Monday 4 March 2013

Visit the website to review articles and items of interest. The table of contents can be acessed at: http://www.thecommonsjournal.org

In this issue, you will find among other things a selection of five articles pertaining to a special feature on “Commons in a changing Europe,”
developed by Audun Sandberg, Achim Schlueter, and Insa Theesfeld.

Besides the special feature articles, the latest issue contains also a number of regular contributions: 

  • Tine de Moor’s ‘Silent Revolution’. Reconsidering her theoretical framework for explaining the emergence of institutions for collective management of resources (by Daniel Curtis)
  • An analytical framework for common-pool resource–large technical system(CPR-LTS) constellations (by Pär Blomkvist and Jesper Larsson);
  • Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons (by Gary Shiffman and Ravi Gupta);
  • Conceptualising context in institutional reforms of land and natural resource management: the case of Vietnam (by Floriane Clement and Jaime Amezaga);
  • Shareholder perceptions of individual and common benefits in Swedish forest commons (by Gun Lidestav, Mahesh Poudyal, Eva Holmgren, and Carina Keskitalo),
  • Resource conflict, collective action, and resilience: an analytical framework (by Blake Ratner, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Candace May, and Eric Haglund).

Furthermore, this new IJC issue contains two book reviews that may interest our readers.

IJC congratulates Anne Larson and Jadder Lewis-Mendoza for winning the 2012 Ostrom Memorial Award for Most Innovative Paper of the Year:
http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/announcement/view/9

They also want to draw your attention to a new initiative in which the International Journal of the Commons proudly participates: The Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons and invite you to check out the details regarding the application and award process at:
http://elinorostromaward.org/

If you’re interested in IJC download and citation numbers, please join the “International Journal of the Commons” group on LinkedIn. You can also follow us on twitter (IJCCommons).

As always, they are interested in hearing what you think of the journal and its content.