Sweden is a leading country in governance of property rights, according to global
assessments, but Swedish landowners currently argue that their forest property rights are …

Britain recently enacted a" right to roam" in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW)
2000. At first glance, CRoW appears to be a dramatic curtailment of the landowner's …

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is
free to read, download and share on Elgaronline. com. This incisive book explores the …

In a statement of which EP Thompson would surely have approved, 2 Geoffrey Elton once
wrote in a book review that 'the law offers the surest way to an understanding of the social …

This dissertation examines the character, conditions and change of peasant stratification in
early modern Sweden. Wherever and whenever one looks, one finds that resources were …

Property professors typically face some major hurdles in teaching ownership concepts. First,
we have to accustom the students to abstract conceptions of property, which seem no less …

The aim of this study is to investigate how households acted in order to create and uphold
different norms, and the effect these norms had on the construction of gender. Throughout …

Northern Europe is often seen as having a specific relation to nature. In this manuscript, the
policy and regulatory frameworks in Norway and Sweden are compared when it comes to …

Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of
'frontier thinking'as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental …

The vigorous revival of institutionalist theories and methods among economists, political
scientists, and other social scientists has prompted a broad reconsideration of how political …