February 27, 2013
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012)
Curriculum Vitae
Address
The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop
in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Indiana University
513 North Park Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47408–3895
Tel: 812–855–0441
Education
B.A. (with honors), Political Science, UCLA, 1954
M.A., Political Science, UCLA, 1962
Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA, 1965
Dissertation: “Public Entrepreneurship: A Case Study in Ground Water Basin Management.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1965.
Present Positions
Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington
Senior Research Director, Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, Tempe
Professor (part-time), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington
Other Positions Held
Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, 1973–2009
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University, 1996–2006
Chair, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1980–84; Acting Chair, 1989–90
Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, 1974–91
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana
University, 1969–74
Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Government, Indiana University, 1966–69
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government,
Indiana University, 1965–66
Personnel Analyst III, University of California, Los Angeles, 1957–61
Employment Interviewer and Assistant Employee Relations Manager, Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., Boston, MA, 1955–57
Awards and Honors
Honorary Doctorate, TERI University, New Delhi, India, 2012
Honorary Doctorate, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, 2011
Foreign Member, Académie d’Agriculture de France, Paris, France, 2011
Honorary Professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2011
Adam Smith Award, Association of Private Enterprise Education, Nassau, Bahamas, 2011
UCLA Medal, University of California, Los Angeles, 2011
Diamond Jubilee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies, Political Studies Association of the UK, 2010
Honorary Doctorate, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 2010
Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
Herman B. Wells Visionary Award, Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, IN, 2010
Honorary Member, Indiana Academy of Science, Indianapolis, IN, 2010
Honorary Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010
Living Legend Award, Office of Women’s Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2010
Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, APSA, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section, 2009
Honorary Doctorate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2008
Galbraith Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2008
Honorary Doctorate, McGill University, Montreal, 2008
William H. Riker Prize in Political Science, University of
Rochester, 2008
Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science,
Philadelphia, 2008
Beijer Fellow, The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
Honorary Doctorate, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Honorary Doctorate in Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus,
Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007
Cozzarelli Prize, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006
APSA, Political Economy Section, William Riker Award for Best Book on Political Economy, APSA,
Political Economy Section, 2006
Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
2006
Member, American Philosophical Society, Elected 2006
James Madison Award, American Political Science Association, 2005
Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America,
2005
Honorary Doctorate, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden,
2005
John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 2004
Lifetime Achievement Award, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 2003
Honorary Doctorate, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 2002
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Elected September 2001
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Elected May 2001
Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award for Governing the Commons, APSA,
Public Policy Section, 2000
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, Uppsala University, 1999
Honorary Doctorate in Economics, University of Zurich, 1999
Thomas R. Dye Service Award for outstanding service to the
Policy Studies Organization, 1997
Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy,
1997
Miriam Mills Award for being an outstanding woman in the field
of policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1996
Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for excellence in the field of international environmental affairs for Governing the
Commons, International Studies Association, 1992
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
Donald Campbell Award for an outstanding methodological
innovator in public policy studies, Policy Studies Organization, 1986
Professional Association Activities
American Political Science Association:
President,
1996–97
Vice President, 1975–76
Chairperson:
Program Committee, 1978
Developers Task Force, Educational Materials Development Committee,
1976–79
Committee on Departmental Services, 1981–84
Nominations Committee, 1983–84; 1990–92
Research Committee 1985–88
Member:
Program Committee for 1970 meetings
Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee, 1973
Program Development Committee, 1975–76
Nominations Committee, 1982–84, 1999–2001
Committee on Professional Careers and Standards, Women's Caucus for
Political Science, 1984–.
Council of APSA Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations,
1985–87
Urban Politics and Urban Policy Section Executive Committee, 1987–89
Advisory Committee for APSA/Pi Sigma Alpha Oral History Program, 1987–90
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Committee, 1990–91
Committee to select a new executive director, 2001–02
Committee on Civic Education, 2004–07
Political Economy Section: Chair, 2004–06
International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP):
President, 1990–91; Program Co-Chair for Eighth Biennial Conference (May
31–June 4, 2000)
Midwest Political Science Association:
President, 1984–85
Policy Studies Organization:
Nominating Committee, 1986–87
Public Choice Society:
President, 1982–84; Executive Council, 1982–; Co-Chair, Duncan Black Award
Committee, 1986–87; Chair, Duncan Black Award Committee, 1990
Advisory Board/Committee Memberships
Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Advisory Committee, 2010–11
Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Scientific Advisory Board, 2000–10
Resilience Alliance, Board of Science, 2000–.
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Board of Directors, May 15, 2007–.
MacArthur Foundation, Senior Advisory Group on “Advancing
Conservation in a Social Context,” 2006
Romanian Center for Institutional Analysis and Development, Academic Advisory Council, 2006–.
University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and
Environment, External Advisory Committee for Strategic Assessment, 2005–07
FAO/RLC, Scientific Committee of the Regional Development
Project, 2005–06
LTER, National Advisory Board, 2005–07
Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI), Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, January 1, 2003–December 31, 2004
Division Committee for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE),
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, The National
Academies, January 1, 2003–December 31, 2004
Institute of Mathematical Economics, University of Bielefeld,
Germany, Board of Advisors, October 1, 2002–September 30, 2006
International Human Dimensions of Global Change Programme,
Scientific Committee, 2000–05
Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods,
Scientific Advisory Board, 2000–09
National Research Council, Committee on Grand Challenges in
Environmental Sciences, November 30, 1998–April 30, 2000
The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics,
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Board of Directors, 1997–2001
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human Dimensions of
Global Change, 1997–2000
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council,
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), 1995–98
MacArthur Foundation Advisory Committee, Economics and Policy
Initiative, 1995–96
Institute for Policy Reform, Advisory Board, 1993–96
U.S. Agency for International Development, Research Advisory Committee, 1989–91
U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Local Government
Research Advisory Board, 1985–88
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Committee on National
Urban Policy, 1985–88
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Panel on Common Property
Resource Management, 1985–86
National Science Foundation, Panel on Institutional
Development, 1985
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research Council, 1983–85
National Science Foundation, Political Science Panel, 1983–84
National Science Foundation, Advisory Panel for Division of Policy Research and
Analysis, 1977–78
National Sheriffs’ Association: Study of Contract Law Enforcement, 1975–76
National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, Task Force
on Criminal Justice Research and Development, 1975–76
National Academy of Public Administration: Neighborhood-Oriented Metropolitan
Government, National Advisory Panel, 1975–76
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA): National Evaluation Program,
Advisory Board, 1975–76
International Association of Chiefs of Police: Police Discipline Project, Board
of Consultants, 1974–75
Consulting and Overseas Activities
Multiple visits to Norway and Sweden.
Extensive field
research experience in Nepal, Nigeria, and Kenya and research visits to
Australia, Bolivia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, and
Zimbabwe
Decentralization: Finance and Management Project Team Member, Nepal, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Nigeria, 1988–91
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld,
Germany, January–August 1981; January–August 1988
IU/Warsaw Exchange Program, Warsaw, Poland, May 1986; May 1987
Consultant to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S.
Congress, on “Low-Resource Agriculture and African Institutional
Development,” 1986
Consultant to AID, Evaluation of Egerton College, Kenya,
October 1984
Consultant to the State of California, Local Government Reform Task Force,
1973–74
Consultant on Institutional Analysis, Great Lakes Study Program, Battelle
Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, 1969–72
Past and Present Editorial Board Memberships
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
Behavioral Science and Policy
Criminal Justice Review
Development and Change
Ecological Economics
Ecology & Society
Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Politics
Journal of Institutional Economics
Journal of Political Science Education
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Policy Studies Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Public Productivity Review
Publius
Rationality, Markets and Morals
Quarterly Journal of Administration
Sage Urban Affairs Annual Review
Science
Social Science Quarterly
Urban Affairs Quarterly
World Development
Grants and Funded Research
Project Director, Principal Investigator, or Co-Principal Investigator for:
Earhart Foundation, Support for Visiting Scholars.
SANREM CRSP Long-Term Research, “Decentralization, Reforms, and Property Rights.”
