Conference Panels

Below we list all accepted panels organized by conference sub-theme. Click on Abstract to expand.

Our common SDGs?
Commons towards urban transformation
Indigenous peoples and globalisation
Commons between colonial legacies and the Anthropocene
Modelling and multi-methods approaches in polycentric commons systems
The drama of the grabbed commons
Global health commons between pandemics and glocal health
Opportunities and challenges of digital commons
Conservation, environmental justice and the commons
Local institution building and radical futures for the commons
Advances in Frameworks and Theory

1. Our common SDGs?

1.1. Sanctioning Grabs or Grabbing Opportunities for Collective Action from Below? Challenges and opportunities of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Commons

Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller¹, Peter Larsen², and Ilkhom Soliev³

¹University of Bern, Switzerland, ²University of Geneva, Switzerland, ³Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

1.2. “The food systems we want”: Justice in food systems transformations

Co-Chairs: Sabin Bieri and Theresa Tribaldos

Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland

1.3. “Territories of commons in Europe”: a European research network to unveil the “invisible reality” of the European commons

Co-Chairs: Nevenka Bogataj¹, Cristina Dalla Torre², Pablo Dominguez^3,4,5, Mateja Smid Hribar⁶, Yanka Kazakova-Mateva^7,8, Antonio Manzoni⁹, Marianne Penker¹⁰, Chris Short^11,12, and Mimi Urbanc¹³

¹Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, Slovenia, ²Eurac Research and University of Padova, Italy, ³Laboratoire de Géographie de l’Environnement (GEODE), UMR 5602 CNRS – Université Toulouse 2, France, ⁴Departament d’Antropologia social i cultural (AHCISP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Laboratoire Population-Environnement-Développement (USAGES), UMR 151 IRD, Aix-Marseille Université, France, ⁶Anton Melik Geographical Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia, ⁷University of National and World Economy, Bularia, ⁸Society for Territorial and Environmental Prosperity, Bulgaria, ⁹Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, ¹⁰BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, ¹¹University of Gloucestershire, UK, ¹²Countryside & Community Research Institute, UK, ¹³ZRC SAZU, Slovenia

1.4. Cultural Heritage as a Commons: Governance Challenges through the lens of UNESCO Heritage Conventions and the Sustainable Development Goals

Co-Chairs: Peter Gould¹ and Hanna Schreiber²

¹University of Indiana, USA, ²University of Warsaw, Poland

1.5. Energy as a commons

Co-Chairs: Thomas Bauwens¹ and Tine De Moor²

¹University of Edinburgh, UK, ²Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands

1.6. Role of informal property rights and community relations in sustaining global food, land, and ecosystem commons

Co-Chairs: Yugank Goyal¹, Pranab Ranjan Chaudhury², and Ranjan Kumar Ghosh³

¹FLAME University, India, ²Center for Land Governance, India, ³Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India

1.7. The Alaska Model

Chair: Ian Laing

Institute of the North, USA

1.8. Sustainability: People, Power and Planet Nexus

Chair: Parita Sureshchandra Shah

Department of Geography, Environmental and Population Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya

2. Commons towards urban transformation

2.1. Shaping Africa’s Urban Futures: Planning and Governance Dilemmas

Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka

Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria

2.2. Collective property and urbanisation: challenges and opportunities

Co-Chairs: Barbara Lipietz, Alexandra Panman, and Michael Walls

University College London, UK

2.3. Commons Towards Urban Transformation of Open Space and Informal Economy

Co-Chairs: Timothy Adams¹, Philipa Birago Akuoko², and Deniz Ay²

¹SNF Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, Switzerland, ²Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

2.4. Urban Commons in Drylands

Co-Chairs: Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe¹ and Qian Zhang²

¹The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, School of Government and Society, Israel, ²Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden

2.5. Advocating for Policy Change in Urban Commons

Co-Chairs: Forrest Flesichman¹ and Meghan Klasic²

¹Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, USA, ²Minneapolis-St. Paul Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, University of Minnesota, USA

