There is a feature section on "Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprises" in the latest issue of the International Journal of the Commons. This might be an interesting set of articles for those interested in commons-based business models.
Cheers, Stephan ----- Already following our trip through Brazil's Northeast? If not, check out http://almeidadohrn.com/. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank van Laerhoven <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:08 Subject: [IJC] New Issue Published New Issue Announcement Volume 4, Issue 1| June 2010 Editors-in-Chief Frank van Laerhoven and Erling Berge are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 4, Issue 1 (2010) of the International Journal of the Commons. We invite you to visit our website at: http://www.thecommonsjournal.org. Our newest issue contains a special feature called “Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprises” that was prepared by Iain J. Davidson Hunt and Fikret Berkes. Furthermore, you will find a sample of articles, the draft versions of which were presented at the IASC 12th Biennial Conference, Cheltenham, UK. This set of articles was compiled by guest-editors Bonnie McCay and Alyne Delaney. Also, we would like to draw your attention to the special feature on Microbial commons, that was prepared by Tom Dedeurwaerdere. Of course, besides these three batches of special feature articles, the new issue also contains regular research articles and a book review. Links to these articles in this issue are appended below. Thank you for your continued interest in our work, Frank van Laerhoven & Erling Berge Editors-in-Chief International Journal of the Commons (For instructions on how to remove yourself from the list, please send an email to: [email protected]) International Journal of the Commons Vol 4, No 1 (2010) Table of Contents http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/issue/view/16 Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprises (Guest editors: Iain J. Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes) -------- Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprises (1-7) Fikret Berkes, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico (8-35) Alejandra Orozco-Quintero, Iain Davidson-Hunt The use of joint ventures to accomplish aboriginal economic development: Two examples from British Columbia (36-55) Jeremy Boyd, Ronald Trosper Commons management and ecotourism: Ethnographic evidence from the Amazon (56-77) Amanda Lee Stronza Place-power-prognosis: Community-based conservation, partnerships, and ecotourism enterprises in Namibia (78-99) Arthur Frederick Hoole Vicuña conservation and poverty alleviation? Andean communities and international fibre markets (100-121) Gabriela Lichtenstein Community wildlife sites in Oxfordshire: an exploration of ecological and social meanings for green spaces (122-141) Anna Lawrence, Star Molteno, Tom Butterworth Institutional innovation in less than ideal conditions: Management of commons by an Alaska Native village corporation (142-159) Dixie Dayo, Gary Kofinas Placing the commons at the heart of community development: Three case studies of community enterprise in Caribbean islands (160-182) Sarah McIntosh, Yves Renard Community-based enterprises: The significance of partnerships and institutional linkages (183-212) Cristiana Simão Seixas, Fikret Berkes Selected papers from the IASC 12th Biennial Conference, Cheltenham, UK (Guest editors: Bonnie McCay and Alyne Delaney) -------- Introduction to Special Issue commemorating the 2008 conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (213-225) Bonnie J. McCay Towards an eclectic theory of the internet commons (226-250) Justyna Hofmokl Cooperative Research and Knowledge Flow in the Marine Commons (251-272) Teresa R. Johnson Deliberative democracy and co-management of natural resources: The case of Funäsdalen snowmobile regulation area (273-292) Anna Karin Elise Zachrisson Tenure, tourism and timber in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Land tenure changes in forest Ejidos after agrarian reforms (293-318) James A. Barsimantov, Alexis E. Racelis, Grenville Barnes, Maria DiGiano A common claim: Community land ownership in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (319-344) Fiona Douglas Mackenzie Poverty in small-scale fisheries: The governance perspective (345-366) Svein Jentoft, Paul Onyango, Mohammad Mahmudul Islam Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey (367-389) Grant Murray, Teresa Johnson, Bonnie J. McCay, Mike Danko, Kevin St. Martin, Satsuki Takahashi Microbial commons (Guest editor: Tom Dedeurwaerdere) -------- Self-governance and international regulation of the global microbial commons: Introduction to the special issue on the microbial commons (390-403) Tom Dedeurwaerdere Governing the management and use of pooled microbial genetic resources: Lessons from the global crop commons (404-436) Michael Halewood An empirical assessment of the effects of the 1994 In Trust Agreements on IRRI Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution (437-451) Elisabetta Gotor, Francesco Caracciolo Crop improvement in the CGIAR as a global success story of open access and international collaboration (452-480) Derek Byerlee, H.J. Dubin Public or private economies of knowledge: The economics of diffusion and appropriation of bioinformatics tools (481-506) Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin A common basis for facilitated legitimate exchange of biological materials proposed by the European Culture Collections' Organisation (507-527) Dagmar Fritze Research articles -------- The network structure of adaptive governance - A single case study of a fish management area (528-551) Annica Charlotte Sandström, Carl Vilhelm Rova Maine land: Private property and hunting commons (552-570) James Michael Acheson, Julianna Acheson “Hybrid institutions”: Applications of common property theory beyond discrete tenure regimes (571-596) Laura German, Andrew Keeler Book reviews -------- Fortmann, L. 2008. Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. Doing Science Together. Hoboken NJ; Wiley-Blackwell (597-598) D. 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