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “Preserving the Commons through Sustainable Digital Arch.”
National Science Foundation, Planning Workshop to establish a Research Work Team
for a project on “Testing Theoretical Models of Individual Behavior in Dynamic Social Dilemma Situations.”
National Science Foundation, “Development of a Spatial-Experimental Laboratory
for Research and Policy Analysis Related to Complex Systems.”
National Science Foundation, “Biocomplexity in Linked Bioecological-Human
Systems: Agent-Based Models of Land Use Decisions and Emergent Land Use Patterns in Forested Regions.”
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, “A Study of How Aid,
Incentives, and Sustainability Are Related.”
United Nations Development Program, “A Proposal to Monitor and Assess the Parks
and People Project in the Nepal Terai.”
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, “Democracy Fellows Program.”
MacArthur Foundation, “The International Forestry Resources and Institutions
Research and Training Program in Madagascar and the Eastern Himalayas.”
National Science Foundation, “A Proposal to Support a Center for the Study of
Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change.”
Ford Foundation, “The International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research
and Training Program.”
National Science Foundation, “The Commons: Institutions, Heterogeneities, Time
Dependencies, and Local/Global Nesting.”
National Science Foundation, “A Conference on Institutional Dimensions of
Cooperation and Discord: Local and Global Cooperation.”
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Forests, Trees and People Programme,
“Collaboration on Communal Management: The International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Database.”
Alexander Von Humboldt-Stiftung Transcoop Program, “Game Theory in the Behavioral Sciences.”
Ford Foundation, “Nepal Irrigation Institutions and Systems Database.”
National Science Foundation, “The Role of Institutions in the Survival and
Efficiency of Common-Pool Resources.”
U.S. AID, “Decentralization: Finance and Management.” Subcontract with
Associates in Rural Development and the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Syracuse University.
U.S. Geological Survey, “The Comparative Performance of Institutional
Arrangements for Groundwater Resources.”
National Science Foundation, “Towards an Institutional Theory of Collective Action.”
U.S. AID, “Institutions and Common-Pool Resources in the Third World: What Works?”
U.S. AID, “Research Training and Dissemination Program in Institutional Analysis and Design.”
National Science Foundation, “Modeling Institutional Arrangements and Their Effects.”
U.S. Department of Justice, “Performance Measurement Theory.”
U.S. Department of Justice, “Citizen Demand and Information Exchange in Initial
Police Response: Calls for Service Processing from Receipt Through Dispatch.”
National Science Foundation, “Urban Resources, Institutions and Outcomes.”
National Institute of Mental Health, “Research Training in Institutional
Analysis and Design.”
U.S. Department of Justice (LEAA), “Performance Measurement Theory: Police.”
U.S. Department of Justice (LEAA), “Police Referral Systems in Metropolitan Areas.”
National Science Foundation, “Evaluating the Organization of Service Delivery:
Police,” Phase I, IIa, IIb.
National Science Foundation, “Measures of Municipal Services: Multi-Mode Approaches.”
National Institute of Mental Health, “Community Organization and Urban Institutions.”
Publications
Books:
The Drama of the Commons, edited with Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolšak, Paul C. Stern,
Susan Stonich, and Elke Weber. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global
Change (Washington, DC: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 2002).
Improving Irrigation Governance and Management in Nepal, edited with Ganesh
Shivakoti (Oakland, CA: ICS Press, 2002).
From Farmers’ Fields to Data Fields and Back: A Synthesis of Participatory Information Systems for
Irrigation and Other Resources,
edited with Sowerwine, Jennifer, Ganesh Shivakoti, Ujjwal Pradhan, and
Ashutosh Shukla. Proceedings of an International Workshop held at the
Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Rampur, Nepal,
March 21–26, 1993. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Irrigation
Management Institute (IIMI), and Rampur, Nepal: IAAS, 1994.
Crafting Institutions for Self-Governing Irrigation Systems (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1992).
Local Government in the United States, with Vincent Ostrom and Robert Bish (San
Francisco: ICS Press, 1988).
Il governo locale negli Stati Uniti, with Vincent Ostrom and Robert L. Bish
(Milano, Italy: Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, 1984).
Strategies of Political Inquiry, edited (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1982).
Basic Issues in Police Performance, with Gordon P. Whitaker, Stephen Mastrofski,
Roger B. Parks, and Stephen L. Percy (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1982).
Patterns of Metropolitan Policing, with Roger B. Parks and Gordon P. Whitaker
(Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Books, 1978).
Policing Metropolitan America, with Roger B. Parks and Gordon P. Whitaker
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977).
The Delivery of Urban Services: Outcomes of Change, ed. Urban Affairs Annual
Reviews, vol. 10 (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1976).
Community Organization and the Provision of Police Services, with William Baugh,
Richard Guarasci, Roger B. Parks, and Gordon P. Whitaker. Sage Professional
Papers in Administrative and Policy Studies, 03–001 (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1973).
Selected Journal Articles and Chapters in Books:
“Commons, Institutional Diversity of.” In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, vol. 2, edited by Simon A. Levin, 155–66. Waltham, MA: Academic Press, 2013.
“Polycentric Systems: Multilevel Governance Involving a Diversity of Organizations.” In Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms, edited by Eric Brousseau, Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Pierre-André Jouvet, and Marc Willinger, 105–25. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future” (with Ruth DeFries, Erle Ellis, F. Stuart Chapin III, Pamela Matson, B. L. Turner II, Arun Agrawal, Paul Crutzen, Chris Field, Peter Gleick, Peter Kareiva, Eric Lambin, Diana Liverman, Pedro Sanchez, and James Syvitski). Bioscience 62(6) (June 2012): 603–606.
“Managing Forest Commons in Africa” (with Lauren Persha, Ashwini Chhatre, and Arun Agrawal). In The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa, ed. Ernest Aryeetey, Shantayanan Devarajan, Ravi Kanbur, and Louis Kasekende, 402–409. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources” (with Daniel Cole). In Property in Land and Other Resources, 37–64. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012.
“The Institutional Perspective on Values and Virtues” (with Vincent Ostrom). In Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective, eds. Michiel De Vries and Pan Suk Kim, 115–34. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
“Reconnecting to the Biosphere” (with Carl Folke et al.). Ambio 40(7): 719–38. Special issue of the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability held in Stockholm, Sweden, May 2011.
“A Multimethod Approach to Study the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems” (with Marco Janssen and François Bousquet). Natures Sciences Sociétés (June 2011): 4–16.
“Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory” (with Eric Coleman). In Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, ed. James Druckman, Donald Green, James Kuklinski, and Arthur Lupia, 339–52. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Editorial.” Sustainable Hyderabad Project Newsletter 03/04 (Winter 2010/11).
“Askö 1994: Commentary by Elinor Ostrom.” In Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together: The Askö Meetings and Papers, ed. Tore Söderqvist, Anna Sundbaum, Carl Folke, and Karl-Göran Mäler, 57–58. New York: Springer, 2011.
“Governing the Commons in the New Millennium: A Diversity of Institutions for Natural Resource Management” (with Harini Nagendra). In Re-Inventing Construction, ed. Ilka and Andreas Ruby, 380–87. Berlin, Germany: Ruby Press, 2010.
“Private and Common Property Rights” (with Charlotte Hess). In Property Law and Economics, Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, 2nd edition, ed. Boudewijn Bouckaert, 53–106. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.
“Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Analysis of Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana” (with Forrest Fleischman, Kinga Boenning, Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, Sarah Mincey, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Katrin Daedlow, Maria Claudia Lopez, Xavier Basurto, and Burney Fischer). Ecology and Society 15(4) (2010): 9. [online]
“The Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open-Access Resources into Managed Resources.” In Is Economic Growth Sustainable?, ed. Geoffrey Heal, 168–205. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” In Les Prix Nobel 2009, The Nobel Foundation, 401–44. Västerås, Sweden: Edita Västra Aros, 2010.
“Be Diverse” (with Harini Nagendra). Our Planet, the magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (May 2010): 10–12.
