Elinor Ostrom to deliver Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
2010 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Sustaining Our Natural Resources in a Rapidly Changing World
ELINOR OSTROM
Co-recipient, 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
With remarks by Senator George Mitchell (schedule permitting)
October 21, 2010 at 1pm
Wells Conference Center, University of Maine, Orono
This event is free and open to all. TICKETS ARE REQUIRED however and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. For reservations go to http://www.umaine.edu/WaterResearch/outreach/mitchell_lecture10.html
or call 207/581-3244.
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Elinor Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, an achievement that honors a lifetime of groundbreaking research, teaching, and scholarship. Her work shows how common resourcesforests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands, can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies. In particular, her work emphasizes how humans interact with ecosystems to maintain long-term sustainable resource yields.
Ostrom earned her Ph.D. in Political Science in 1965 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change at Indiana University and the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University. Honors include election as a member of the National Academy of Science in 2001.