Dire necessity or mere opportunity? Recurring commercialization of peat exploited from raised bog commons in the Low Countries

Traditional commons scholarship, and in particular common-pool resource (CPR) theory, argues that historical commons institutions were autonomous, little influenced by either markets or states, and that commercialisation and sustainable collective use of common-pool resources were incompatible. This paper examines to what extent this view holds true. It does so by analysing historical sources on two local cases of peat commercialisation from raised bog commons in the early modern Low Countries: the Bakelse gemeint in the Peel region, and the commune de Xhoffraix in the Hautes Fagnes. The signi... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Paulissen, Maurice
Van Beek, Roy
Nekrassoff, Serge
Huijbens, Edward
Spek, Theo
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Paulissen , M , Van Beek , R , Nekrassoff , S , Huijbens , E & Spek , T 2021 , ' Dire necessity or mere opportunity? Recurring commercialization of peat exploited from raised bog commons in the Low Countries ' , International Journal of the Commons , vol. 15 , no. 1 , pp. 100-118 . https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1054
Schlagwörter: commercialisation / commons / early modern period / institutions / marketisation / peatlands / the Netherlands / Belgium / common-pool resources / common-pool resource institutions
Sprache: Englisch
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