13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

Theme: "Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future"          

Organizers:

• International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
• Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)

Venue: Hyderabad, India.

Description:

The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10th to 14th, 2011. The Conference is being held in South Asia for the first time; and in a departure from the past, will be hosted by a practitioner organization - Foundation for Ecological Security (FES).

The Conference will take a critical look at the interface between human and natural resources in general and Commons in particular, to build the understanding on the elements and interconnectedness that sustain life, collective action and our future. By placing the Conference agenda in the ongoing discussions around conservation, local governance, social exclusion and human rights, agrarian distress and rural livelihoods, and by pitching it at the interface of policy, research and practice, the aim is to bring practitioners, scholars and decision makers to a common meeting ground and identify areas and measures to inform policy and programmatic action as well as guide future research.

The Conference will deal with physical common resources such as Forests, Grazing resources, Protected Areas, Water Resources, Fisheries, Coastal Commons, Lagoon Commons, Irrigation Systems, Livestock and Commons as well as New Commons such as Information Commons, Cultural Commons, Genetic Resources, Patents, Climate, etc.

The above subjects will be captured under the following sub-themes:

• The Commons, Poverty and Social Exclusion
• Governance of the Commons: Decentralization, Property Rights, Legal Framework, Structure
• and Organization
• The Commons: Theory, Analytics and Data
• Globalisation, Commercialisation and the Commons
• Managing the Global Commons: Climate Change and other Challenges
• Managing Complex Commons (Lagoons, Protected Areas, Wetlands, Mountain Areas,
• Rangelands, Coastal Commons)
• New Commons (the New Global Commons – Digital Commons, Genetic Commons, Patents,
• Music, Literature etc)

Important Dates:

• Call for abstracts: December 14, 2009
• Abstract submissions: February 1, 2010 to April 15, 2010
• Abstract selections: To be announced shortly
• Early Registration: September 30, 2010
• Complete paper submissions: October 31, 2010

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Contact Details:
Jagdeesh Rao Puppala (Conference Co-chair)
Foundation for Ecological Security
PB No. 29, Anand - 388001, India
Tel: 02692-261402/261238/261239
Email: iasc2011@fes.org.in
Website: http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/