International Association for the Study of the Commons


The International Association for the Study of the Commons was founded in 1989 as The International Association for the Study of Common Property. 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:
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 enjoyed collectively." The journal's editors-in-chief are Frank van Laerhoven and Michael Schoon.

Conferences

The association organizes biennial as well as regional conferences. In 2012, it also organized the first .