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The Dismantling of Forest Commons in Spain

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dc.contributor.author Guadilla-Sáez, Sara
dc.contributor.author Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel
dc.contributor.author Reyes-García, Victoria
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-01T21:28:43Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-01T21:28:43Z
dc.date.issued 2017 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/10373
dc.description.abstract "In Spain there is a large tradition of obtaining natural resources from forest commons, which had been documented since the Germanic tribes invasion to the Iberian Peninsula, in the fifth century. These tribes introduced the concept of woodlands collective property in the northwest areas of the peninsula. Thorough the collective property regime, forest resources were used by local communities, a management regime that –according to some authors– resulted in a supportive and sustainable use of forest. Some centuries later, during the Christian Reconquest and due to the land concession strategy followed by medieval kings to promote the settlement of Christian population that displaced Muslims from the newly gained territories, the communal regime was generalized to other parts of the peninsula. The land privileges granted to the Christian populations consisted in common lands –including woodlands– that the new settlers, organized in village councils or concejos, could communally manage and exploit. At that time, forest commons became the most habitual type of tenure of Spanish woodlands, a land tenure type that persisted until the nineteenth century." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject forests en_US
dc.title The Dismantling of Forest Commons in Spain en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Practicing the Commons: Self-Governance, Cooperation and Institutional Change en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates 10-14 July en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Utrecht, the Netherlands en_US


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