News and Events Archive
- Elinor Ostrom. 2009. “A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems.” Science 325(5939) (July 24): 419–22. IU News Release.
- Elinor Ostrom wins Reimar Lüst Award.
- Resilience Centre releases Whiteboard Seminars
- Workshop on the Workshop (WOW 4) conference, held at Indiana University, Bloomington, June 3-6, 2009.
- A conference sponsored by the Gruter Institute was hosted by the Workshop on April 30–May 3, 2009.
- Amos Sawyer monitors Ghana elections (April 30, 2009).
- Ostrom speaks at AAAS 2009 annual meeting (February 15, 2009).
- Xavier Basurto's work was reported on in the New York Times (see Guest Column: Fish Shares and Sharing Fish by Aaron E. Hirsh, February 3, 2009).
- Conference on "Building Sustainable Democracies," Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 29-31, 2009.
- The International Journal of the Commons (IJC) is a new peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary open-access online journal set up by the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). Free registration!
PAST EVENTS
- The first Karl F. Schuessler Lecture in Social Science Research was given by Elinor Ostrom, "Sustaining Social-Ecological Systems," at Indiana University, November 6, 2008.
- Elinor Ostrom was awarded the 2008 William H. Riker Prize in Political Science on May 9, 2008, at the University of Rochester.
- The Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University marked its official launch on January 16, 2008.
- Elinor Ostrom and Brian Walker gave parallel seminars at the inauguration of the Stockholm Resilience Centre on May 30, 2007.
- Elinor Ostrom received an Honorary Doctorate in Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus from Uppsala University, Sweden, on May 26, 2007. See also "Linnaeus' birth tercentenary leads to honorary degree conferral in Sweden," by Jayne Spencer, Indiana University Home Pages, July 27, 2007.
- Elinor Ostrom and Harini Nagendra have been awarded the Cozzarelli Prize from the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) for their December 2006 article “Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Laboratory.” The Cozzarelli Prize recognizes recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality. This year's awards will be presented at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 29, 2007, in Washington, D.C.
- Elinor Ostrom's book, Understanding Institutional Diversity, was awarded the APSA William Riker Prize for the best book in political economy published in 2005. See announcement in: The Political Economist 13(2) (Spring/Summer 2006): pp. 20-22.
- "Vincent Ostrom: The Quest to Understand Human Affairs" (conference in honor of Vincent Ostrom's work and life), held at Indiana University, Bloomington, May 31-June 3, 2006. Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~voconf
- Working Conference on "Designing Constitutional Arrangements for Democratic Governance in Africa: Challenges and Possibilities," cosponsored by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, African Studies Program, and Office of International Programs, March 30-31, 2006 (prospectus, agenda, abstracts and papers)
- Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2006. A special issue on institutions and ecosystems derived from papers presented at the Workshop on the Workshop 3 (WOW3) conference held at Indiana University, June 2-6, 2004. Introduction by Marco Janssen. Contributors: John Anderies, Esther Mwangi, Theo Toonen, Gerrit Dijkstra, Frits van der Meer, Wai Fung Lam, Ganesh Shivakoti, and Ram Bastakoti.
- "Polycentric Political Economy: A Festschrift for Elinor and Vincent Ostrom." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 57(2) (June 2005 special issue).
- "The Struggle to Govern the Commons," Science (12/12/03) (by Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul Stern). This article received the 2005 Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.
- Festschrift for Elinor Ostrom, November 22-23, 2005 (agenda) (abstracts and papers)
- Conference on "Problems of Polycentric Governance in the Growing EU," Berlin, Germany, June 15-18, 2005
- Conference "Celebrating the Bicentenary of Tocqueville's Birth (1805-2005)," April 8, 2005
