International Association for the Study of the Commons

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The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) was founded in 1989 as The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP). It is a non-for-profit organization that sees as its mission to further the understanding of institutions for the management of resources that are or could be held or used collectively as a commons by communities in developing and industrialized countries.

According to its vision statement, the goals of the association are:

• to encourage exchange of knowledge on the commons among diverse disciplines, areas, and resource types
• to foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience
• to promote appropriate institutional design

IASC publishes the International Journal of the Commons, "an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal ... dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively."^[1] The journal's editors-in-chief are Frank van Laerhoven (Utrecht University) and Michael Schoon (Arizona State University).^[2]

The association organizes biennial global conferences Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine as well as regional conferences. In 2012, it also organized the first First Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons.

• Common land
• Tragedy of the commons
• Information Commons
• Knowledge commons
• Commons-based peer production

• International Association for the Study of the Commons official website
• International Journal of the Commons
• First Thematic Conference of IASC on the Knowledge Commons

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