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In Common explores the connections between humans, their environment and each other through stories told by scholars and practitioners. In-depth interviews and methods webinars explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work on commons governance, conservation and development, social-ecological resilience, and sustainability.

141: Poaching, Policy, and Participation: The Fight to Govern Wildlife Trade with Duan Biggs

57 mins; March 12, 2026

140: Forests, Stories, and the People Behind Reforestation with Lauren E. Oakes

64 hours 6 mins; March 04, 2026

139: Climate Misinformation & Disinformation with Pallavi Sethi

53 mins; January 28, 2026

138: Families, forests and carbon with Nathan Truitt

64 hours 9 mins; November 14, 2025

137: Governing for transformation towards sustainable small-scale fisheries with Fikret Berkes and Nicole Franz

83 hours 26 mins; October 31, 2025

136: Urbanization and Inequality with Sean Fox and Gregory Randolph

62 hours 48 mins; August 22, 2025

135: Relational values with Rachelle Gould

72 hours 50 mins; August 14, 2025

134: Politics of Development in South Asia with Saad Gulzar

45 mins; July 28, 2025

133: Collaborative Watershed Management with Scott Hardy

68 hours 59 mins; July 18, 2025

132: Fire and social cohesion with Nate Dominy

66 hours 59 mins; July 09, 2025

131: Green Capitalism in the Amazon with Maron Greenleaf

61 hours 44 mins; June 05, 2025

130: Sustainable tourism with Jake Kheel

54 mins; October 07, 2024

129: Tree Plantations in Pakistan with Usman Ashraf

97 hours 50 mins; September 27, 2024

FFM #6: The future of fisheries management with Christine McDaniel and Ilia Murtazashvili

54 mins; September 23, 2024

128: Environmental justice with Brendan Coolsaet

55 mins; September 04, 2024

FFM #5: Negotiating with Kerrlene Wills

54 mins; August 15, 2024

127: The Healing Power of Virtual Nature with Alex Smalley

67 hours 17 mins; July 29, 2024

126: Infrastructure for Sustainability with Marty Anderies.

66 hours 27 mins; June 17, 2024

FFM #4: Fisheries consulting with Andrew Johnson

46 mins; May 13, 2024

126: Common Boundaries: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Property with Michael Cox and colleagues

63 hours 14 mins; May 08, 2024

125: Boundary spanning with Stephen Posner

47 mins; March 19, 2024

124: Social capital and community resilience with Daniel Aldrich

58 mins; March 11, 2024

123: Co-production and creativity with Josie Chambers

58 mins; March 04, 2024

FFM #3: Mapping coastal fisheries with Paige Roberts

49 mins; February 26, 2024

122: Decolonizing Conservation with Mathew Mabele

75 hours 52 mins; February 12, 2024

FFM #2: Reality-based fisheries policy with Bubba Cook

58 mins; January 22, 2024

121: An end-of-year pod with the editors of the International Journal of the Commons

42 mins; December 31, 2023

120: Land use, agriculture and the anthropocene with Billie Turner II

61 hours 37 mins; December 11, 2023

119: The Duty to Consult with Victoria A. Bikowski

52 mins; December 04, 2023

FFM #1: Ocean policy with Elizabeth Mendenhall

65 hours 22 mins; November 20, 2023

118: Using games to teach about collective action and the commons with Eric Klopfer

79 hours 46 mins; November 13, 2023

Insight Episode #54: Dan Holland

16 mins; October 27, 2023

Insight Episode #53: Dan Brockington on the myth of fortress conservation

12 mins; October 07, 2023

Science and Practice #13: Land Conservation with Peter Stein

57 mins; October 05, 2023

117: Coral reefs and collaborative science with Joshua Cinner

54 mins; September 18, 2023

Insight Episode #52: Erin O’Donnell on the rights of nature

17 mins; September 15, 2023

Insight Episode #51: Kaitlin Cordes on coffee and commodity chains

16 mins; August 25, 2023

116: Stewardship salons and social science in the US Forest Service with Lindsay Campbell

52 mins; August 18, 2023

115: Complex landscape mosaics and the paradox of pastoral tenure with Lance Robinson

79 hours 11 mins; August 07, 2023

Science and practice #12: Nature-based solutions with Margot Clarvis

69 hours 2 mins; August 02, 2023

Science and Practice #11: Systems thinking and inclusive conservation with Shauna Mahajan

69 hours 8 mins; July 03, 2023

Science and Practice #10: The ejidos and agrarian reforms of Mexico with Gustavo Gordillo de Anda

70 hours 54 mins; May 22, 2023

Science and Practice #9: Social justice in STEM and tech with Lauren Quigley Thomas

54 mins; May 04, 2023

Insight Episode #49: Achim Schluter on privatization

8 mins; April 07, 2023

Science and Practice #8: Paying for Conservation with Eddy Niesten

64 hours 53 mins; March 27, 2023

Insight Episode #49: Mark Moritz on open property regimes in pastoral communities

19 mins; March 10, 2023

Insight Episode #49: Mark Moritz on open property regimes in pastoral communities