“Trust and Reciprocity as Foundations for Cooperation” (with James Walker). In Whom Can We Trust?: How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible, ed. Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin, 91–124. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.
“Social Cooperation in Collective-Action Situations.” In Beiträge der genossenschaftlichen Selbsthilfe zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklung [Contributions of cooperative self-help to economic and social development], ed. Hans Jürgen Rösner and Frank Schulz-Nieswandt, 49–69. Berlin: LIT Verlag.
“The Contribution of Community Institutions to Environmental Problem-Solving.” In Governing the Environment: Salient Institutional Issues, ed. Albert Breton, Giorgio Brosio, Silvana Dalmazzone, and Giovanna Garrone, 87–112. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009.
“Governance and Institutions.” In The Princeton Guide to Ecology, ed. Simon A. Levin, 748–53. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
“Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas: Taking Small Steps to Test an Evolving Theory of Collective Action.” In Games, Groups, and the Global Good, ed. Simon Levin, 207–28. New York: Springer, 2009.
“Polycentric Systems as One Approach to Solving Collective-Action Problems.” In Climate Change and Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty Reduction, ed. Mohamed Salih, 17–35. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009.
“Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned?” In Property Rights and Land Policies, ed. Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong, 25–51. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009.
“The Meaning of Social Capital and Its Link to Collective Action” (with T. K. Ahn). In Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics, ed. Gert T. Svendsen and Gunnar L. Svendsen, 17–35. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009.
“Trust in Private and Common Property Experiments” (with James Cox, James Walker, Antonio Jamie Castillo, Eric Coleman, Robert Holahan, Michael Schoon, and Brian Steed). Southern Economic Journal 75(4) (April 2009): 957–75.
“Commons.” In The Oxford Companion to Global Change, ed. David Cuff and Andrew Goudie. Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference Online.
“What is Social Capital?” In Social Capital: Reaching Out, Reaching In, ed. Viva Bartkus and James Davis, 17–38. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2009.
“Engaging with Impossibilities and Possibilities.” In Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, 522–41. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
“A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand” (with Esther Mwangi). In Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment—Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn, ed. Volker Beckmann and Martina Padmanabhan, 195–221. New York: Springer, 2009.
“Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change.” In Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and Impact,
ed. Sandra Batie and Nicholas Mercuro, 48–76. New York: Routledge, 2008.
“Diversity and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems” (with Jon Norberg, James Wilson, and Brian Walker). In Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future,
ed. Jon Norberg and Graeme Cumming. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
“Tragedy of the Ecological Commons.” In Encyclopedia of Ecology, 1st edition, ed. Sven Erik Jorgensen and Brian D. Fath, 3573–76. Oxford: Elsevier, 2008.
“The Challenge of Common-Pool Resources.” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 50(4) (July/August 2008): 8–20.
“Facilitating
Decentralized Policies for Sustainable Governance and Management of
Forest Resources in Asia” (with Ganesh Shivakoti). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities:
Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 292–310. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Implications of Leasehold and Community Forestry for Poverty Alleviation” (with Mukunda Karmacharya and Birendra Karna). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities:
Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 177–208. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Decentralization and Community-Based Forestry: Learning from Experience” (with Arun Agrawal). In Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities:
Policy Outcomes in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Edward Webb and Ganesh Shivakoti, 44–67. New Delhi: Sage, 2008.
“Social Capital and Collective Action” (with T. K. Ahn). In The Handbook of Social Capital, ed. Dario Castiglione, Jan van Deth, and Guglielmo Wolleb, 70–100.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Tragedy of the Commons.” In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., ed. Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
“The Vital Role of Norms and Rules in Maintaining Open Public and Private Economies” (with David Schwab). In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, ed.
Paul J. Zak, 204–227. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
“Coupled Human
and Natural Systems” (with Jianguo Liu, Thomas Dietz, Stephen Carpenter, Carl Folke, Marina Alberti, Charles Redman, Stephen Schneider, et al.). Ambio 36(8)
(December 2007): 639–49.
“Institutions, Collective Action and Effective Forest Management: Learning from Studies in Nepal” (with Harini Nagendra). In The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society, ed. Jules
Pretty, et al., 578–89. London: Sage, 2007.
“Collective Action Theory.” In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, ed. Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, 186–208. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Going Beyond Panaceas” (with Marco Janssen and John Anderies). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(39) (2007): 15176–78.
“Tenure Alone is Not Sufficient: Monitoring is Essential” (with Harini Nagendra). Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 8(3) (2007): 175–99.
“Multiple Institutions for Multiple Outcomes.” In Sustainable Resource Use: Institutional Dynamics and Economics, ed. Alex Smajgl and Silva Larson, 23–50.
Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2007.
“Institutional Rational Choice: An Assessment of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework.”
In Theories of the Policy Process, 2nd ed., ed. Paul A. Sabatier, 21–64. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007.
“A Frequently Overlooked Precondition of
Democracy: Citizens Knowledgeable About and Engaged in Collective Action.” In Preconditions of Democracy,
The Tampere Club Series, vol. 2, ed. Geoffrey Brennan, 75–89. Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press, 2006.
“Adoption of a New Regulation for the Governance of Common-Pool Resources by
a Heterogeneous Population” (with Marco Janssen). In Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, ed. Jean-Marie Baland,
Pranab Bardhan, and Samuel Bowles, 60–96. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
“How Norms Help Reduce the Tragedy of the Commons: A Multi-Layer Framework for
Analyzing Field Experiments” (with Juan-Camilo Cardenas). In Norms and the Law, ed.
John N. Drobak, 105–36. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
“Multiple Institutions for Multiple Outcomes.” In Adapting Rules for Sustainable
Resource Use, ed. Alex Smajgl and Silva Larson, 29–57. Townsville, Australia: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, 2006.
“Governing Social-Ecological Systems” (with Marco Janssen). In Handbook of Computational
Economics: Agent-Based Computational Economics, vol. 2, ed. Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, 1465–509. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishers, 2006.
“The Struggle to Govern the Commons” (with Thomas Dietz and Paul Stern). In
Science Magazine’s State of the Planet 2006–2007, ed. Donald Kennedy, and the editors of Science, 126–41. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.
“The Complexity of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time.” In Evolution and Design of Institutions,
ed. Christian Schubert and Georg von Wangenheim, 100–22. New York: Routledge, 2006.
“Not Just One Best System: The Diversity of Institutions for Coping with the Commons.”
In Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Agricultural Development, ed.
Michael Cernea and Amir Kassam, 329–60. Cambridge, MA: CABI Publishing, 2006.
“What We Have Learned from Multiple Challenges to the Study of Political Science.” Perspectives on Politics 3(2) (June 2005): 321–22.
“The Aid Effectiveness Puzzle” (with Sujai Shivakumar, Krister Andersson, and Clark Gibson). In
The Constitution of Development: Crafting Capabilities for Self-Governance, ed. Sujai Shivakumar, 21–38. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
“Incentives Affecting Land Use Decisions of Nonindustrial
Private Forest Landowners” (with Abigail York and Marco Janssen). In Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, ed. Peter Dauvergne, 233–48.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005.
“Policies That Crowd Out Reciprocity and Collective Action.” In Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, ed.
Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, 253–75. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
“A Grammar of Institutions” (with Sue E.S. Crawford). In Understanding Institutional Diversity, ed. Elinor Ostrom, 137–74.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Originally published in:
American Political Science Review 89(3) (September 1995): 582–600.
“Doing Institutional Analysis: Digging Deeper Than Markets and Hierarchies.” In Handbook of New Institutional Economics,
ed. Claude Menard and Mary M. Shirley, 819–48. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2005.
“Understanding Collective Action.” In Collective Action and Property Rights for
Sustainable Development, ed. Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Monica Di Gregorio, Focus 11,
Brief 2, February. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004.
