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Author: Christopher P. Rodgers (Professor of Law, Head of School, Law School, Newcastle University, UK.) ,
Eleanor Straughton (Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK.) ,
Angus J.L. Winchester (Senior Lecturer, History, Lancaster University.) ,
Margherita Pieraccini (Lecturer, Law, University of Bristol, UK.)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781849710947
ISBN 10: 1849710945
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 27 October 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Chris Rodgers and his co-authors have brought together important research...They show that modernizing common law institutions that evolved over time can change ownership rights and duties in unexpected ways. For sustainability questions we have to study more systems over time as this important collection of studies illustrates.' Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USA, and joint Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2009 'Contested Common Land exemplifies collaborative, multi-disciplinary landscape research at its finest: field and archival, contemporary and historical, comparative and local, scholarly and publically engaged. Both rigorous and imaginative, the book shines a new light on English and Welsh commons and the landscape more widely. The project team reveal their rich and remarkably resilient history as a working country in the face of periodical challenges, with the capacity for a new lease of life in a wider, international, world concerned with sustainability. With complementary expertise, the authors show that common land is a topical as well as traditional place, a diverse and dynamic social and environmental resource, a repository of complex uses and values, a living landscape that demands careful cultural appreciation as well as effective conservation and practical management.' Stephen Daniels, Director, AHRC Landscape and Environment programme, UK
'Chris Rodgers and his co-authors have brought together important research...They show that 'modernizing' common law institutions that evolved over time can change ownership rights and duties in unexpected ways. For sustainability questions we have to study more systems over time as this important collection of studies illustrates.' Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USA, and joint Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2009 'Contested Common Land exemplifies collaborative, multi-disciplinary landscape research at its finest: field and archival, contemporary and historical, comparative and local, scholarly and publically engaged. Both rigorous and imaginative, the book shines a new light on English and Welsh commons and the landscape more widely. The project team reveal their rich and remarkably resilient history as a working country in the face of periodical challenges, with the capacity for a new lease of life in a wider, international, world concerned with sustainability. With complementary expertise, the authors show that common land is a topical as well as traditional place, a diverse and dynamic social and environmental resource, a repository of complex uses and values, a living landscape that demands careful cultural appreciation as well as effective conservation and practical management.' Stephen Daniels, Director, AHRC Landscape and Environment programme, UK
Author Information
Chris Rodgers is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. Eleanor Straughton is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Lancaster University, UK. Angus Winchester is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University. Margherita Pieraccini is lecturer in law at the University of Exeter, UK.