2.6. Green cover, urban development, waste management

Chair: Keshav Lahoti

APS, India

3. Indigenous peoples and globalisation

3.1. Towards Decolonizing Africa's Development Futures: The Place of Local Knowledge and Institutions

Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka

Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria

3.2. Self-recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Self-government for Responsible Territorial Management

Chair: Ke Jung

Chiang Mai University, Thailand

3.3. Commons beyond resources: Indigeneity, Sovereignty and Ecological Care

Chair: Lara Giordana

Dept. of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy

3.4. The Arctic – commons and the diversity of (de-)colonial configurations

Chair: Gertrude Saxinger

University of Vienna, Austria

3.5. What 'Territories of life' have in common: Exploring linkages between ICCAs and the commons under threat

Chairs: Tobias Haller¹, Everisto Mapedza², and Neema Pathak Broome³

¹University of Bern, Switzerland, ²International Water Management Institute, Ghana, ³Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, India

3.6. Pastoralist communities in the glocal world; Towards protecting the historical legacy of common resources conservation in the Anthropocene

Co-Chairs: Daniele Brombal and Ali Razmkhah

Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, Italy

3.7. Indigenous autonomy and the global commons: pathways for appropriate recognition and support

Co-Chairs: Thomas Niederberger^1,2 and George Smith³

¹University of Bern, Switzerland, ²CooperAcción, Peru, ³UK

3.8. Pastoralists beyond the cross-roads in the Horn of Africa: what are the new promising coping strategies to restore hope?

Co-Chairs: R. Ngugi Kinuthia¹ and Boniface Kiteme^2,3

¹Department of Land Resources Management & Agricultural Technology (LARMAT), University of Nairobi, Kenya, ²Department of Geography, Environmental and Population Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya, ³Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), Nanyuki-Kenya

4. Commons between colonial legacies and the Anthropocene

4.1. Cross-border livestock Trade and Small Arms and Conflict in Pastoral Areas of the Horn of Africa: Case Study from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya

Chair: Ame Abdurahman

Ireland

4.2. An African Anthropocene?

Co-Chairs: Rony Emmenegger¹ and Federico Luisetti²

¹University of Basel, Switzerland, ²University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

4.3. The colonial enterprise and the commons: conflict or congruence over ideas and institutions for colonial productivity and today’s development

Co-Chairs: Samuel Assembe-Mvond¹, Patrice Bigombe², and Moira Moelino³

¹Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan, ²CERAD/University of Yaounde 2, Cameroon, ³CIFOR, Indonesia,

4.4. Honour the heritage – Historical commons as binding legacies

Chair: Daniel Schläppi

University of Bern, Switzerland

4.5. Rebuilding the commons instead of selling them. How research can help restore landscapes through understanding of the colonial legacy and the critique of the neo-colonial development complex

Co-Chairs: Tobias Haller and Samuel Weissman

University of Berne, Switzerland

4.6. Lessons from the past: Organizations, Challenges, and Resilience in a historical perspective and the question of the sources

Chair: Rahel Wunderli¹ and Karina Liechti²

¹Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland, ²Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland

4.8. Time, commoning, colonial legacies & strategies for recovery

Co-Chairs: Sophie Jerram¹ and JC Niala²

¹University of Auckland, New Zealand, ²University of Exeter, UK

4.9. Notions and practices of community and commons in Latin America from colonial times to the present

Chair: Christian Büschges

University of Bern, Switzerland

4.10. Reclaiming commons under or against international investment law? Crossing perspectives from outside, within, and along environment related international arbitration

Co-Chairs: Mathieu Bolay and Paule Pastré

Social Anthropology Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

4.11. Clear as mud: the blurred influence of history on contemporary governance of natural resources in southern Africa

Chair: Witness Kozanayi

Seed and Knowledge Initiative, Zimbabwe

5. Modelling and multi-methods approaches in polycentric commons systems

5.1. Computational Social Science and the study of the commons

Co-Chairs: Fijnanda van Klingeren¹ and Amineh Ghorbani²

¹Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ²Department of Multi-actor Systems, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

