Sustainability Events

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains, slashed tourism, and eliminated markets for fish and farmed-seafood products, exacerbating ongoing challenges and prompting diverse and often drastic reconfigurations in fisheries and seafood production.

The Fisheries and Aquaculture Commons virtual conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners on the...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Commoning the Anthropocene virtual conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners interested in the role that the exercise of common property systems to land use and other shared resources (commoning) will play in the Anthropocene.

Topics include: conceptualizing commons across multiple scales; commoning in...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Conceptualizing the Urban Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss topics that include: conceptualizing the urban commons; new forms and trends in urban communing; interdisciplinary methods to study the urban commons; urban commons and the rights to the city; and the...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Polycentric Governance aims to bring together scholars and practitioners from various sectors, disciplines, and epistemological traditions to advance our understanding of how polycentric governance works in practice and share knowledge as a diverse research community.

Friday, March 19th is the deadline for submitting...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Water Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners on the water commons broadly understood. Topics include climate-change impacts (flooding, storm surge, drought) involving all forms of water (ice sheets, glaciers, rivers & lakes, groundwater, clouds, effluent) and all types of water uses (irrigation,...

The IASC 2021 Conference: Knowledge Commons aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to address problems defined by knowledge systems. Topics include: innovation spaces; digital resources like Wikipedia and Stack exchange; open-source software development; the future of science and education; the archival of existing knowledge; cultural commons; and...

The IASC 2021 General Conference follows upon a series of topical conference held earlier in 20210. The live-streamed conference aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers for the purpose of improving governance and management, advancing understanding, and creating sustainable solutions for commons, common-pool resources, or any other...