Building the European Commons: Report of the IASCP Europe Regional Meeting

Abstract

"The European Branch meeting of the IASCP in Brescia meeting is behind us, and now its time to sit down and reflect. It may be easier to start with some figures. About 80 people, coming from most of European countries and a number of extra-European ones, joined us in Brescia and, throughout the two days of the meeting opened by Lin Ostrom's keynote speech on Multiple methods for studying collective action over 60 papers were presented. That was much more than initially forecasted on the basis of European participation to the IASCP global meetings over the past few years. The success makes us therefore confident about the healthy status of common-pool resource research in Europe, and that is very good news."