5.2. The role of information in constructing collaborative approaches for commons governance

Co-Chairs: Tom Koontz¹, John Powell², and Kiran Singh³

¹University of Washington Tacoma, USA, ²University of Gloucestershire, UK, ³Foundation for Ecological Security, India

5.3. Leveraging computational methods to decode institutions -- implementing computer science methods to study commons.

Co-Chairs: Christopher Frantz¹ and Bartosz Pieliński²

¹Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, ²University of Warsaw, Poland

5.4. Experimental studies of inequality and inequity in the governance of common-pool resources and local public goods

Co-Chairs: Nathan Cook^1,2 and Tara Grillos²

¹Indiana University, USA, ²Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA

5.5. Different perceptions on commons theory and modelling

Chair: Etienne Delay

CIRAD, France

5.6. Combi-Panel: Migration and Education

Chair: Antony Osome

East Africa University Rwanda in Kigali, Rwanda

6. The drama of the grabbed commons

6.1. Infrastructures of inequality in the transformation of forest commons for large-scale commodity production

Co-Chairs: Maria Brockhaus¹, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq², and Grace Wong²

¹University of Helsinki, Finland, ²Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan

6.3. Shrinking Land Commons: Processes of Land Alienation and Reconfiguration in Rural Africa

Co-Chairs: Laura German¹ and Howard Stein²

¹University of Georgia, USA, ²University of Michigan, USA

6.4. Grabbing Coastal and Marine Commons

Co-Chairs: Andreas Neef¹ and Achim Schlüter^2,3

¹University of Auckland, New Zealand, ²Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT), Germany, ³Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

6.5. Grabbing the Freshwater Commons: Mechanisms, Discourses, Resistance

Co-Chairs: Andreas Neef¹ and Achim Schlüter^2,3

¹University of Auckland, New Zealand, ²Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Germany, ³Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

6.6. Impact of Commons Grabbing on Long-Standing Food Coping Strategies – Local Responses and Agency

Co-Chairs: Selina Felber and Désirée Gmür

Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland

6.7. Energy in Common? Challenges and Reactions to Energy Infrastructure Projects

Co-Chairs: Sean Field, Jessica Hogan, and Lorenzo Sapochetti

University of St Andrews, UK

6.8. Community-based collective action and sustainable development around infrastructure mega-projects

Co-Chairs: Kaspar Hurni, Norman Kearney, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, and Christoph Oberlack

University of Bern, Switzerland

6.9. What about revitalising African knowledge commons for/through education?

Chair: Barbara Class¹ and Co-Chair: Fabio Balli²

¹University of Geneva, Switzerland, ²Université Concordia, Canada

6.10. The Drama of Crude Oil and the Commons

Co-Chairs: Willice O. Abuya¹ and Elisabeth Schubiger²

¹Dept of Sociology and Psychology, Moi Univesity, Kenya, ²Dept Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

6.11. Green-grabbing and dispossession of pastoralists’ livelihoods: does commodification of natural assets hold the answer to sustainable food security and nutrition?

Co-Chairs: Boniface Kiteme ^1,2, Emily Mutea¹, and Veronica Mwangi²

¹Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), Nanyuki-Kenya, ²Department of Geography, Environmental and Population Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya

6.12. Managing the commons in a highly dynamic highland-lowland system: Why harmony in institutional arrangements for water Governance across scale matter

Co-Chairs: Boniface Kiteme, John Mwangi, and Emma Odera

Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), Nanyuki-Kenya

6.13. Authoritarian development and commons grabbing in Indonesia

Co-Chairs: Heinzpeter Znoj¹ and Yudi Bakhrioktora²

¹Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland, ²Department of History, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia

6.14. Renewable Resource Energy Projects and the Drama of the Grabbed Commons

Chair: Tobias Haller

Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland

7. Global health commons between pandemics and glocal health

7.1. Towards a game theory of integrated approaches to health

Chair: Jakob Zinsstag

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland

7.2. Open Source Hardware in the medical field

Co-Chairs: Fabio Balli¹ and Pascal Carpentier²

¹Geneva University,Switzerland , ²Erasmus University, Netherlands

7.3. The commons of ‘wild’ edible and medicinal plants under threat

Chairs: Sonja Merten and Babatunde Owolodun

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland

7.4. Public health services as a common good in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals

Co-Chairs: Stephen Okumu Ombere and Erick Otieno Nyambedha

Maseno University, Kenya

8. Opportunities and challenges of digital commons

8.1. Commoning our Education: Possibilities and Pathways towards an Education for All

Chair: Nele Van Doninck

KU Leuven, Belgium

8.2. World Librarians: A Knowledge Commons supporting offline rural, offline schools in Malawi and Kenya

Chair: Charles Schweik

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

8.3. Re-imagining Digital Commons – Making Commons Visible and Accessible

Chair: Subrata Singh

Foundation for Ecological Security, India

8.5. Digital Commons and Social Movements: Understandings from the feminism

Chair: Esther Bravo-Govea

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

8.6. Transitioning resource systems from benevolent dictatorship to community management

Co-Chairs: Christina Bowen¹ and Seth Frey²

¹Socialroots.io, USA, ²University of California Davis, USA

8.7. New approaches to commons governance from the blockchain ecosystem

Co-Chairs: Seth Frey¹ and Andy Tudhope²

¹University of California Davis, USA, ²Independent scholar and practitioner, South Africa

8.8. New digital tools and data sciences for managing the commons

Chair: Derek Kauneckis

ISeeChange, USA

9. Conservation, environmental justice and the commons

9.1. Climate and Land Use Changes in Murehwa District: Trends and Implications for Forests Ecosystems

Chair: Prosper Tonderai Mataruse

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

9.2. Conservation, Environmental Justice to Re-imagine the Commons in Africa

Co-Chairs: Alpha Ba¹ and Williams Daré²

¹ENSA Thies, Senegal, ²CIRAD UMR SENS, France

9.3. Reimagining ‘Commoning’ Processes in Biodiversity Governance

Chair: Michael Schoon

Arizona State University, USA

9.4. Towards the transformation of semi-arid commons and pastoralist livelihoods in a complex world of competing claims

Co-Chairs: Sheila Funnell¹, David Kimiti² and Julie Zähringer³

¹Wyss Academy for Nature, Kenya, ²Grevy’s Zebra Trust, Kenya, ³Wyss Academy for Nature, Switzerland

9.5. Contesting Human-wildlife interactions in the context of the commons

Co-Chairs: Lisa Alvarado¹, George Iordachescu², Jyothy Karat¹, Samuel Weissman¹, and Ariane Zangger¹

¹Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland, ²University of Sheffield, UK

9.6. Promise of Commons - Community stewardship and Carbon Markets

Chair: Subrat Singh

Foundation for Ecological Security, India

9.7. Common-ing regulatory institutions for Environmental Justice

Chair: Vidya Visvanathan

SAFAR- Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research, India

9.8. Adaptive Collaborative Management: From research to action for just and sustainable commons

Co-Chairs: Anne Larson¹ and Linda Yuliani²

¹CIFOR-ICRAF, USA, ²CIFOR-ICRAF, Indonesia

9.9. Transformative interventions to strengthen biodiversity commons

Chair: Ilkhom Soliev¹ with Co-Chairs: Alex Franklin² and Agnes Zolyomi²

¹Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, ²Coventry University, UK

9.10. Restoring commons: opportunities and threats for inclusive restoration from global agreements to local collective action

Co-Chairs: Ida Djenontin¹ and Forrest Fleischmann²

¹The Pennsylvania State University, USA, ²University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, USA

9.11. Commons in the face of 30x30: bottom up and top-down responses

Co-Chairs: Alex Ebang Mbélé¹, Graden Froese¹, and Gretchen Walters²

¹Nsombou Abalghe-Dzal Association (NADA), Gabon, ²University of Lausanne, Switzerland

9.12. Other effective area-based conservation measures and commons

Co-Chairs: Olivier Hymas¹ and Jennifer Kelleher²

¹Universitry of Lausanne, Switzerland, ²The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland

9.13. Exploring the potential of indigenous and community-led innovative governance schemes towards a more just conservation

Co-Chairs: Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel^1,2, Margaret Owuor² and Julie G. Zaehringer²

¹Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland, ²Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern, Switzerland

9.14. Inclusive Conservation, WWF experiences from the field

Co-Chairs: Cristina Eghenter¹, Cheryl Margoulis², and Lilian Marquez³

¹WWF, Netherlands, ²WWF, USA, ³WWF, Guatemala

9.15. Saving the Commons in the Mongolian Steppes: Environmental Hazards, Economic Disincentives, and Global Development Discourses

Chair: Peter Finke

Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland

9.16. Are the Benefits of Community Wildlife Conservancies Significant Enough to Compensate for the “Lost” Critical Pastoral Grazing Areas?

Co-Chair: Staline Kibet and Oliver Vivain Wasonga

Department of Land Resource Management & Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

9.17. Convivial Marine Conservation in, for or with a Convivial Blue Economy

Chair: Louis Carver

Lancaster University and TBA21 Academy, UK

10. Local institution building and radical futures for the commons

10.1. An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Institutions Governing and Managing the Social-Ecological Systems in Murehwa District, Zimbabwe

Chair: Prosper Tonderai Mataruse

University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

10.2. From vision to execution: Why do participation processes go wrong and under which conditions do they promote environmental justice in practice?

Co-Chairs: Annabelle Houdret and Mirja Schoderer

IDOS – German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Germany

10.3. Fisheries Co-management approaches: Theory, Practice and Applications

Chair: Andrea Mjuma

Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi

10.4. Understanding the contribution of commons institutions to decommodification and postgrowth

Co-Chairs: Deniz Ay¹, Jean-David Gerber¹, and Stephanie Moser²

¹Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland, ²Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland

10.5. Traditional irrigation as a way to address global challenges such as climate change, food security or threats to biodiversity?

Co-Chairs: Gibson Kiragu¹, Boniface Kiteme², Karina Liechti³, Caroline Ouko², and Theresa Tribaldos³

¹Member of the AfDB Roll of Experts- Methodology Panel for Adaptation Benefits Mechanism and the International Consultant (Policy Advisor- United Nations Capital Development Fund) for LoCAL Mechanism, ²Centre for Training and Integrated Research in ASAL Development (CETRAD), Kenya, ³Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland

10.6. Local institutions for global commons: redefining governance through conflict

Chair: Sara Lorenzini

University of Milan, Italy

10.7. Sustaining collaborative governance: how can collaborative governance be more effective and sustained over time?

Co-Chairs: Mafaniso Hara¹, Judith Kamoto², Friday Njaya³, and Fiona Nunan⁴

¹PLAAS, University of Western Cape, South Africa, ²Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi, ³Department of Fisheries, Malawi, ⁴University of Birmingham, UK

10.8. Crossed perspective of donors, NGOs and committed researchers on their conception and practices of common based approaches of territorial development

Chair: Aurélie Botta

CIRAD, UMR SENS, France

10.9. Collaborative Care in Commons Governance: Advancing Environmental Caretaking, Collaborative Management, and Sustainable Livelihoods

Co-Chairs: Mez Baker-Médard¹, Sibyl Diver², and Mehana Vaughan³

¹Environmental Studies Program, Middlebury College, USA, ²Earth Systems Program, Environmental Justice Working Group, Stanford University, USA, ³University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources, UH Sea Grant College Program & Hui ʻĀina Momona, USA

10.10. Institutions and Power Relations in Urban and Peri-Urban Commons Management

Chair: Augustine Fosu

University of Bern, Switzerland

10.11. The Water Commons We Want: Local Action for a Better Future

Co-Chairs: Dona Geagea¹, Gina Gilson², and Radhika Singh³

¹Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²University of Oxford, UK, ³University of Nairobi, Kenya

10.12. From the governance of the commons to a wider commons-inspired governance: obstacles and institutional changes inside the State and the Market