“The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time.” Working paper #0404,
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“Conditions of Legal and Political Feasibility” (with Vincent Ostrom). In Natural
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“Problems for Institutional Analysis of the Great Lakes Basin” (with Vincent Ostrom and Ira L. Whitman). In Proceedings: Thirteenth Conference on Great Lakes Research,
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“A Behavioral Approach to the Study of Intergovernmental Relations” (with Vincent Ostrom). The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 359
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Recent Presentations:
“Confronting Challenging Collective-Action Problems.” Keynote address presented at the International Workshop on “Informal Institutions and Intractable Global Problems,” Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 16, 2012.
“Some Background on the Evolution of Rules.” Presentation for the Workshop on “Rules as Genotypes in Cultural Evolution,” Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 12, 2012.
“Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons: Confronting Challenging Collective Action Problems.” Oxford Amnesty Lecture presented at the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, Oxford, UK, March 30, 2012.
“The Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation.” 21st Annual Hayek Memorial Lecture presented at the Institute of Economic Affairs, London, UK, March 29, 2012.
“Institutions and Their Impact on Forest Structure and Composition.” Paper presented at the panel on “Scaling Up Lessons from Studies of Local Forest Governance in Development Countries: The Implementation Challenge,” Global Change Open Science Conference on “Planet Under Pressure: New Knowledge Towards Solutions,” London, UK, March 28, 2012.
“Thinking About Climate Change as a Commons.” Keynote address presented at the UK Office of AAAS and Science ancillary event at the Planet Under Pressure Conference, London, UK, March 27, 2012.
“Thinking About Climate Change as a Commons.” Keynote address presented at the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business Conference on “China and Global Governance,” Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, March 23, 2012.
“Challenges for Achieving Conservation and Development.” Lecture presented via videoconference for Beloit College, Beloit, WI, March 21, 2012.
“Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons.” Public lecture presented for the American Studies Sustainability Project Spring 2012 Speaker Series on The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 1, 2012.
“Linking Frameworks, Theories and Models for Understanding Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at the SES Club Meeting, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, February 14, 2012.
“Challenges for Achieving Conservation and Development.” TN Khoshoo Memorial Lecture presented at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India, February 3, 2012.
“Thinking about Climate Change: What Can We All Do?” Keynote addressed presented at the 12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit on “Protecting the Global Commons: 20 Years Post Rio,” New Delhi, India, February 2, 2012.
“Constructing Common Property Regimes.” Keynote address presented for the “Festival of the Commons,” Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, October 7, 2011.
“Polycentric Institutions to Cope with Ecological and Social Diversity.” Lecture presented for the Hilldale Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, October 6, 2011.
“The Role of Culture in Solving Social Dilemmas.” Keynote lecture presented at the Convening Cultural Commons Workshop, NYU School of Law, New York, NY, September 23, 2011.
“Thinking About Climate Change as a Commons.” Philip Gamble Memorial Lecture presented at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 22, 2011.
“Protecting Institutional Diversity.” Lecture presented for the Illahee Lecture Series, Illahee: A Forum for Environmental Innovators, Portland, OR, August 31, 2011.
“Forestry Development and Institutions in an Era of Climate Change.” Inaugural lecture presented via videoconference for the IX National Forest Congress, Antigua, Guatemala, August 10, 2011.
“The Future of the Commons.” Video lecture presented for the Now Future Dialogues with Tomorrow 2011 Lecture Series, New Zealand, August 4, 2011.
“A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change.” Thor Heyerdahl International Speech presented at the Thor Heyerdahl International Day 2011, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway, June 27, 2011.
“Cooperating for the Common Good: Challenging Supposed Impossibilities and Panaceas.” Lecture presented at the Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway, June 25, 2011.
“Coping with Complexity.” Lecture presented at the Thor Heyerdahl Summer School in Environmental Governance, Norwegian University of Life Science, Ås, Norway, June 25, 2011.
“Reflections on Future Developments in Social-Ecological Systems.” Seminar presented at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE), Paris, France, June 23, 2011.
“Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France, June 22, 2011.
“Neither State Nor Market: Community Organization of Resources.” Lecture presented at Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, June 20, 2011.
“Cooperating for the Public Good: Self Governance, Polycentricity, and the Commons.” Keynote address presented via videoconference for the Association Federico Caffè Study Center and the National Association of the Italian Popular Banks’ Conference on “Governing the Commons,” Rome, Italy, June 13, 2011.
“What Have We Learned about Self-Organizing to Obtain Collective Goods?” Speech presented at the CWA Local 4730 Reception, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, June 10, 2011.
“Shared Ontologies for the Representation of Social-Ecological Systems from Local to Global Levels.” Keynote address presented via Skype for the European Science Foundation’s Conference on “Water Governance: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change,” Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria, June 8, 2011.
“Protecting Institutional Diversity.” Keynote address presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, June 2, 2011.
“Cooperating for the Public Good.” Lecture presented at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China, May 10, 2011.
“Diagnosing Social Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, May 9, 2011.
“Cooperating for the Public Good: Self-Governance, Polycentricity, and Development.” Lecture presented at the Conference on “Self-Governance, Polycentricity, and Development” at Renmin University of China, Beijing, China, May 8, 2011.
“A Social Ecological Approach to Sustainability.” Lecture presented at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 6, 2011.
“Rethinking Environmental Protection and Politics.” Centenary Distinguished Lecture presented at the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, May 3, 2011.
“Why Do We Need to Protect Institutional Diversity?” Stein Rokkan Lecture presented in St. Gallen, Switzerland, April 26, 2011. The Stein Rokkan Lecture title was “Protecting Institutional Diversity” and given on April 16, 2011.
“Offbeat Economics: Looking Back and Looking Forward.” Presentation for the “Offbeat Economics” Symposium in honor of Bruno Frey’s 70th Birthday, Zurich, Switzerland, April 13, 2011.
“Helping Make Bloomington Greener.” Speech given at Green Drinks Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, March 23, 2011.
“Thinking About the Future.” Plenary address given at the Second International Science and Policy Conference on “Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change,” Arizona State University, Tempe, March 15, 2011.
“A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change.” Keynote speech at the Economic Club of Phoenix’s Luncheon, Phoenix, AZ, March 15, 2011.
“Lecture 1: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Sustainability” and “Lecture 2: Analyzing 100-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles.” Synopses prepared January 1, 2011 for Stanford Tanner Lectures in Human Values presented at Stanford University, February 16–18, 2011.
“Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Environment.” Presentation at the IU Retirees’ Association monthly meeting in coordination with the Emeriti House, Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, February 9, 2011.
“Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems.” Keynote address presented at the IUCN CEESP Conference on “Sharing Power: A New Vision for Development,” Whakatane, New Zealand, January 15, 2011.
“Assessing Forest Change in Human Impacted Forests,” with Harini Nagendra. Paper presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Hyderabad, India, January 11, 2011.
“The Challenge of Self-Organizing to Govern Commons.” Bharat Ram Memorial Lecture, Delhi, India, January 5, 2011.
“The Challenges We Faced.” Commencement Address, Michigan State University, East Lansing, December 10, 2010.
“Institutional Robustness: How Institutional Arrangements Facilitate or Detract from Efforts to Sustain Ecological Systems.” Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, December 10, 2010.
“The Challenges We Faced.” Convocation Address, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal, December 8, 2010.
“The Challenge of Reforming Resource Governance.” Lecture presented at the SANDEE Board Meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal, December 7, 2010.
“The Potential Role of Communities in Sustaining Forest Resources.” Keynote address presented at the meeting of the Secretaries of the Government of Nepal on “Participatory Approach in Public Service Delivery,” Kathmandu, Nepal, December 6, 2010.
“The Evolution of Rules that Enhance Cooperation in Diverse Settings.” Presentation at the workshop on “Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity and Individuality,” Indiana University, Bloomington, December 3, 2010.
“What Can We All Do to Reduce the Threat of Climate Change?” Presentation at Sycamore Land Trust’s Community Actions Against Climate Change Forum, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 2, 2010.
“Transitions in the Management of the Swiss Common Property Meadows SES: How Governance Systems Adapt to Changing Boundary Conditions,” with Ivo Baur and Claudia Binder. Paper presented at the SES Club Meeting, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 1, 2010.
