Institutionalization of common land property in Portugal: Tragic trends between "Commons" and "Anticommons"

Land Use Policy

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-94

  Lopes, Luis Filipe Gomes ^a   dos Santos Bento, João Manuel R ^a   Cristovão, Artur F Arede Correia ^b   Baptista, Fernando Oliveira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b Universidade de Vigo   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anticommons; Commons; Land tenure; Private property; Scale

Indexed keywords

COMMON LAND; DIACHRONISM; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNERSHIP; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PRIVATE LAND;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84879284986     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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