World Wildlife Fund’s
Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series
Dr. Elinor Ostrom
Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
Indiana University
Date: Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Time: 4:30-5:30pm (lecture); 5:30-6:30pm (reception)
Admission: FREE!!
Registration: http://www.worldwildlife.org/
Location: World Wildlife Fund Headquarters
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
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Diagnosing Social Ecological System
Many crucial problems affect social-ecological systems (SES) of diverse scales all the way from small lakes, forests, and irrigation systems to the globe. If we do not really develop a common language for discussing these questions, we are not going to move forward. In her talk, Dr. Ostrom will discuss the SES framework that was initially developed for a special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This analytic framework examines the interactions among four domains – governance, users, resource systems, and resource units – and the social and ecological outcomes that result from these interactions. She will apply it to the analysis of the impact of institutional arrangements on the performance of irrigation systems in Nepal and forests in 10 countries across the world, and discuss some of the current interests by scholars in Europe and the U.S. to move on and develop it still further.
Abbreviated Biography
Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and a recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009, Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange, the Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award, the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science.
Her books include Governing the Commons (1990); Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994, with Roy Gardner and James Walker); Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (1995, with Robert Keohane); Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2003, with James Walker); The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations (2003, with Nives Dolšak); The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005, with Clark Gibson, Krister Andersson, and Sujai Shivakumar); Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005); Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (2007, with Charlotte Hess); and Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (forthcoming 2010, with Amy Poteete and Marco Janssen).
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