“Disentangle the Action Box: A Comparison of Frameworks for Representing Collective Action in Resource Governance and Management Contexts,” with Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Michael McGinnis. Paper presented at the SES Club Meeting, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University,Bloomington, November 30, 2010.
“Applying a Social-Ecological System Framework to the Study of the Taos Valley Irrigation System,” with Michael Cox. Paper presented at the SES Club Meeting, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 30, 2010.
“Collective Action and the Commons: Findings from the Field and the Lab.” Distinguished Guest Lecture, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 20, 2010.
“Diagnosing Social Ecological Systems.” Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminar, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, November 18, 2010.
“The Challenge of Self-Governance in Complex Contemporary Environments.” Burkett Miller Distinguished Lecture, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, November 17, 2010.
“Coping with Challenges.” Speech presented at the Colloquium for Women of Indiana University, Bloomington, November 12, 2010.
“Institutions and Sustainability of Ecological Systems.” Paper presented at the conference on “The Legacy and Work of Douglass C. North,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO, November 4–6, 2010.
“What Can We Do About Climate Change?” Keynote address presented at the 2010 Women in Technology Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 28, 2010.
“Unconventional Wisdom: Coping with Climate Change at Multiple Scales.” Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability, University of Maine, Orono, October 21, 2010.
“A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change.” Presentation for a faculty seminar at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 20, 2010.
“Institutional Robustness: How Institutional Arrangements Facilitate or Detract from Efforts to Sustain Ecological Systems.” Public lecture for the “Ecologies in the Balance” series at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 20, 2010.
“Why Climate Change is NOT Simply a Policy Issue at the International Level: What All Can We Do About It.” Keynote speech presented at the Big Ten Housing Officers Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 19, 2010.
“A Polycentric Approach to Climate Change.” Keynote speech presented at the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 29th Annual Meeting on “Towards Consilience: 30 Years of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences,” Indiana University, Bloomington, October 14, 2010.
“Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons.” Keynote speech presented at the Indiana Academy of Science’s Forum on Science and Society, Indianapolis, IN, October 9, 2010.
“The Old and the New Commons: Future Developments in Our Work.” Plenary address presented at the IASC North American Regional Meeting on “Capturing the Complexity of the Commons,” Arizona State University, Tempe, September 30, 2010.
“Studying Institutions.” Presentation for the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors Annual Dinner and Reception, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, September 27, 2010.
“Bosses and Kings: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common-Pool and Public Good Games,” with James C. Cox and James M. Walker. Paper presented at the Biennial Social Dilemmas Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX, September 23, 2010.
“Cooperating for the Common Good: Challenging Supposed Impossibilities and Panaceas.” Plenary lecture presented at the Biennial Social Dilemmas Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX, September 23, 2010.
“The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources: An Introduction,” with Daniel Cole. Paper presented at the conference on “Evolution of Property Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources,” Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, September 20–21, 2010.
“Cooperating for the Common Good: Challenging Supposed Impossibilities and Panaceas.” Presentation at the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, September 2, 2010.
“Addressing the Theory of Collective Action from a Multiple Methods Perspective.” Plenary address presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2, 2010.
“How Can We Monitor REDD Projects?” Keynote speech presented via videoconference for the Workshop on “Forest Governance, Decentralization and REDD in Latin America and the Caribbean,” held in Oaxaca, Mexico, August 31, 2010.
“The Potential Role of Communities in Sustaining Forest Resources.” Keynote speech delivered at the XXIII IUFRO World Congress, Seoul, South Korea, August 27, 2010.
“The Challenge of Forest Diagnostics,” with Harini Nagendra. Paper presented at the Sub-Plenary Session on “New Frontiers of Forest Economics” at the XXIII IUFRO World Congress on “Forests for the Future: Sustaining Society and the Environment,” Seoul, South Korea, August 27, 2010.
“Updating the Theory of Collective Action.” Lecture presented as part of the SeoNam Lecture Series at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, August 26, 2010.
“Institutional Robustness.” Lecture presented at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, August 25, 2010.
“Who Affects Climate Change?” Lecture presented at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, August 25, 2010.
“Climate Change and Global Governance.” Keynote speech presented at the “International Forum on the Global Solution for Climate Change,” Taipei, Taiwan, August 24, 2010.
“Institutions for Managing Groundwater.” Second speech presented at the “International Forum on the Global Solution for Climate Change,” Taipei, Taiwan, August 24, 2010.
“Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” Public lecture given at the National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, August 20, 2010.
“Urban Forests as Social-Ecological Systems.” Keynote lecture presented at the Indiana Urban Forest Council’s Conference on “Urban Forest Ecosystems: Policies and Practices,” Columbus, IN, July 1, 2010.
“Robust Property Rights Institutions to Manage Local and Global Commons.” Lecture presented at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany, June 23, 2010.
“A Polycentric Approach to Reducing the Threats of Climate Change.” Climate Lecture 2010 presented at the Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2010.
“Understanding Collective Action in Micro and Broader Contexts.” Keynote lecture presented at the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) Annual Meeting, Stirling, Scotland, June 19, 2010.
“What Can We Do About Climate Change?” Speech presented at the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, June 8, 2010.
“Current Efforts to Understand Social Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, June 3, 2010.
“Overcoming the Samaritan’s Dilemma in Development Aid.” Keynote address at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics on “Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World,” Stockholm, Sweden, May 31, 2010.
“IAD and SES Dynamic Flows: Introducing the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems (PIASES) Framework,” with Michael McGinnis. Preliminary draft of paper presented at the 13th Economics of Infrastructures Conference, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, May 27-28, 2010.
“Applying a Social-Ecological System Framework to the Study of the Taos Valley Irrigation System Over Time,” with Michael Cox. Paper presented at the 13th Economics of Infrastructures Conference, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, May 27, 2010.
Commencement Address at the Graduate Commencement Ceremony, Indiana University, Bloomington, May 7, 2010.
“The Challenge of Combining the Social with the Ecological.” Keynote address presented at the African Studies Center STEM-Africa Initiative Launch Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 6, 2010.
“Climate Change and Community Forests: Links between a Global and a Local Common Pool Resource.” Keynote lecture for the Workshop on “Community Forestry and Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): Lessons Learned from Mexico” presented at the World Bank, Washington, DC, April 26, 2010.
“Robust Property Rights Institutions to Manage Local and Global Commons.” Keynote lecture for the Annual World Bank Conference on “Land Policy and Administration” presented at the World Bank, Washington, DC, April 26, 2010.
“Understanding Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder, International Affairs Program, April 12, 2010.
“Institutional Analysis and Development Framework: Historical and Contemporary Developments.” Paper presented at the University of Colorado, Denver, School of Public Affairs, Policy Studies Journal Symposium, April 9, 2010.
“Understanding Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at Stanford University, Food/Environment Series, Woods Institute for the Environment and the Department of Economics, Stanford, CA, April 8, 2010.
“What Can We Do About Climate Change?” George S. Parthemos Lecture presented at the University of Georgia, Athens, March 19, 2010.
“Governing for Sustainable Water in Complex Environments.” Lecture presented at Lafayette College, Easton, PA, March 4, 2010.
“Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons.” Lecture presented at the Wednesday Lunchtime Speaker Series at Columbia University, New York, March 3, 2010.
“Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” Adapted Nobel Prize Lecture delivered at Indiana University, Bloomington, February 16, 2010.
“Why Polycentricity is Relevant for Today’s Problems.” Presentation to the Bloomington Rotary Club, Bloomington, IN, February 9, 2010.
“Future Directions in Social-Ecological Systems Research.” Lecture presented at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, December 14, 2009.
Plenary address given at Forest Day 3 in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 13, 2009.
“Future Directions in Social-Ecological Systems Research.” Lecture presented at the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), Stockholm, Sweden, December 9, 2009.
“Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems.” Nobel Prize Lecture in Economic Sciences presented at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 2009.
“Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Study the Effects of Diverse Institutions.” Keynote lecture given at GIS Day, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 18, 2009.
“The Evolution of Institutions.” Lecture given in the Darwin Today Series, Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands, November 5, 2009.
“Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned.” Lecture given at Cornell University, September 17, 2009.
“Analyzing Collective Action.” Plenary given at the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) Triennial Conference on “The New Landscape of Global Agriculture,” Beijing, China, August 16–22, 2009.
“Theory and Experiments Related to the Commons.” Keynote lecture at the ceremony awarding Reinhard Selten an honorary doctorate at the University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, July 9, 2009.
Wittgenstein Lectures on “Collective Action and the Commons,” University of Bayreuth, Germany, June 22–27, 2009.
“A Framework for Analyzing Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture given at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany, June 19, 2009.
“The Evolution of Institutions: Toward a New Methodology,” with Xavier Basurto. Paper presented at the workshop on “Do Institutions Evolve?” Robert Schumann Center, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May 8–9, 2009.
Keynote Speaker at the forum on “A Systems Approach to Socio-Ecological Resilience: Prioritizing the Gaps in a Changing World,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 23–24, 2009.
“A Multi-Level Approach for Coping with Climate Change.” Presentation for symposium on “Equity, Sustainability, and Governance of Mixed-Use Landscapes,” American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting on “Our Planet and Its Life: Origins and Futures,” Chicago, IL, February 15, 2009.
“Communicating Climate Change,” Episode 9: Elinor Ostrom (February 13, 2009). (http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/blogs/communicatingclimate/). Podcast conversations with social scientists, produced by Joe Cone, a long-time science communicator and award-winning writer and videographer who serves as assistant director of Oregon Sea Grant, a marine research, outreach, and education program based at Oregon State University.
“Institutional Arrangements for Enhancing Sustainability.” Colloquium presentation, School of Geographical Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, January 23, 2009.
“Reflections on Past, Present, and Future of Experiments of Social and Commons Dilemmas.” Opening presentation at the “Workshop on Lab and Field Experiments on Social and Commons Dilemmas,” Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, January 12, 2009.
“How Do Institutions
for Collective Action Evolve?” Golden Jubilee Lecture delivered at the
Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India, October 14, 2008.
“Social Capital and
Cooperation in Collective Action Situations.” Plenary speech presented
at the International Conference on “Contributions of Cooperative
Self-Help to Economic and Social Development,” University of Cologne,
Germany, October 8, 2008.
“Studying
Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach.” Lecture presented
at the seminar on “Cross-Disciplinary Research Problems,” Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, September 11,
2008.
“The Challenge of
Building Trust to Solve Commons Dilemmas.” Galbraith Forum lecture
presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual
Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 27–29, 2008.
“A Dynamic Diagnostic
Approach.” Keynote address presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of
the International Association for the Study of the Commons on
“Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global
Challenges,” Cheltenham, England, July 14–18, 2008.
“Design Principles of
Robust Property-Rights Institutions: What Have We Learned?” Keynote
address presented at conference on “Land Policies and Property Rights,”
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, June 2–3, 2008.
“Unpacking
Decentralization” (with Krister Andersson, Jacqueline Bauer, Pam
Jagger, Marty Luckert, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Esther Mwangi). Paper
presented at the 2008 SANREM CRSP Annual Meeting, Los Baños,
Philippines, May 26–28, 2008.
“Updating the Design
Principles for Robust Resource Institutions.” Keynote speech presented
at the International Science and Policy Conference on “Resilience,
Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times,” Stockholm, Sweden,
April 15, 2008.
“How Do
Institutions for Collective Action Evolve?” Neale Wheeler Watson
Lecture presented at the Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden, April 12,
2008.
“Prescribing Optimal
Institutions is Not Optimal.” Centennial Scholar Lecture presented at
the Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL, March 26, 2008.
“Institutions and
Sustaining Social-Ecological Systems from Local to Global.” Plenary
speech presented at the Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, San
Antonio, TX, March 7–9, 2008.
“The Danger of
Prescribing Institutional Blueprints.” Keynote speech presented at the
Workshop on “Which Governance for Which Environment? Institutions,
Social Preferences, and Knowledge for Governing Environmental Issues,”
Cargese, France, February 4–8, 2008.
“Polycentric Governance
in Resource Governance: Concepts and Empirical Evidence.” Keynote
Speech presented at the International Conference on “Adaptive and
Integrated Water Management:
Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty,” Basel, Switzerland, November
12–15, 2007.
“To Trust or Not to
Trust? That is the Question.” Discussion paper for symposium on “Games,
Groups, God(s), and the Global Good,” Princeton University, October
4–6, 2007.
“Trust in
Private and Common Property Experiments” (with James Cox, James Walker,
Jaime Castillo, Eric Coleman, Robert Holahan, Michael Schoon, and Brian
Steed). Paper presented at the American Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 30–September 2, 2007.
“Why Do
We Need Laboratory Experiments in Political Science?” Paper presented
at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago,
IL, August 30–September 2, 2007.
“Trust in
Private and Common Property Experiments” (with James Cox and James
Walker). Paper presented at the panel on “Fairness Economics and
Political Economy,” at the American Political Science Association
annual meeting, Chicago, IL, August 30–September 2, 2007.
“The
Challenge of Crafting Rules to Change Open Access Resources into
Managed Resources.” Paper presented at the IEA Roundtable on the
Sustainability of
Economic Growth, Beijing, China, July 13–14, 2007.
“On Polycentricity,”
with Vincent Ostrom. Speech presented at the Workshop on
“Polycentricity and Its Implications for China,” Renmin University,
Beijing, China, July 3, 2007.
“Community Self
Governance,” with Vincent Ostrom. Speech presented at the China
University of Politics and Law, Beijing, China, July 1, 2007.
“The
Complexity of Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented
at the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change IHDP
Workshop, Institute for Forecasting, THEMES Summer School, Slovak
Republic, June 20, 2007.
“A Multi-Tier Framework
for Analyzing Linked Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented for
the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Seminar
Series, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, June 15, 2007.
“Beyond Panaceas:
Understanding the Role of Context in Affecting Institutional Choice and
Performance.” Keynote speech presented at the International Symposium
on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Arendal, Norway, June 14, 2007.
“Diverse Governance
Arrangements for Ecological Sustainability.” Plenary speech presented
at the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological
Economics, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany,
June 5, 2007.
“The
Evolution of Social Norms.” Lecture presented at the Center for
Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human
Development, Berlin, Germany, June 4, 2007.
“The Role
of Norms and Rules in Maintaining Open Public and Private Economies.”
Lecture presented at the Honorary Doctorate Award Ceremony, Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany, June 1, 2007.
“Resilient
Social-Ecological Systems: How Do We Achieve Them?” Seminar presented
at the Inauguration of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden, May 29, 2007.
“Understanding
Social-Ecological Systems.” Lecture presented at the Linnaeus Honorary
Doctorate Ceremony, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, May 24, 2007.
"Trust and Reciprocity
as Foundations for Cooperation: Individuals, Institutions, and Context"
(with James Walker). Paper presented at the Economics Research Seminar,
Zurich, Switzerland, May 3, 2007.
“Halting Deforestation: Reflections from the Air, from the Ground, and from the Lab.”
Keynote speech presented at the 8th Swiss Global Change Day, Bern, Switzerland, April 4, 2007.
“Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change.” Paper presented at a Workshop in
Honor of the Career of Professor A. Allan Schmid on “Various Approaches to Assessing the Evolution and Impact of
Alternative Institutional Structures,” Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 15–17, 2007.
“A Diagnostic Approach for Going Beyond Panaceas.” Lecture presented at the School of Environment and Natural
Resources Seminar Series, Ohio State University, Columbus, March 8, 2007.
“Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems: An Impossibility?” Topical lecture presented at the
2007 AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, February 17, 2007.
“Crafting Diverse Institutional Arrangements for Governing Diverse Ecological Systems.” Paper presented at the
2007 AAAS Annual Meeting Symposium on “Grand Challenges of Sustainability Science,” San Francisco, CA, February 17, 2007.
“Beyond Panaceas: The Importance of Institutional Diversity.” Lecture presented as the Seventy-Fifth Lecture in The
Alex G. McKenna Economic Education Series, The Center for Political and Economic Thought in conjuction with the
Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, February 7, 2007.
