ISNIE pays homage to Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012)
Lin Ostrom was senior research director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and professor at Indiana University. She was also a member of ISNIE and gave a keynote lecture at the 2010 conference. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." Through a multidisciplinary approach that combined theory, field studies and laboratory experiments, she analyzed the many governance alternatives to market or governmental regulation to prevent the "tragedy of the commons”. In her early work she developed the analysis of polycentric governance in the provision of public goods. Her later work focused on how humans interact with ecosystems to maintain long-term sustainable resource yields. Together with her husband Vincent, she founded the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 1973. This has been the root of an interdisciplinary community of scholars who have been developing research on the diversity of governance system with a focus on the interplay among social and ecological systems.
In order to celebrate Professor Ostrom's accomplishments, and to honor her memory just a year after she passed away, ISNIE is sponsoring a track of five sessions at the 2013 meeting, which will be held on the 21st of June.
8:30-10:00: ADDRESSING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES: TRANSACTION COSTS CONSIDERATIONS, Room A.5
Organizer and Chair: Gary Libecap
Presenters:
- Gary D Libecap
Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations - Trevor O'Grady and Claudio Tagliapietra
Local Resource Management and the Consequences of Institutional Change:
Evidence from Napoleon's Intervention in the Italian Alps - Dominic P. Parker, Randal R. Rucker and Peter H. Nickerson
Property Rights and Natural Resource Curses: Micro Evidence from a Tribal Fishery - Douglas Allen
What Explains the Sudden Growth of Cash Rent Contracts in Agriculture
11:00-12:30: COMMON POOL AND COLLECTIVE ACTION, Room A.5
Organizer and Chair: Mary M. Shirley
Discussant: Gary D Libecap
Presenters:
- Eduardo Araral
Does Geography Matter to Institutional Choice? A Comparative Study of Long-Lived Commons - Maria P. Recalde
Local leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia - Brian Robinson
Institutions for Spatially Managing the Harvest of Wild Forest Products: Implications for Welfare and Ecology - David Skarbek
Prison Gangs and Polycentric Governance Regimes
14:20-15:15: THE LIVING LEGACY OF ELINOR OSTROM, Aula Magna, Rettorato dell'Università di Firenze
Chair: David Levine
Presenters:
- Daniel H. Cole
Unfinished Business in the Ostrom Workshop: - The Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES)
- Marco Janssen
Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems
15h45-17:15: GOVERNANCE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Room A.5
Organizer and Chair: Lee Alston
- Dean Lueck and Jonathan Yoder
An Economic History of Wildfire Suppression in the United State - Steven Smith
Trust, Repeated Interactions, and User Group Disturbances in Common Property Irrigation - Henry E. Smith
Property As Platform: Coordinating Standards for Technologial Innovation - Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller
Dissipative Inclusion in the Brazilian Forest Code
17:30-19:00: GOVERNING NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE COMMONS, Room A.5
Organizer and Chair: Tom Dedeurwaerdere
- Tom Dedeurwaerdere and
Paolo Melindi Ghidi
A theory of voluntary networked knowledge goods and coalition formation - Brett Frischmann
- Two Enduring Lessons from Elinor Ostrom
- Paul A. David and Edward W. Steinmueller
Underutilisation of Scientific Research Commons: Causes, Consequences and Remedial Strategies - Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Vieira
Information Commons Between Peer-production and Commodification: the Case of Cloud Computing
