Category Archives: Elinor Ostrom

World Commons Week

Posted on 04/12/2023 by campaignerkate

Today is the start of World Commons Week, organised by the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). World commons extend far beyond the ancient and historic land in England and Wales; this is an expanding academic discipline, … Continue reading →

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Elinor Ostrom awards 2019

Posted on 06/07/2019 by campaignerkate

There were three winners of the Elinor Ostrom award 2019 and all had played a part in collective action. Continue reading →

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Defending the forests

Posted on 14/07/2017 by campaignerkate

The Elinor Ostrom Award for practitioners was won by the Asociación Forestal de Soria for its work in saving the forest commons of Spain. Continue reading →

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The energy of practitioners

Posted on 12/07/2017 by campaignerkate

I am pleased to report progress in the campaign to integrate practitioners & academics at the International Association for the Study of the Commons Continue reading →

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Tragedy of errors

Posted on 09/01/2016 by campaignerkate

I have signed up for email alerts from parliament when the words ‘common land’ are mentioned in Hansard.  And so I learnt of a reference to common land which was buried deep in a costive debate in the House of Lords on … Continue reading →

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Prize for a plucky pressure-group

Posted on 12/06/2015 by campaignerkate

Two weeks ago in Edmonton I was thrilled to present the 2015 Elinor Ostrom Award to a most impressive organisation.  AMAN, the Indigenous People’s Alliance of the Archipelago, won the award for practitioners.  It works across Indonesia to defend community rights to the commons.   … Continue reading →

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Finding the fruit

Posted on 16/09/2014 by campaignerkate

Do not be afraid to go out on a limb.  That’s where the fruit is. With these perceptive words, Camilla Widmark opened the third European conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) today in Umeå, Sweden. Camilla, … Continue reading →

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Allotment conundrum

Posted on 17/10/2013 by campaignerkate

It’s always good to see the late Nobel laureate Elinor (Lin) Ostrom mentioned in the press, and quite surprising to see a reference to her in The Economist.  Lin was a great scholar of the commons and founder of the … Continue reading →

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Lin’s legacy

Posted on 07/06/2013 by campaignerkate

On 5 June, on behalf of the Open Spaces Society I received the international Elinor Ostrom Award for the society’s work on commons.  This was at the 14th global conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons … Continue reading →

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Bringing academia and collective action together on commons

Posted on 05/06/2013 by campaignerkate

I am in Japan for the 14th global conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons.  It is being held at Kitafuji, the northern slopes of Mount Fuji, which includes extensive commons and has recently been designated … Continue reading →

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