[PDF] Our Common Land eBook

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Our Common Land by Octavia Hill is an essay in favor of the regulation of public areas and the various laws involving common spaces shared by the citizens of England. Excerpt: "Probably few persons who have a choice of holidays select a Bank holiday, which falls in the spring or summer, as one on which they will travel, or stroll in the country, unless, indeed, they live in neighborhoods very far removed from large towns. Every railway station is crowded; every booking office thronged; every seat—nay, all standing room—is occupied in every kind of public conveyance; the roads leading out of London for miles are crowded with every description of the vehicle—van, cart, chaise, gig—drawn by every size and sort of donkey, pony, or horse; if it is a dusty day, a great dull unbroken choking cloud of dust hangs over every line of the road."

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108024580

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This book, published in 1877, sets out Hill's views on helping poor city dwellers improve their quality of life.

Author : Christopher P. Rodgers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1136537740

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This innovative and interdisciplinary book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources, grounded in contemporary and archival research on the common lands of England and Wales - an important common resource with multiple, and often conflicting, uses. It encompasses ecologically sensitive environments and landscapes, is an important agricultural resource and provides public access to the countryside for recreation. Contested Common Land brings together historical and contemporary legal scholarship to examine the environmental governance of common land from c.1600 to the present day. It uses four case studies to illustrate the challenges presented by the sustainable management of common property from an interdisciplinary perspective - from the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, North Norfolk coast and the Cambrian Mountains. These demonstrate that cultural assumptions concerning the value of common land have changed across the centuries, with profound consequences for the law, land management, the legal expression of concepts of common 'property' rights and their exercise. The 'stakeholders' of today are the inheritors of this complex cultural legacy, and must negotiate diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying goal: a secure and sustainable future for the commons. The book also has considerable contemporary relevance, providing a timely contribution to discussion of strategies for the implementation of the Commons Act of 2006. The case studies position the new legislation in England and Wales within the wider context of institutional scholarship on the governance principles for successful common pool resource management, and the rejection of the 'tragedy of the commons'.

Author : Octavia Hill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780483205611

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Excerpt from Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays) Practical use of a holiday to hundreds of our people, how much intense enjoyment the day gives! How large a part of this enjoyment is unmixed good! And the evil is kept in check very much. We may see the quiet figure of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John D. Leshy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 030023578X

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The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.

Author : Richard William Judd
Publisher :
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674145818

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According to this innovative study, the conservation movement that eventually took hold throughout America had its roots among the communitarian ethic of New England countryfolk, rather than urban intellectuals or politicians. Judd tells us that ordinary people, struggling to define and redefine the morality of land and resource use, contributed immensely to America's conservation legacy. 3 maps. 24 photos.