John Powell and Chris Short are travelling to the beautiful medieval city centre of Utrecht in the Netherlands for the 16th Biennial Global conference ‘Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change’ of The International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC).
Drs Damian Maye, James Kirwan and Mauro Vigani were in Esbjerg, Denmark on the 4th-6th July for the fifth project meeting for the SUFISA [Sustainable finance for sustainable agriculture and fisheries] project.
As current IASC President John Powell has been particularly busy at the current international conference in Utrecht. He has not been as prolific as with previous conferences, but has had the opportunity to pen this piece - inspired by a bicycle related altercation he witnessed, about urban commons and how they are (or not) regulated.
The CCRI held its first ever postgraduate Summer School on 29th June, as an internal day of training and discussion for our PG research students.
Julie Ingram is at the 23rd European Seminar on Extension (and) Education this week in Chania, Crete, where she will be presenting a paper on behalf of a VALERIE team of co-authors from CCRI and Wageningen University.
A project summary for a European project, EDORA, carried out between 2008 and 2010 and funded through the ESPON 2013 Programme, can now be downloaded for free on the CCRI website.
In July 2017 the 16th Biennial IASC conference takes place in Utrecht. As current President of the IASC John Powell has penned a few lines in eager anticipation of the event.
Luca Lazzarini, our visiting PhD from Polytechnic of Turin, is making a presentation as part of the CCRI Seminar Series on Thursday 29th June. His presentation is based on the results of his study period at CCRI, which is due to end on July 15th 2017.
John Powell recently visited a common in South Wales which has been the focus of many battles over recent times, but the one that took place while he was there was a little out of the ordinary!