“Insights in Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab.” Wrigley
lecture presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) Ninth Annual Poster
Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, January 10, 2007.
“The Challenge of Going
Beyond Panaceas.” Paper presented at the Workshop on “Beyond Panaceas:
Crafting Diverse Institutional Arrangements for Governing Diverse
Social-Ecological Systems,” Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona
State University, Tempe, January 8–10, 2007.
“Mapping Institutional Landscapes.” Paper presented at the conference on “Imaging Environment: Maps,
Models, and Metaphors,” Stanford Humanities Center/Stanford Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, November 8–10, 2006.
“Institutional
Innovation in Real-Time Dynamic Spatial Commons” (with Marco Janssen).
Paper presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS), Indiana University, Bloomington,
October 25–26, 2006.
“Trust and Property Rights: Experimental Evidence” (with James Cox, James Walker, Jamie Castillo,
Eric Coleman, Robert Holahan, Michael Schoon, and Brian Steed). Paper presented at the 26th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS), Indiana University,
Bloomington, October 25–26, 2006.
“The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
in Historical Perspective.” Paper presented at the panel on “Starting from Here: Understanding the
Context of Development and Democratization—From Nineteenth-Century Theory to Twenty First-Century Practice,”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadephia, PA, August 31–September 3, 2006.
“Multiple Methods for Studying Collective Action in the Commons.” PowerPoint presentation at the International Seminar
on “Collective Action in the Commons: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches,” Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia,
August 14–17, 2006.
“Linking Forests, Trees, and People: Insights from the
Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab” (with Harini Nagendra). Presentation
at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, August 18, 2006; the Third World Congress of Environmental and
Resource Economists, Kyoto, Japan, July 4, 2006; and the Fourth Biennial IFRI Network Meeting, Bogor, Indonesia,
June 24–27, 2006.
“Decentralized Natural Resource Governance from a Polycentric Perspective” (with
Krister Andersson). Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2006.
“Analyzing Institutional Diversity and Change.” Talk given at the School of Human Evolution
and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, April 11, 2006.
“Institutions as a Form of Social Capital.” PowerPoint presentation at Plenary
Session, Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Capital, University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, IN, April 2–3, 2006.
“The Danger of Institutional Monoculture to Preserve Biological Diversity.” Paper presented at the
Gruter Institute’s Meeting on “Free Enterprise: Values in Action,” University of Cambridge, UK, March 25, 2006.
“Understanding Institutional Diversity.” Lecture presented for the Faculty of Political Science,
University of Milan, Italy, March 24, 2006.
“Multiple Methods for Studying Collective Action.” Keynote speech presented at the IASCP Europe
Regional Meeting, Brescia, Italy, March 23, 2006.
“Comparing the Knowledge Commons with Resource Commons.” Preconference workshop given
with Charlotte Hess at the IASCP Europe Regional Meeting, Brescia, Italy, March 22, 2006.
“The Evolution of Social Norms.” Paper presented at the Joint Seminar Series for the Donald Bren
School of Environmental Science and Management and the Department of Economics at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2, 2006.
“Co-Evolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics.”
Paper presented at the University of California, Irvine, March 1, 2006.
“The Danger of Institutional Monoculture to Preserve Biological Diversity.” Paper presented for the
Major Issues in Modern Biology Series at the University of California, Davis, February 27, 2006.
“Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change.” Paper presented at the symposium on
“Who Should Do What in Environmental Governance: Institutions and Constraints,” Porto
Conte Ricerche (PCR) Centre in Tramariglio (Alghero), Sardinia, Italy, September 21–24, 2005;
and at the Future of the Social Sciences II Conference, The Cornell Club, New York City, October 6–8, 2005.
“Converting
Threats Into Opportunities.” James Madison Award lecture presented at
the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, September 1–4, 2005.
“Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide: Strategies for Building Large-N Databases Based on
Qualitative Research” (with Amy Poteete). Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1–4, 2005.
“People and Trees: An Institutional Analysis.” Paper based on a presentation made at the annual conference on
“Environmental and Resource Economics,” Ulvőn Island, June 21–23, 2005 (sponsored by the Department of Economics, Umea
University, the Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and the Beijer Institute,
The Royal Academy of Science).
“The Complexity of Collective Action Theory.” Paper presented at the conference
on “Analyzing Problems of Polycentric Governance in the Growing EU,” Humboldt
University, Berlin, Germany, June 16–17, 2005.
“Collective Action Theory.” Paper presented as lecture at Duke University,
Durham, NC, April 28, 2005.
“Cross-Cultural Evidence of the Impact of Human Actions on Forest Conditions.”
Keynote speech presented for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs/Environmental
Management Association, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 22, 2005.
“Understanding Institutional Diversity: Challenges in Governing the Commons.”
Masterclass presented at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia, March 7, 2005.
“Multiple Institutions for Multiple Outcomes.” Keynote address presented at the
Undara Workshop, “Property Rights–Key to Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Development
in Outback Regions,” Undara, Queensland, Australia, March 1–3, 2005.
“Conserving the World’s Forests: Are Protected Areas the Only Way?” (with Tanya
Hayes). Paper presented at the conference on “The Law and Economics of Development, Trade, and
the Environment,” Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, January 22, 2005.
“Intentional Communities in Southern Indiana” (with Shanon Donnelly, Lauren
Persha, Amy Poteete, and David Welch). Presented at the workshop on “Forest Land
Conservation: An Indiana Portfolio,” Brown County Inn, Nashville, IN, November
10, 2004, organized by the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and
Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University; Department of Forestry and
Natural Resources, Purdue University, in cooperation with the Division of
Forestry, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and the Indiana Chapter of
The Nature Conservancy.
“Dangers of Panaceas and Quick Fixes for Ecological Problems.” Public Lecture at
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 4–5, 2004.
"Understanding Institutional Diversity." Distinguished Lecture at Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, October 21, 2004.
“Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Public Economies.” Plenary address
presented at the EGDI-WIDER conference “Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the
Informal and Formal Sectors,” Helsinki, Finland, September 17–18, 2004.
“Institutional Dynamics, Spatial Organization and Landscape Change” (with Tom
Evans and Abigail York). Paper presented at workshop on “Places of Power:
Economic and Political Driving Forces of Landscape Change,” Chicago, IL, September 10–11, 2004.
“Unsolved Real-World Problems Reflecting Theoretical Deficiencies.” Led
discussion with Jack Knight at the conference on “The Future of the Social Sciences,” Washington
University, St. Louis, MO, September 7–10, 2004.
“Conceptual Consistency and Data Comparability: Methodological Challenges to
Empirical Research on Collective Action” (with Amy Poteete). Paper presented in a
poster session at the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, September 2–5, 2004.
“Collective Action Theory.” Co-taught workshop with Krister Andersson at the 10th
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
(IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9, 2004.
“Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems to Spatial and Temporal Disturbance and
Stress Regimes” (with Marco Janssen and Marty Anderies). Paper presented at the
10th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of
Common Property (IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9–13, 2004.
“Governing Scholarly Communication: A Framework for Understanding Collective
Action and Policy Design” (with Charlotte Hess). Paper presented at the 10th
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common
Property (IASCP), Oaxaca, Mexico, August 9–13, 2004.
“Helping to Craft Robust Institutions: Cases from the Indrawati Watershed in
Nepal” (with Ganesh Shivakoti). Paper presented at the “Third Workshop on the
Workshop,” Indiana University, Bloomington, June 2–6, 2004.
“Looking Beyond Panaceas: The Tough Job of Building Effective Social Capital in
Development.” Paper presented to the Social Development Department of the World
Bank, Washington, DC, April 20, 2004.
“A Framework for Analyzing Scholarly Communication as a Commons” (with Charlotte Hess). Paper presented at the “Workshop on Scholarly Communication as a Commons,” Workshop in
Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, March 31–April 2, 2004.
“Issues of Rationality in Institutional Analysis: Experiences in the Application of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework.” Paper presented at the Center for
Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany, March 22, 2004.
