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Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Ireland

Di Falco, Salvatore, van Rensburg, T.M. (2008) Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Ireland. Land Economics, 84 (4). pp. 620-634. ISSN 0023-7639. (doi:10.3368/le.84.4.620) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:11147)

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Abstract

Commonage represents land held under common property which incorporates a system of local cooperative arrangements and rules to conserve and manage the Irish uplands. However, there are concerns that recent agricultural and rural policies may have negatively affected commonage governance and conservation. We analyse the institutional and economic factors which influence the behavior of commonage farmers under a common property regime using a recursive bivariate probit model. Results show that (1) cooperation has a positive and important impact on commonage conservation; (2) agricultural policies by way of livestock premia increases the level of degradation; whilst (3) farm financial support through agri-environment measures positively affects commonage conservation and encourages cooperation between farmers.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.3368/le.84.4.620
Uncontrolled keywords: agricultural policy; common property resource; land management; modeling; nature conservation
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use)
Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: Salvatore Di-Falco
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2011 16:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:49 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/11147 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Di Falco, Salvatore.

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