Dr Dario Novellino, Kent Alumnus and Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Bio-cultural Diversity in the School of Anthropology and Conservation has been awarded the the 2021 Ostrom Award for Practitioners.
The Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons was created to created to honor and develop the legacy of Elinor Ostrom and is made every two years and coincides with the IASC biennial global conferences on commons. It aims to acknowledge and promote the work of practitioners, young and senior scholars involved in the field of the commons. According with Ostrom´s large legacy the scope of the Award aims to be broad, including academic and applied work on traditional commons (forests, water bodies, pasture lands, fisheries, etc.), local commons, interlinked commons (forests and watersheds, fisheries and coastlines, etc), global commons, knowledge, cultural and virtual commons.
‘A measure of the relevance of Dario’s work is the meaningful link being established between locally grounded struggles, global advocacy and international campaign initiatives.’
Professor Elinor Ostrom, (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2009) was an exceptional academic leader who, throughout her career, had challenged the conventional vision of individuals who act only as rational utility-maximizers and are neither able to cooperate, not to create, own, or use collective goods sustainably, except under external authoritarian rule or by dividing those goods into small units and privatizing them. By demonstrating that collaboration is possible, frequent and occurs among individuals of different rationalities and in different contexts, Ostrom promoted a paradigm shift in political science and economics, as well as behavioural and social sciences in general.
‘Dr. Dario Novellino is an advocate for indigenous peoples’ and pastoralists’ rights with an academic background in social anthropology.’ they announced ‘Over the last thirty years he has shaped his existence into a coherent mission for the defence of collective rights of unprivileged communities.’
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