Prof. Dr. Erling Berge became professor of property rights institutions at NMBU in 2011. There he participated in the creation of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Land Tenure Studies. He has worked on problems in demography, urban and regional development, and economic sociology, but since 1985 he has increasingly focused on institutional theory of land tenure regimes. During 2002-2004 he served as president for the International Association for the Study of Commons, and in 2004 together with Tine de Moor he started the International Journal of the Commons.
Berge graduated from the University of Bergen in 1973 with a major in sociology and minors in mathematics and statistics. He received his Ph.D. (sociology) from Boston University in 1981, and was promoted to full professor of sociology (methods) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1995. Berge has previously held positions at the Institute of Applied Social Research, Oslo, the Agricultural University of Norway, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. During sabbaticals he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Essex, Colchester, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo.
I study environmental governance, particularly the governance of ecosystems. My research agenda includes an interest in common pool resources (CPRs), socio-ecological systems, decentralization reforms, local democracy and participation, and the solving of collective action dilemmas.
I am Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) (www.uab.cat/icta), where I coordinate the Ecological Economics track of the Erasmus+ master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability and participate of the Ecological Economics Research Group (https://ictaweb.uab.cat). I am an environmental social scientist trained in political science (Master’s in Public Policy at Sciences Po Paris), and in institutional and ecological economics (PhD Environmental Policy and Management, at the Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University). My line of research is called institutional analysis of natural resource management.
The field of institutional analysis natural resource management has been mostly driven by the institutional economics research tradition. I have expanded the scholarship by connecting it to political ecology and into previously unexplored contexts such as climate change adaptation and vulnerability in rural contexts. I have done this both in the Global North (Spain, Germany, Switzerland) as well as in the Global South (Mexico and Colombia) and with a diversity of methods, ranging from case studies and econometrics to experimental economics and choice experiments.
Prof. Dr. Erling Berge became professor of property rights institutions at NMBU in 2011. There he participated in the creation of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Land Tenure Studies. He has worked on problems in demography, urban and regional development, and economic sociology, but since 1985 he has increasingly focused on institutional theory of land tenure regimes. During 2002-2004 he served as president for the International Association for the Study of Commons, and in 2004 together with Tine de Moor he started the International Journal of the Commons.
Berge graduated from the University of Bergen in 1973 with a major in sociology and minors in mathematics and statistics. He received his Ph.D. (sociology) from Boston University in 1981, and was promoted to full professor of sociology (methods) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 1995. Berge has previously held positions at the Institute of Applied Social Research, Oslo, the Agricultural University of Norway, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. During sabbaticals he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Essex, Colchester, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona. During the academic year 2002-2003 he was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo.
I'm mainly interested in computational social sciences with applications on environmental issues. Besides data (and big data) analysis, I'm especially fascinated in two research approaches: (1) the use of experimental methods in the study of social mechanisms, with a specific reference to social dilemma situations; (2) the application of agent-based modelling to analyse social and social-ecological system. These different approaches can be used in isolation or, better, combined to reach a better understanding of the problem under consideration.
Senior research fellow at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), based at DYNAFOR, an interdisciplinary joint research unit located in Toulouse, France (https://en.dynafor.fr).
Gustavo is an environmental policy and politics scholar-activist who studies human-environment interactions through the lens of institutional analysis and political ecology approaches. He is particularly interested in grassroots collective action initiatives that seek to advance transformations towards more just and ecological worlds. His work has been geographically situated in Latin America and the Caribbean, with particular focus in Mexico and in his native Puerto Rico, though he also enjoys engaging in transnational collaborations and comparative analyses. We is currently Assistant Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra; and holds the 2019-2021 Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.
Principal Scientist and Team Leader for Equal Opportunities, Gender, Justice and Tenure.
I lived in Latin America for over 30 years and conduct research on multiple aspects of forest and landscape governance policy and institutions, from local to international scales. Current research priorities include opportunities and challenges for forest tenure reforms; women’s rights to land in communal forests; and multilevel governance, REDD+ and low emissions development.
John Kerr is an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in applied economics in 1990 at the Food Research Institute, Stanford University. Before joining the faculty at Michigan State University in 1999 he worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC.
His research interests are in international agricultural development and natural resource management. Focal areas of his research have been on adoption of agricultural technology and natural resource conservation practices, collective action and property rights related to natural resource management, and the interaction of these things with rural poverty in developing countries. His current research focuses on incentive-based conservation programs, including methods for promoting adoption of conservation practices and potential unanticipated drawbacks of the use of monetary incentives.
