Course: Environmental Management: A Bottom-Up Approach to Policy Implementation

Ostrom rose to prominence for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics despite not having any formal training in the discipline. She is renowned for her …

Elinor Ostrom’s scholarly impact cannot be overstated. In this video, Dr. Nordman shares about the life and times of Elinor Ostrom. Ostrom’s research has shown that communities are not doomed …

Today, polycentricity has redefined the paradigm for climate governance. In this video, Dr. Nordman applies the insights of Elinor Ostrom to the contemporary challenge of climate change governance. Ostrom shifted …

Institutions refer to the rules and norms that organise social, political and economic relations. In this video, Dr. Nordman explains how Ostrom built her theory of commons management from hundreds …

Polycentricity is a key concept in Ostrom’s work. In this video, Dr. Nordman explains Ostrom’s concept of polycentricity. Ostrom’s vision of environmental governance stands in stark contrast to what we …

It is not always the case that community governance will be more effective than privatisation or government control. For instance, self-governing arrangements that require a high degree of mutual trust …

From the dozens of self-governing arrangements that she studied, Lin extracted several general principles that allow for the success of such arrangements, principles she termed as ‘design principles’. These are …

Lin, however, discovered that people were able to manage common resources on their own without the need for external intervention. She demonstrated through Nobel prize-winning field work that when people …

After 15 years of studying police departments, Lin’s next research project took the academic world by storm and won her a Nobel prize. The second research project of Lin’s that …

The reason why a polycentric system outperforms a centralised administration is because polycentricity allows for both localised and efficient public institutions. Localised public institutions in turn are beneficial because certain …

One of the common sources of environmental problems is the lack of or failure to enforce private property rights. Economists call this problem the “Tragedy of the Commons”, which is …

Lin studied water management in Southern California for her graduate research. Specifically, she studied the polycentric water governance system that had emerged in the region. In 1945, over-drafting a groundwater …

The next research project that Lin embarked on became her life’s work and the intellectual contribution she is best known for. She began to study the potential for small-scale local …

Energy production through the burning of fossil fuels was the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions, comprising 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010. Switching to renewable sources …