This is the third in a series of blog posts on the meaning of the design principles. The posts aim to provide a gentle introduction to each of Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable community-based natural resource management. As a reminder, these posts represent my own perspective...
This is the second of a series of blog posts on the meaning of the design principles. The posts aim to provide a gentle introduction to each of Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable community-based natural resource management. Each post includes definitions from the literature...
Hello, everyone! I think you’ll agree with me when I say that changes can be exciting. There have been some changes brewing at the In Common podcast with new additions to the team. With this blog post, I begin my new role as Blog Editor for the In Common podcast. I am thrilled to be taking over...
I have been increasingly asked to reflect upon who exactly is an “early career” person? And why even is such a distinction necessary? As someone who currently identifies as an early career scholar and represents one such network (the Early Career Network of the International Association of...
By Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz Published on October 28, 2020 On Not Suffering (Much) in Graduate School: Part 2 I wrote a piece in 2018 about the strategies and habits that helped me go through my terrible first year of graduate school (2017). I started that piece with a verse by Sol...
This blog post is based on a poll that we sent out a few weeks ago in which we asked our colleagues to describe their experiences teaching during the COVID pandemic. We asked them what worked and what didn’t. Below I’ll describe the results and my reactions to them, based on my own experiences...
During our most recent episode with Frank van Laerhoven, we talked about the good that academics can do within the field of environmental governance. Frank expressed some concern about how much public benefit was being generated from his work, relative to maybe what could be. I have increasingly...
I recently attended an in-person, outside and socially distanced of course, meeting with project collaborators. Although it was fairly clear that the pandemic and six months of living in our own little social bubbles had taken a toll on our social skills, it was really nice to see people...