Dear all, As it turns out, I am about 2 people short in a panel I am organizing for IASC 2013 (co-organized by our very own GEP-ED Margaret McKean) on new theory and methods of study of the commons (our GEP-ED colleague DG Webster is participating, though the other folks I thought would be have since declined). I would prefer if submissions touched something different from fish (Webster) or water (Pacheco-Vega). I am including the abstract in case anybody is interested, please do contact me off the list at my CIDE email.
raul(.)pacheco-vega(@)cide(.)edu *Panel title:* *New theoretical and empirical approaches to commons research * * * *A panel submitted to be considered in:* The *Commons: **Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge**: **Kitafuji Conference, *Monday June 3 to Friday June 7, 2013 Mount Fuji, Japan *Abstract*: Commons governance problems are much more complex than it would be apparent, and often require massive, multi-institution, collaborative and interdisciplinary teams to tackle challenging multi-level, cross-scalar commons issues. This panel will seek to provide an overview of different and innovative research methods and novel theoretical approaches to the study of commons. This panel will focus on the challenges of new theoretical lenses and innovative empirical research design. The panel will ask questions that include, but are not limited to: - How can we best use agent-based modeling and GIS to study commons governance? - What are the potential barriers to institutional stability and how can we best theorize institutional erosion and rules/norms decay? - How can we advance commons research through the generalization of large N case studies across countries/regions? * * Thanks in advance! Raul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega Assistant Professor, Public Administration Division CIDE, AC. (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, A.C) Region Centro Circuito Tecnopolo Norte S/N Col. Hacienda Nueva Aguascalientes, Ags. 20313 Mexico Tel. (+52-449) 994-5150 x 5196 Cel. Website <http://www.raulpacheco.org> - Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/raulpacheco>- Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/drpachecovega> - CIDE webpage<http://cide.edu/investigador/profile.php?IdInvestigador=1266>