38 mins; February 24, 2023

114: Collaboration starts with Coffee, with Tony Sutton

50 mins; February 13, 2023

113: Conducting research on a large scale with Johan Oldekop

58 mins; February 06, 2023

Science and Practice #7: Questioning Conservation with Sarah Milne

58 mins; January 30, 2023

Insight Episode #48: Daniel Decaro on self-determination theory

13 mins; January 27, 2023

Science and Practice #6: Learning from policy failures in development economics with Soumya Balasubramanya

84 hours 36 mins; January 24, 2023

112: Reimagining narratives of death and extinction with Dr. Sarah Bezan

69 hours 47 mins; January 16, 2023

Science and Practice #5: Radical Alternatives to Development with Ashish Kothari

84 hours 49 mins; January 11, 2023

Insight Episode #47: Nejem Raheem on water rights in the New Mexico acequias

18 mins; January 06, 2023

Insight Episode #46: Arun Agrawal on top down v. bottom up governance

8 mins; December 16, 2022

111: Fisheries policy and catch shares with Dan Holland

79 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2022

IJC#10: Picking a bone with Elinor Ostrom? A conversation with Landon Yoder & Courtney Hammond Wagner

45 mins; December 05, 2022

110: Carbon markets with Danny Cullenward

79 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2022

109: Forests as pathways to prosperity with Daniel Miller

72 hours 35 mins; November 21, 2022

Insight Episode #45: Courtney Carothers on the importance of indigenous knowledge systems

9 mins; November 18, 2022

108: Localizing development with Esther Zeledon

77 hours 50 mins; November 07, 2022

107: Zoning policy with William Fischel

92 hours 26 mins; October 31, 2022

Insight Episode #44: Derek Kauneckis on watersheds and smart tech

7 mins; October 28, 2022

106: The Surrounds with AbdouMaliq Simone

63 hours 7 mins; October 24, 2022

105: The Rights of Nature with Julia Talbot-Jones

60 hours 5 mins; October 17, 2022

IJC#9: Magical realism, water and power with Valentina Fonseca Cepeda

34 mins; October 10, 2022

IJC#8: Blockchain networks as knowledge commons with Ilia Murtazashvili

34 mins; September 27, 2022

Insight Episode #43: Hillary Angelo on social imaginaries

14 mins; September 23, 2022

104: Creating Knowledge for Change with Sharachchandra Lele

62 hours 54 mins; September 19, 2022

103: Gathering tides with Mehana Blaich Vaughan

79 hours 14 mins; September 12, 2022

Insight Episode #42: Graeme Cumming on scale mismatch and mismanagement

15 mins; September 09, 2022

IJC#7: Sacred groves (or commons with a difference) with Samuel Adeyanju

35 mins; September 06, 2022

Insight Episode #41: Sara Meerow on the concept of resilience

9 mins; August 26, 2022

102: Rights for Rivers with Erin O’Donnell

86 hours 24 mins; August 22, 2022

Insight Episode #40: Bridie McGreavy on the importance of indigenous perspectives in Maine shellfish fisheries

14 mins; August 12, 2022

102: Environmental economics and conservation with Priya Shyamsundar

56 mins; August 09, 2022

101: Commoning with David Bollier

71 hours 7 mins; August 01, 2022

100: Our 100th episode!

57 mins; July 25, 2022

IJC#6: Social-ecological fit in Wisconsin lakes with Dane Whittaker

38 mins; July 18, 2022

Insight Episode #39: Kimberley Peters on the changing governance of the oceans

8 mins; July 15, 2022

099: The politics of environmental access and risk with Jesse Ribot

85 hours 20 mins; July 11, 2022

Science and Practice #3 Stories of a chronicler with Arati Kumar Rao

64 hours 22 mins; July 04, 2022

Science and Practice #2: Applying behavior science for conservation with Erik Thulin

99 hours 2 mins; June 27, 2022

Insight Episode #38: Emily Boyd on the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary training and sustainability science

12 mins; June 24, 2022

098: A biography of Water with Giulio Boccaletti

87 hours 28 mins; June 13, 2022

097: People, Science and Cross-Disciplinary Research in Conservation with Ghazala Shahabuddin

71 hours 7 mins; May 29, 2022

096: Institutional diversity and the evolution of water markets with Dustin Garrick

106 hours 52 mins; May 23, 2022

095: Agrarian reforms and the property rights gap with Mike Albertus

89 hours 44 mins; May 16, 2022

Insight Episode #37: Henrik Österblom on unsustainable science

11 mins; May 13, 2022

Science and Practice #1: Conservation and social science with Nathan Bennett

106 hours 49 mins; May 09, 2022

Insight Episode #36: Brent Loken on how food production and animal conservation are related

9 mins; May 02, 2022

094: Protected areas with Dan Brockington

81 hours 39 mins; April 25, 2022

093: Complexity and the Subaks of Bali with Steve Lansing

73 hours 50 mins; April 18, 2022

Insight Episode #35: Jessica Gephart on seafood trade discrepancies

14 mins; April 15, 2022

092: Sustainable development with Kaitlin Cordes

89 hours 17 mins; April 11, 2022

091: Marine conservation in Haiti with Jean Wiener

67 hours 32 mins; April 04, 2022

IJC#5: Guiding would-be institutional crafters with Jim Sinner

31 mins; April 01, 2022

Insight #34: Beatriz Dos Santos Dias on modeling and historical ecology

17 mins; March 30, 2022

090: Histories of disease and its links to urban planning with Aditya Ramesh

57 mins; March 23, 2022

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