (812) 855-9636
Fax: (812) 855-3150
E-mail: efcastle@indiana.edu
The International Journal of the Commons Editor-in-chief
Frank van Laerhoven
Contacts
Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences
Utrecht University
Heidelberglaan 2
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 30 2531036
E-mail: laerhoven@geo.uu.nl
2008 Program Chairs
John Powell and Chris Short
John Powell & Chris Short
Contacts
University of Gloucestershire
Dunholme Villa
Park Campus
CHELTENHAM
GL50 2RH
England
Phone: +44 (0)1242 714129 (John Powell)
Phone: +44 (0)1242 714550 (Chris Short)
Fax: +44 (0)1242 544040
Email: jpowell@glos.ac.uk, cshort@glos.ac.uk
Commons Digest Editor
Alyne E. Delaney
Alyne E. Delaney
Contacts
Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development,
P.O. Box 104
DK-9850 Hirtshals, Denmark
Phone:45 98 94 28 55
Fax: 45 98 94 42 68
E-mail: ad@ifm.dk
Nominating Committee
Narpat S. Jodha
Narpat S. Jodha, Chair
Contacts
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
GPO Box: 3226
Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 977-1-525 312
Fax: 977-1-524 509
E-Mail: Jodha@icimod.org.np
Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson, Executive Council Member
Detailed contact information is listed above under executive council.
Frank Matose
Frank Matose, Executive Council Member
Detailed contact information is listed above under executive council.
David Bray
David Bray, Member-at-Large
Contacts
Department of Environmental Studies
Florida International University
ECS 346
Miami, FL 33199, USA
Phone: 305-348-6236
Fax: 305-348-6137
E-mail: brayd@fiu.edu
Paul Ongugo
Paul Ongugo, Member-at-Large
Contacts
Kenya Forestry Research Institute
P.O. Box 20412
Nairobi, 00200
Kenya
Phone: 254 722 820 660
E-mail: ongugopaul@gmail.com
