Fellow Christine Tiballi establishes a framework to support resource management on the lunar surface. Taking lessons from terrestrial governance, she proposes a lunar equivalent to support open access, adaptable environmental protocols, and unique local governance arrangements.

Meet our 2025 fellows and discover their research scopes!

The Moon is a common in the economic sense and therefore primed for polycentric governance.

Today we announce Breaking Ground, a lunar resources trust which will exist to steward and demonstrate formal and effective institutional management of lunar resources between different stakeholders.

In 2020, Open Lunar kicked off a small working group looking at the application of public choice theory and political economy scholarship to resource management in the lunar context.

A series of frameworks and conceptual tools for analysing norms on the Moon.