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Nives Dolšak

Nives Dolšak is the Stan and Alta Barer Professor in Sustainability Science, and the director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. She has also served as a visiting professor of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dolšak studies the aggregation and governance of common pool resources, including practices such as community action, social capital, market-based instruments, traditional regulatory policies, and the effects of globalization. She focuses on political and economic factors that influence the adoption of environmental policies such as the mitigation of global climate change. Her research ranges from local to international levels, including the state of Washington, the United States, Eastern and Central Europe, and the world.

Dolšak is a co-editor with Elinor Ostrom of ''The Drama of the Commons'' (2002) and ''The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation'' (2003). Provided by Wikipedia