@article{Favero:199172,
      recid = {199172},
      author = {Favero, Matteo and Gatto, Paola and Pettenella, Davide},
      title = {Common Properties and Municipalities: institutional},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2014-12-31},
      number = {1334-2016-103879},
      series = {Scandinavian Forest Economics},
      pages = {10},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {In recent historical periods, Italian Common Properties  have faced some attempts to weaken
their institutional  role, because of their assumed inability to promote  technological and
economic development in the forestry and  agricultural sectors. More recently, both national  and
regional institutional reforms led to a renewed  recognition of their position in rural
development. In  North-East Italy the Veneto Region undertook a set of  initiatives to sustain
such a policy process, and new  Common Properties, managing mainly forest and range  lands,
have been created when local citizens have been able  to demonstrate their original tenure rights
before the  Napoleonic land property reform.
However, the real  commitment to the ambitious requests of the regional law  and the actual
forest management activities carried out by  Common Properties are a matter of discussion:
contrasting  results emerged from recent surveys organized within the  EC-funded NEWFOREX
and INTEGRAL projects, with different  levels of environmental services provision.  Efficiency,
inclusivity, transparency of new Common  Properties are affected by patchy and different  local
dynamics. In some cases institutional conflicts exist  between Municipalities and Common
Properties and a better  coordination between these local institutions should be  promoted.
This paper presents the results of a comparative  analysis of motivations and concrete actions of
Common  Property leaders, collected through a semi-structured  questionnaire proposed to the
representatives of those  Common Properties located in the same areas where a recent  parallel
survey has been conducted for Municipalities. The  degree of cooperation between
Municipalities and Common  Properties is therefore assessed, trying to understand  whether
reported institutional conflicts can be considered  sporadic or more structural situations.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199172},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199172},
}