[P2P-F] Fwd: Sept 14-16 2011 : “Shared Resources in a Rapidly Changing World” - Plovdiv, Bulgaria - IASC European Meeting

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Subject: Sept 14-16 2011 : “Shared Resources in a Rapidly Changing World” -
Plovdiv, Bulgaria - IASC European Meeting
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 IASC European Meeting 2011 : 2011 IASC European Meeting - Shared Resources
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Link: http://www.iasc-europe2011.de   WhenSep 14, 2011 - Sep 17, 2011
WherePlovdiv,
Bulgaria Submission DeadlineMar 1, 2011 Notification DueApr 15, 2011 Final
Version DueJul 15, 2011  *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat>
    science and
research<http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=science%20and%20research>
   policy actors<http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=policy%20actors>
   common property
resources<http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=common%20property%20resources>
   governance and
management<http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=governance%20and%20management>

 Call For Papers
The regional meeting of the EU branch of the IASC will have as its theme
“Shared Resources in a Rapidly Changing World”, reflecting the emphasis on
the currently well recognized fact that many if not most resources (e.g.
natural resources, social capital, knowledge) require a shared management
regime. This is due to complex socio-ecological inter-dependencies, which do
not stop neither at national boundaries nor private properties. But a
multitude of combined and mixed governance regimes is necessary to manage
these resources in an efficient and sustainable way. Accelerated change
creates a particular threat to joint management regimes; however, as we are
currently in a period of fast change, the conference puts an emphasis on the
implication of this fact.

The aim of the European Regional Meeting 2011 is to strengthen the network
of European researchers who are investigating those shared management
regimes. The conference site, one of the conference themes and the field
excursion will highlight in particular the special challenges of (natural)
resource management regimes in the post-socialist countries.

Besides the regional focus of Eastern Europe, the conference is open to all
European scientists and actors active in the policy domain who work on
property regimes and who contribute to discuss new modes of governance for
shared resources.

The conference is organized in 4 subthemes:

* Multiple Drivers to Change in Common Management

In recent years we experience a rapidly evolving new category of drivers for
new modes of governance in shared resources’ management. In comparison to
the past, where of course institutional change always took place and was
triggered by various determinants, current drivers such as climate change or
the perception of groundwater depletion have certain particularities. They
require precautionary actions, i.e. ex-ante, anticipatory, planned
adaptation strategies in resource governance in order to avoid irreversible
damages at a later stage. This theme comprises theoretical but also
empirical studies which deal with the development of such drivers, their
relationships to other drivers as well as the direct or indirect impact of
these drivers on the management of the shared resources

* Post Socialist Commons: the Road Ahead

This theme examines the actual shifts in the management of shared resources
in Central and South-Eastern European Countries and the Western Balkans,
including the new member states: those which recently entered the European
Union in 2007, those which started negotiations, and those not yet formally
affiliated to the EU. The socialist legacy and experience of two decades of
transition phase led to specific requirements for coordination mechanisms,
particularly self-governance management solutions.

* Methods Investigating Complex Common Property Regimes

This theme focuses on new methodological developments for investigating
shared resource systems in a rapidly changing world. Methods range from
laboratory experiments to field experiments. Apart from rational maximizing
behavior, people follow rules of thump, behave reciprocal or altruistic or
follow any other behavioral rule. This behavioral diversity can e.g. be
captured by agent based modeling. Thus, for understanding common property
regimes and for performing institutional analysis, we need to move far
beyond either classical case study or large n-study research, and
methodological diversity will lead to the best understanding.

* Multi-level Governance

Particularly looking at shared resources and the management of such
socio-ecological systems, often a multiplicity of governance levels is
required for regulating a resource. Therefore this conference wants to deal
explicitly with this inherent complexity. This complexity on various levels
leads to a so far unknown multiplicity of drivers of change in commons´
management. The European post-socialist countries are particularly
interesting examples to study multi-level governance due to their necessary
institutionalizations on various levels. In that respect, the theme will
also analyze how far the polycentricity concept is applied already in
European shared resource management. In a polycentric system, each unit
exercises considerable independence to make and enforce rules within a
circumscribed domain of authority for a specified geographical area.

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