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High Nature Value Farming in Europe
This landmark volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject and outlines how the concept can be applied in 35 European states. It is richly illustrated throughout with colour photographs, maps and figures.
Natural England Publications Catalogue
Natural England's Access to Evidence catalogue. All of their records are free, and unless otherwise stated, they are only available as a PDF download.
Trends in Common Grazing (2010)
This report fills a critical gap in policy analysis by providing a more detailed, updated, and geographically accurate understanding of common grazing lands in Scotland. It also presents an overview of the social and economic state of common grazing in Scotland in 2010.
Common Land Research
The Contested Common Land project was a collaborative project between Newcastle Law School, Lancaster University History Department and the Informatics Research Institute at Newcastle University. It aimed to examine the environmental governance of common land from an interdisciplinary, historical and contemporary perspective.
The project has now drawn to a close but there is a website which serves as an archive of the project.
Contested Common Land (Book)
This book makes a major contribution to common pool resource studies. It offers a new perspective on the sustainable governance of common resources with multiple, often conflicting, uses.
Common Agricultural Policy Reform (2013)
A joint policy document proposing a system of payments to promote a model for more environmentally and economically sustainable farming in Europe.
Towards a Sustainable Future for our Nation's Common Land
The four-year Our Common Cause project was designed to be a focus for concerted and collaborative action. It signified a step-change from talking, convening and championing, to a time of action filled with demonstrating, delivering and empowering.
A Common Purpose: A Guide to Community Engagement for those Contemplating Management on Common Land
This 2012 document provides guidance concerning community engagement and consensus building for those contemplating works on common land. Mainly written for lowland commons with no active graziers, where there is a range of stakeholders with no legal interest but a strong emotional interest—in recreation, natural history or archaeology, for instance. The principles can also be applied to actively grazed upland commons.
Better Outcomes on Upland Commons (2015 Report)
This report presents data from five upland commons across England to draw out the characteristics of the successful delivery of multiple outcomes over the same area of land.
Defra / Natural England- Government Guidance on Common Land
Government guidance on managing common land, including how to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
Learning visit to northern Spain by farmers from Cumbria and Dartmoor
This feasibility study was commissioned by the Foundation for Common Land to explore ways to create collaboration between commoners following a learning visit to some of Spain’s commons in 2010.