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Making the commons work: conservation and cooperation in ireland

Di Falco, S.
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van Rensburg, T. M.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/11185
 https://doi.org/10.13025/28808
Publication Date
2008-09-12
Keywords
collective action, resource-management, land, agriculture, tragedy, policy, appropriation, institutions, biodiversity, provision
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Di Falco, S. van Rensburg, T. M. (2008). Making the commons work: conservation and cooperation in ireland. Land Economics 84 (4), 620-634
Abstract
Commonage represents land held under common property that incorporates a system of local cooperative arrangements and rides to conserve and manage the Irish uplands. We analyze the institutional and economic factors that 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 while (3) farm financial support through agri-environment measures positively affects commonage conservation and encourages cooperation between formers.
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University of Wisconsin Press
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