WOW7 comes on the heels of the Ostrom Workshop's 50th Anniversary in 2023. Therefore, our conference theme integrates this milestone and seeks to look forward, building upon the traditions established by Vincent and Lin Ostrom. Join Us!
During the 50 years of existence of the Ostrom Workshop, the challenges of effective governance have become vastly more complex and transboundary in nature. Recent trends of increased regionalism and autocracy have tested the effectiveness of governance institutions at all levels. Increased political polarization compounds these challenges, constraining and often undermining more participatory forms of governance.
Yet, at the same time, successful efforts to manage diverse commons and public goods have also become apparent across sectors and around the world. The community of scholars exploring governance and institutions for the management of a wide range of resource systems has grown to include new approaches, methodologies, and issue areas. Beyond the historical analysis of natural resource systems and the environment, new frontiers of governance, such as data, knowledge, outer space, health, Internet, and cities have become part of the dynamic scholarship emerging in this space.
Held every five years since 1994, the seventh Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW7) conference will bring together researchers, students, and alumni from the Ostrom Workshop to reconnect and meet new colleagues and to explore a diverse range of topics and new approaches to the study of governance and institutions. The conference theme -- Commons, Polycentricity, and Democracy -- foregrounds the challenges of managing commons and public goods, as well as advancing globally shared goals for sustainable development and the peaceful management of existing and frontier resource systems, at a time of accelerated and conflicting social, environmental, and political changes.
We have selected a range of posters, panels, and papers that will explore, advance, and reflect upon the study of governance and institutions and the conference’s theme. The WOW7 conference program incorporates diverse theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiries from around the world. WOW7 will be held at Indiana University - Bloomington from June 19-21, 2024.
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For any questions contact: wow@iu.edu
