Making the commons work: Conservation and cooperation in Ireland

Land Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 620-634

  Di Falco, Salvatore ^a,b   van Rensburg, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MODELING; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57349096705     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.84.4.620     Document Type: Article

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