Maria Claudia Lopez is an associate professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. Her scholarly work is motivated to investigate how different rules and norms, understood as institutions, might drive resource users to govern their natural resources in sustainable and cooperative ways. For the past five years, she has been working with an interdisciplinary team investigating the impacts of hydropower in communities living nearby, and to think about solutions to ensure positive environmental and socio-economic outcomes in hydropower development.
Frank Matose currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Humanities South Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests are in the political economy of conservation and commons in Africa. He just published an edited volume titled The Violence of Conservation in Africa (https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800885608/9781800885608.xml) with Maano Ramutsindela and Tafadzwa Mushonga (2022) He is currently finalising a monograph titled Politics of Chronic Liminality: Forests and the power of the marginalised in Southern Africa.
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Member graduate programs in Anthropology; Ecology; and Geography. Former president of the IASC. Fellow of Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science; Soc. for Applied Anthropology; Amer. Anthropological Assoc.
Harini Nagendra is a Professor of Sustainability at Azim Premji University. She is an ecologist who uses methods from the natural and social sciences - satellite remote sensing, biodiversity studies, archival research, GIS, institutional analysis, and community interviews, to examine the sustainability of urban, forest and water commons from a global South perspective. She is the author of two recent books "Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future" (Oxford University Press India, 2016) and "Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities" (Penguin Random House India, 2019, with Seema Mundoli). Both books were listed by the science journal Nature in their weekly selection of five best science books published globally.
I am the Head of the Water Research Centre at the Independent Institute of Education in South Africa where I provide strategic leadership of the Centre that conducts applied research into water and other common pool resources including wildlife, forestry, fisheries, land and climate. I have devoted much of my working life researching into the resilience of African ecosystems and their relationships with society.
I received my Ph.D. in political science in 1978 from Indiana University with Vincent Ostrom as my dissertation chair. I was a member of the National Academy Panel on Common Property Resources, which led to the formation of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, in which I was a founding member and served on the first governing council. I wrote the framework piece for the National Academy case studies, published in 1992 in Making the Commons Work, edited by Dan Bromley, et al. More recently I have been interested in urban commons and presented at the IASC's Bologna conference, a piece subsequently published as "The Neighborhood as Commons: Reframing Neighborhood Decline" with co-author Jeremy D. W. Clifton in the Fordham Law Journal (2017).
I am an environmental social scientist working in the interdisciplinary field of social-ecological research. I completed my BA and MSc in Biology-Ecology at University of Murcia (Spain), where I also obtained a doctoral degree in 2007. I had two postdoctoral at Miguel Hernández University, Spain (2007-09) and the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, USA (2010-12). From 2012 to 2019, minus a 2yr period of maternity leave, I was Associate Research Scientist in the USA, first at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University (2012-14) and then at the School of Social Work at Columbia University in the City of New York (2016-2019).
At present, I am PI leading my own lab at the Agrifood Institute of Aragon-University of Zaragoza, funded by the Aragonese Foundation for Research and Development (ARAID) and an external affiliate at the Center for Behaviors, Institutions, and the Environment at Arizona State University, USA.
My research focuses on how communities organize to sustainable manage shared resources (e.g., water for irrigation) under global changes. My main research lines are: (1) biogeography of global institutional diversity, (2) social-ecological systems resilience to global changes, and (3) collective action for the provision of ecosystem services. In my research, I combine quantitative and qualitative social research tools, including computational modeling, behavioral experiments, systematic review, and case study analyses
Dr. Pinkerton is a maritime anthropologist who has integrated common property theory and cultural/political ecology in considering the role communities play in the management of adjacent renewable natural resources. She has played a key role in developing the theory and practice of power-sharing and stewardship through co-management agreements. Beginning with the introduction to her 1989 edited volume Cooperative Management of Local Fisheries (UBC Press), she has been generating middle-range theoretical propositions about the conditions under which co-management is likely to arise and to endure. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on fisheries and forestry co-management arrangements, and in Fisheries that Work (1995, co-authored with Martin Weinstein), began to develop a more comprehensive framework for analyzing and comparing co-management arrangements. This work has since evolved into analysis of the developmental sequence of types of co-management rights and activities.
Yahua (Bert) Wang is currently Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. and Master in Management and Bachelor in engineering from Tsinghua University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, under the guidance of Professor Elinor Ostrom. Professor Wang’s main research fields include Rural Studies and Public Policy, Commons Governance and Institutional Analysis, Natural Resources and Environmental Management. He has published 10 books and more than 100 academic papers in academic journals. He was the principal investigator of more than 30 research projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Foundation of China, and international organizations.
