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Community Organizations International Association for the Study of the Commons
International Association for the Study of the Commons
International Association for the Study of the Commons
Acronym
IASC
Non-profit organization

Focal point

IASC Secretariat
Website
Phone number
+1 480 727 4640

Location

Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative
P.O. Box 872701
Tempe
Arizona
United States
Working languages
English

The IASC is the leading professional association dedicated to the commons. The association, founded in 1989, is devoted to bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, 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 form of shared resource.

The IASC aims to:

– encourage exchange of knowledge among diverse disciplines, areas, and resource types
– foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience
– promote appropriate institutional design

Members:

Resources

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Conflict and mediation in high altitude rangeland property rights in Bhutan

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2017
Bhutan

Semi-nomadic yak herders of Bhutan depend on high altitude rangelands and yaks for their livelihoods. Conflicts over high altitude rangelands among herders can lead to sub-optimal management with negative impacts on the environment, livelihoods and socio-economic well-being of semi-nomadic yak herders.

Land Rights, Mining and Resistance: New Struggles on Mongolia’s Pastoral Commons

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2008
Mongolia

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and agricultural decollectivisation, post-socialist rural contexts have afforded commons scholars particularly fertile ground for examination of institutional change and evolution under new modes of governance. In Mongolia, as elsewhere, such transformations have been characterised by the erosion of state influence and de jure and/or de facto devolution of land and resource rights.