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13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons
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2011-01-10 09:00
to 2011-01-14 17:00 |
| Where | Hyderabad |
| Contact Name | Subrat Singh, FES |
| Contact Email | subrat@fes.org.in |
| Contact Phone | Tel: 02692-261239/261402. |
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13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the study of Commons
The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons is to be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10-14, 2011. The Conference is being hosted by the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) and will be Chaired by Mr. Nitin Desai. The Co-Chair is Mr. Jagdeesh Puppala of the FES.
The theme of the conference is ‘Sustaining our Future’ and will deal with a range of physical common resources such as forests, grazing resources, protected areas, water resources, fisheries, coastal commons, lagoon commons, irrigation systems, livestock and commons as well as new commons such as information commons, cultural commons, genetic resources, patents and the climate.
The above subjects would be captured under the following sub-themes:
1. The Commons, Poverty and Social Exclusion;
2. Governance of the Commons: Decentralization, Property Rights, Legal Framework, Structure and Organization;
3. The Commons: Theory, Analytics and Data;
4. Globalisation, Commercialization and the Commons;
5. Managing the Global Commons: Climate Change and other Challenges;
6. Managing Complex Commons(lagoons, protected areas, wetlands, mountain areas, rangelands, coastal commons);
7. News Commons (Digital Commons, Genetic Commons, Patents, Music, Literature etc);
The organizers have invited abstracts for panels, individual papers, poster and videos,
which can be submitted through the online submission process.
Contact: Subrat Singh, FES, PO Box-29, NDDB
Campus, Anand, Gujarat-388001
Tel: 02692-261239/261402. Fax: 262087/262196
Email: subrat@fes.org.in
Web: http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/