Co-Chairs: Margherita D’Andrea¹ and Giuseppe Micciarelli²

¹University Of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy, ²University of Salerno/DISPC, Italy

10.13. What to (re)produce? Local institutions and their (transformative) roles within social (re)-production systems

Co-Chairs: Verena Hackmann, Grace Mudombi-Rusinamhodzi, and Prathiwi Putri

University of Kassel, Germany

10.14. How Does Institutional Empowerment Affect Public Participation in Water Governance

Chair: Yifei Ma

Northwest A&F University, China, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

10.15. Incubating Global-to-Local Commons

Co-Chairs: Sarah Hutton^1,2 and Charles Schweik^2,3

¹Internet of Production Alliance, ²University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, ³IASC Council

10.16. The Open Source Hardware Commons: Exploring the environmental and socioeconomic benefits of OSH and the Right-to-Repair movement

Co-Chairs: Sarah Hutton^1,2 and Max Wardeh^3,4

¹Internet of Production Alliance, USA, ²University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, ³Open Knowledge Connective, UK, ⁴Internet of Production Alliance, UK

10.17. Crafting futures in irrigation commons

Co-Chairs: Bryan Bruns¹ and Anahí Ocampo Melgar²

¹Independent Researcher and Consultant, US, ²Universidad de Chile, Chile

10.18. Strategic alliances in entanglements of commons and non-commons

Co-Chairs: Andreas Streinzer and Jelena Tosic

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

10.19. Reconstituting institutions and norms for forest commons in contexts of multiple transitions

Co-Chairs: Francis E. Bisong¹ and Chinwe Ifejika Speranza²

¹Department of Geography & Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Calabar, Nigeria, ²Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

10.20. Diverse Perspectives on Forestry Commons in a ´Glocal´ World

Chair: Catherine Tucker

Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, USA

11. Advances in Frameworks and Theory

11.2. Long-term evolution and institutional change in sustainable polycentric governance: connecting theory and normative conditions with empirical analysis

Co-Chairs: Elizabeth Baldwin¹, Michael McGinnis², Mark Stephan³, and Andreas Thiel⁴

¹University of Arizona, USA, ²Indiana University, USA, ³Washington State University, USA, ⁴University of Kassel, Germany

11.3. Conceptualizing Commons and the Community Economy for Economists

Co-Chairs: Tine de Moor and Irene van Staveren

Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

11.4. Which political constellations are conducive to commons formation?

Chair: Maïka De Keyzer

KU Leuven, Belgium

11.5. Seeing commons as a process: The Commonisation-decommonisation perspective

Chair: Prateep Nayak

University of Waterloo, Canada

11.6. Value chain coordination and dialogue for sustainable agri-food systems transformation: novel institutional approaches unlocking cooperative potential

Co-Chairs: Jos Bijman¹, Véronique De Herde², and Aicha Mechri³

¹Business Management & Organisation (BMO) Group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands, ²Rotterdam School of Management – Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ³Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

11.7. Towards standardizing case studies in commons scholarship: a collective deliberation

Co-Chairs: Maria Gerullis¹ and Hita Unnikrishnan²

¹Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA, ²Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield, UK

11.8. Harnessing the Institutional Grammar to investigate collective action dilemmas in the commons

Co-Chairs: Ute Brady¹ and Saba Siddiki²

¹Syracuse University, USA, ²Arizona State University, USA

11.9. Boundary objects for moving beyond panaceas: Engaging with diverse perspectives influencing social ecological systems research

Co-Chairs: Dustin Garrick¹ and Hita Unnikrishnan²

¹School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Canada, ²Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield, UK

11.10. Exploring the Philanthropy Commons

Co-Chairs: Brenda Bushouse¹, Robert Christensen², and Brent Never³

¹University of Massachusetts, USA, ²Brigham Young University, USA, ³University of Missouri Kansas City, USA

11.11. The Vulnerability To Viability Approach: Understanding the processes of building strong small-scale fishery commons

Co-Chairs: Derek Armitage and Prateep Nayak

University of Waterloo, Canada