摘要：We wish to dedicate this midyear editorial and issue of Ecologyand Society to Elinor (Lin) Ostrom who died 12 June frompancreatic cancer at the age of 78 years. Lin was a pioneer in many ways and was incredibly impressivein breaking through many barriers on her way to a remarkableset of life achievements. A true pioneer in interdisciplinaryscience for sustainability, she worked in a robust andsystematic fashion with a deep and burning commitment forprogressing knowledge and understanding. One major lessonfrom Lin was that complex problems require complexsolutions, and that people can solve such conundrums.Moreover, those solutions are attainable. She used groundedscholarship that required lots of hard work to show why simplemodels such as overblown bureaucracies or moralprescriptions were not solutions to resource issues such as atragedy of the commons
