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Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Common Property Resources. The Case of Irish Commonage

Van Rensburg, Thomas
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/953
 https://doi.org/10.13025/22992
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2007
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Cooperation, Common property resources, Grazing, Agricultural policies, Economics
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Van Rensburg, T. M.(2007) "Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Common Property Resources. The Case of Irish Commonage" (Working Paper No. 0124) Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway
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. 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 increase the level of degradation; whilst (3) farm financial support through agri-environment measures positively affects commonage conservation and encourages cooperation between farmers.
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National University of Ireland, Galway
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