Changes in Property Rights in a Common-Pool Resource, 1600 to 1850

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Larsson, Jesper
Conference:	Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action: A Tribute to Prof. Elinor Ostrom, Second Thematic Conference of the IASC
Location:	Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Conf. Date:	29 November - 1 December
Date:	2012
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8618
Sector:	History Social Organization
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	property rights commons
Abstract:	"The aim of this paper is to analyzing the development of property rights from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century in an agricultural area in upland Sweden, where the use of common-pool resources for animal husbandry were important. We will follow the transformation of the parish's forest-covered outlying land in central Sweden from open access to a communal common-property regime and finally to a common-property regime conducted on private property, i.e. the commons were converted to privately owned land but animal husbandry was still conducted as a collective action. I will discuss how these changes happened and how they affected the peasants who used the forests for grazing their animals."

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