Contested Common Land: environmental governance, law and sustainable land management c.1600-2006
An examination of the management of common land since the 17th century using historical methods of enquiry, and an examination of modern governance mechanisms and the emergence of sustainable land management as a discrete objective for the future of our Commons.
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arts-humanities.net
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Professor Chris Rodgers
Start date
Friday, December 1, 2006
Completion date
Friday, January 1, 2010
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The research project placed the sustainable management of commons in historical perspective by using four case studies to illustrate the changing patterns of land use, differing management principles and regulatory mechanisms applied to common land from c.1600 to the modern day. These were drawn from Commons in: Cumbria - Eskdale, North Norfolk - Brancaster and Thornham, North Yorkshire - Ingleton, Powys - Elan and Claerwen Valleys.