Erik Nordman is a professor of natural resources management and adjunct professor of economics at Grand Valley State University, where he studies the economic and policy dimensions of the environment, from renewable energy to urban stormwater and land conservation. A faculty affiliate of Indiana University's Ostrom Workshop and a former Fulbright scholar in Kenya, he writes about how communities govern the resources they share. His work bridges environmental science, economics, and the practical politics of the commons.
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2021
Nordman traces the life and ideas of Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics, whose fieldwork showed that communities can govern shared resources—fisheries, forests, water—without privatization or top-down control. He draws out her lessons for collective action today.
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