ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY
OF COMMON PROPERTY
M I S S I O N
The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP),
founded in 1989, is a nonprofit Association devoted to understanding and
improving institutions for the management of environmental resources that
are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities in developing
or developed countries.
G O A L S
The Association's Goals are:
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to encourage exchange of knowledge among diverse disciplines, areas, and
resource types;
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to foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience; and,
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to promote appropriate institutional design.
A C T I V I T I E S
The Association encourages intellectual exchange on policy applications
and CPR issues through a number of activities, including:
sponsoring annual or biennial conferences and co-sponsoring regional
workshops and conferences;
publishing the Common Property Resource Digest;
collecting basic information about networks of scholars,
practitioners, organizations, and institutions concerned with CPRs, in
order to encourage linkages and compile directories for IASCP members
within and between different regions of the world;
identifying guest editors to collect information from their regions
to promote the publication of articles by authors outside of North
America in the Common Property Resource Digest;
creating bibliographies of CPR research and publications;
fostering interdisciplinary discussions and the production of
scholarly, applied, and policy-oriented publications
B E N E F I T S
Association Benefits include:
subscription to the Common Property Resource Digest,
up-to-date compilations of CPR-related publications;
conference and publication discounts;
access to a worldwide network of experts;
announcements regarding professional activities
I N F O R M A T I O N S E R V I C E S
Access to the Digital Library of the Commons
Access to the Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis Library and IASCP archive
bibliographic and research consultation
You can reach us by E-mail at: iascp@indiana.edu.
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