“Managing Resources in the Global Commons.” Paper presented to students in John Vann’s “Creating a Sustainable Future” class at Ball State University, Muncie, IN, March 2, 2004.
“The Working Parts of Rules and How They May Evolve Over Time.” Presented at the workshop on “The Evolution of Designed Institutions,” Max Planck Center
Conference, Jena, Germany, February 19–21, 2004.
“Understanding Institutional Diversity: Explaining the Differences in Human Behavior in Alternative Institutional Structures.” Seng Tee Lee Lecture given at All Souls College, Oxford, UK, January 29, 2004.
“The Robustness of Ecosystems Maintained by State-Dependent Cross-Scale Institutions” (with Marco Janssen and John M. Anderies). Presented at the workshop on Resiliency and Change in Ecological Systems, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, October 25–27, 2003.
“The Robustness of Multi-Level Social-Ecological Systems” (with John M. Anderies and Marco Janssen). Presented at the American Political Science Association
meetings, Philadelphia, PA, August 28–31, 2003.
“Looking Backward—A Time of Turmoil; Looking Forward—A Time of Opportunity.” Presented at the panel on “What Has Political Science Been: What Should It
Become?,” American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, PA,
August 28–31, 2003. An earlier version of a talk based on this paper was given
at the occasion of the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of The Institute for
Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, June 14–17, 2003, and as part of the 50th
Anniversary of the School of Public Affairs, seminar on “Economics, Politics and
Public Policy,” Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, June 18–21, 2003.
“Rules, Incentives, and Enforcement: Livelihood Strategies of Community Forestry
and Leasehold Forestry Users in Nepal” (with Mukunda Karmacharya and Birendra
Karna). Presented at the conference on “Rural Livelihoods, Forests and
Biodiversity,” Bonn, Germany, May 19–23, 2003.
“Design Principles for Robustness of Institutions in Social-Ecological Systems”
(with John M. Anderies and Marco Janssen). Presented at the conference on
“Robustness of Coupled Natural and Human Systems,” Santa Fe, NM, May 16–18, 2003.
“Social Capital and the Second-Generation Theories of Collective Action: An
Analytical Approach to the Forms of Social Capital” (with T. K. Ahn). Presented
at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston, MA, August 30–September 1, 2002.
“Beliefs, Institutional Innovation, and Sustainable Development” (with Marco
Janssen). Presented at the American Political Science Association annual
meeting, Boston, MA, August 30–September 1, 2002.
“How Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems Build Social Capital to Outperform
Agency-Managed Systems that Rely Primarily on Physical Capital.” Presented to
the International Seminar on Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems, organized by the
FMIS Trust, Kathmandu, Nepal, April 18–29, 2002.
“Incorporating Motivational Heterogeneity Into Game Theoretic Models of
Collective Action” (with T. K. Ahn and James Walker). Presented at the annual
meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Diego, CA, March 22–24, 2002.
“Type of Goods and Collective Action.” Presented at the annual meeting of the
Public Choice Society, San Diego, CA, March 22–24, 2002.
“An Institutional Approach to the Study of Forest Resources” (with Amy Poteete).
Presented at the Department of Economy and Administration, University of Sao
Paolo, Brazil, December 14, 2001.
“Polycentric Institutions as a Way of Blending Local and Global Knowledge.”
Keynote speech at the 3rd Annual Global Development Conference of the Governing
Body of the Global Development Network, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9–12, 2001.
“Artifacts, Facilities, and Content: Information as a Common-Pool Resource”
(with Charlotte Hess). Presented at the Conference on the Public Domain, Duke
Law School, Durham, NC, November 9–11, 2001.
“A Social Science Perspective on Social Capital: Social Capital and Collective
Action” (with T. K. Ahn). Report prepared for the Bundestag - Enquete Commission.
Presented at the EURESCO conference on Social Capital: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives, Exeter, UK, September 15–20, 2001.
“Managing Common Resources–What is the solution?” Keynote lecture at a symposium
organized by the Programme on Population and Development, the Department of
Sociology, and the Department of Economics, Lund University, Switzerland,
September 10–11, 2001.
“Some Thoughts about ‘Shaking Things Up? Future Directions in Political
Science.’” An Open Roundtable Discussion paper presented at the American
Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 1, 2001.
“Critical Factors that Foster Local Self-Governance of Common-Pool Resources:
The Role of Heterogeneity” (with Marco Janssen). Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Resilience Alliance, Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 16-18, 2001; and at the
conference on “Inequality, Collective Action, and Environmental Sustainability,”
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, September 21–23, 2001.
“Policies That Crowd Out Reciprocity and Collective Action.” Presented at the
Gerzensee Conference on Intrinsic Motivation in Law and Business, Gerzensee,
Switzerland, June 18–22, 2001.
“What Do People Bring Into the Game? How Information Helps to Reduce the Tragedy
of the Commons” (with Juan-Camilo Cardenas). Presented at the Norms seminar
organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Law, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO, March 29–31, 2001. Also used as a background paper
for presentations at “The Link between Norms and Scale” Conference, Los Angeles,
CA, April 13–14, 2001, and the “4th Toulouse Conference on Environment and
Resource Economics,” Property Rights, Institutions and Management of
Environmental and Natural Resources, Toulouse, France, May 3–4, 2001.
“Common Pool Resources and Institutional Design Principles.” Presentation for
the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD-Mexico) National Seminar on
“Collective Action and Common Pool Resources: ‘Governing the Commons,’” El
Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, December 6–7, 2000.
“The Interaction of Organized Human Systems and Ecosystems.” Marsh Distinguished
Lecture to the Graduate School of Geography and George Perkins Marsh Institute,
Clark University, Worcester, MA, November 16, 2000.
“Decentralization, Collective Action, and Resource Management in South Asia”
(with Arun Agrawal). Presented at the American Political Science Association
annual meeting, Washington, DC, August 31–September 3, 2000.
“National Currents in Civic Environmentalism.” Presentation at the conference on
“Decentralization of Environmental Policymaking: Civic Environmentalism in
Theory and Practice,” sponsored by the Civic Environmentalism Working Group of
the George C. Marshall Institute, Portland, ME, August 17–19, 2000.
“Understanding the Complex Linkage Between Attributes of Goods and the
Effectiveness of Property Rights Regimes.” Presented at the conference on
“Common Goods and Governance Across Multiple Arenas,” organized by the Max
Planck Project Group on “Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics,” Bonn,
Germany, June 30–July 1, 2000.
“Redundancy and Diversity in Governing and Managing Common-Pool Resources” (with
Bobbi Low, Carl Simon, and James Wilson). Presented at the 8th Biennial
Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
(IASCP), Bloomington, IN, May 31–June 4, 2000.
“Radical Decentralization in Developing Countries: a Recommended Panacea Without
an Empirically Grounded Institutional Theory.” Background paper for the
conference on “Development and the Nation State in the Cross-Currents of
Globalization and Decentralization,” Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April
7–9, 2000; Plenary Lecture for the Political Studies Association 50th
Anniversary Conference on “The Challenges for Democracy in the 21st Century,”
London School of Economics and Political Science, April 10–13, 2000.
“Coping with Tragedies of the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges.”
Presentation for the Managing Global Issues Project, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Washington, DC, February 25, 2000.
“Crowding Out Citizenship.” Acceptance address for the Johan Skytte Prize in
Political Science from the Skytte Foundation, Uppsala University, Sweden, October 2, 1999.
“Context and Collective Action: Four Interactive Building Blocks for a Family of
Explanatory Theories.” Plenary address at the Association for Politics and the
Life Sciences (APLS), Atlanta, GA, September 2–5, 1999; Keynote speech at the
International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Washington, DC, September 17–18, 1999.
“Generating Distrust in PD Games: Fear, Greed, and History of Play” (with T.K.
Ahn, David Schmidt, Robert Shupp, and James Walker). Presented at the conference
on “Behavioral Foundations of Trust,” Russell Sage Foundation, New York, February 18–21, 1999.