Elinor Ostrom has been awarded the Nobel Prize 2009 in Economics
Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Sveriges Rijksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel along with Oliver Williamson for her analyses of economic governance, demonstrating how common property can be successfully managed by users or owners. She has not only been the first woman, but also the first economist explicitly dealing with environmental issues who has received this award.
Elinor Ostrom was 2007 keynote speaker at the conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics at the UFZ in Leipzig.
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The Department of Economics at the UFZ Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research is proud that she has been one of the keynote speakers at the Leipzig conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics in 2007. UFZ congratulates Elinor Ostrom for the reward and is glad that by this reward her work is gaining the attention that is appropriate, seen the high quality of her research, the openness with which she shares her work and supports more junior researchers, mobilizing joint efforts to move governance of natural resources in a more sustainable way.
The aims of Elinor Ostrom’s work and the aims of the Department of Economics at UFZ, i.e. to support sustainable development by linking institutional and ecological economics, coincide. So it is only natural that Elinor Ostrom’s innovative contributions to transdisciplinary work on the borders of natural and social sciences have been used and further developed by some of the researchers in this department for quite a few years already.
Felix Rauschmayer, Heidi Wittmer, Bernd Hansjürgens
Department of Economics
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Elinor Ostrom´s Lecture on the ESEE Conference 2007
Diverse Governance Arrangements for Ecological Sustainability
