The IASC is proud to present to you, as visitor to the Slideshare page, with a sample of our new promotional flyer. As you probably know, the IASC offers her members several ways of promoting their research, activities, and results, either online via our website www.iasc-commons.org, our webplatform CommonsNet (https://membership.iasc-commons.org/), ‘live’ at one of our conferences throughout the world, or of course by publishing in the International Journal of the Commons (see http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/). The IASC now also offers to her members yet another unique opportunity to promote the study of the commons! Your research promoted via the new IASC-flyer? At [add link] you will find an online example of the new IASC promotional flyer. This flyer will be used to promote the IASC among prospective members and will be distributed at various events on commons all over the world. But to our members, we offer the chance to have a picture of their case study on the next versions of the IASC promotional flyer, instead of the current photo. Not only will it draw the attention to your project, by adding a link to your own Commons Impact Story to the IASC website, you will also have the opportunity to tell others interested in the commons about your own research. What is in it for you? Besides the online promotion of your research as IASC-member you will also receive a stock of flyers for your own promotional activities for free. And at the same time you support the IASC in attracting additional new members – everybody wins! How does it work? The offer is open to all IASC-members. You will find more information about the membership fees and the registration form at https://membership.iasc-commons.org/. Memberships are available from 20 USD a year. If you want to seize the opportunity to put your research in the picture, please send us the following items: • a text on your commons-project. This text will be published on the IASC website as one of our Impact Stories; for guidelines for writing your text see the attached checklist; • at least two high-resolution pictures which represent your commons-project • your contact details (name, affiliation, membership number, and e-mail) Please send both the texts and the pictures to the IASC Secretariat at iasc@iasc-commons.org. From the cases received, we will select at least 4 cases that will be used for the new flyers, but all submitted case studies will be published online as one of our Impact Stories.

1. Join the IASC
Help us to expand research on and
our understanding of commons’
management and government
issues, offering both academic
and practitioner communities new
insights and opportunities! You can
join the IASC through individual,
organizational, or supporting
membership via our webpage
https://membership.iasccommons.org/.
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2. The International Association for
the Study of the Commons (IASC)
is the leading professional organi-
zation dedicated to the study of
­commons. ’Commons’ refers to re-
sources or services that are shared
by a community or group of stake-
holders, where access and use are
controlled through some form of
collective management structure.
Although we do not always realize
this, such a governance model plays
an important role in our society –
both in the present and in the past.
The study of the design and internal
mechanisms of these institutions
demonstrates that managing natural
and other resources as ‘commons’ can
result in a high degree of resilience and
sustainability.
The IASC aims, by bringing researchers
from various disciplines together with
practitioners and policymakers:
• to improve our theoretical under-
standing of the concept of commons
• to integrate knowledge on commons
from both scientists and practitioners
• to contribute to policy making on
the sustainable use of common pool
resources
The scope of the activities of the IASC
varies from a local to a global scale
and includes natural resources (such
as water, forests, fisheries), knowledge
systems, cultural practices, and other
shared resources managed in common.
The IASC offers you access to a range
of resources for research, such as
the Digital Library of the Commons
and the International Journal of the
Commons, the peer-reviewed open
access journal dedicated to publishing
your research articles on commons.
The IASC addresses issues on the
commons via:
• Global (biennial) conferences,
bringing together experts from all
over the world
• Regional conferences, focusing on
specific regional issues on commons
• Thematic conferences, focusing on
themes such as Knowledge Com-
mons and the design of institutions
for collective action.
Join the IASC
Help us to expand research on
commons’ issues. The IASC offers
new insights and opportunities for
both academics and practitioners. You
can join the IASC through individual,
organizational, or supporting
membership via our webpage https://
membership.iasc-commons.org/.
www.iasc-commons.org
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Association
for the Study of
the Commons
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