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institutionalisation of property rights in Albanian and Romanian biodiversity conservation

institutionalisation of property rights in Albanian and Romanian biodiversity conservation

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Date of publication
December 2009
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201600189762
Pages
57-73

This article examines the institutionalisation of property rights by way of two case studies on biodiversity conservation in Albania and Romania. The analysis pays particular attention to local level negotiations which occur when local actors make use of concrete resources and engage in discussions about their appropriate use. In both Albania and Romania, national parks are the object of intense negotiations, as local people contest the associated restrictions on their property rights to agricultural land and forest. The outcomes of the negotiations are varied, reflecting the influence of locally specific contexts. These results indicate that legal acts alone do not institutionalise property rights, as those are negotiated simultaneously among various kinds of actors at multiple, interrelated levels. Institutionalisation works through local negotiations about concrete resource practices and their associated justifications.

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Stahl, Johannes
Thomas Sikor
Stefan Dorondel

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