apply to India; Goa, India. (from below) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Ostrom's research as having "brought the topic from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention ... by showing how common resources - forests, fisheries, oil fields, or grazing lands - can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies."
*********************************************************************************************** *The South Asia Institute at Columbia University Upcoming Events** Calendar* *********************************************************************************************** *Tuesday, February 1 – Distinguished Lecturer Series * * A talk by 2009 Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom (Indiana) "The Challenge of Community Governance of Resources in Nepal." * Co-sponsored by Center for Environmental Research and Conservation Department of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology Program in Economic Research Elinor Ostrom is appointed as Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Senior Research Director at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (which she co-founded in 1973), at Indiana University in Bloomington. At Arizona State University, Ostrom is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA, and has been honored with numerous awards, prizes, and academic honors in the course of her career. In 2009, Dr. Ostrom received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Ostrom's research as having "brought the topic from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention ... by showing how common resources - forests, fisheries, oil fields, or grazing lands - can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies." To register for this event, please visit the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) website. <http://www.cerc.columbia.edu/?id=news-events#><http://www.cerc.columbia.edu/?id=news-events#> (Note: the CERC registration process may activate slowly. Registration has already closed, but wait-list status is available. Registration does not guarantee a seat. Seating is limited and will be first come, first seated, based on registration and wait-list status.) Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Location: 1501 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street at Amsterdam Avenue *********************************************************************************************** Please visit the South Asia Institute website at <http://www.sai.columbia.edu/> <http://www.sai.columbia.edu/> ***********************************************************************************************
