Building on research that considers commons through the practices which produce and maintain them—commoning—this article analyzes how privately owned front and backyards participate in urban commons. Through ethnographic research in three
neighborhoods of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the article shows how these commons are made in two key registers: through yards as shared territories and through everyday practices of sharing plants across individual yards. The article’s central claim is that yards
and the everyday practices which take place in and through them constitute one nodal point in the making of urban commons. In so doing, logics of private property come to be interwoven with logics of commoning. By finding a diverse range of common lives of yards
, this article adds to emerging conversations about the nature of urban commons.
Effects of the Common Agricultural Price Policy on the Third World
The paper analyses the effects of the Common Agricultural Price Policy (CAPP) on the less developed countries (Idcs) and aims at answering the controversial question whether the Idcs are gaining or losing welfare due to the CAPP. - (L'A.).
Biodiversity and extinction : the importance of being common
Despite the general neglect of common species, their importance in shaping many fundamental patterns in biodiversity and macroecology is becoming increasingly apparent. In this paper the A. selectively reviews some recent advances in understanding
Diverse commentary from seven different authors on the idea of the buffalo commons which seeks to turn back the Northern Plains, espacially in the Dakotas, to grazing American bison for both conservational and economic reasons. - (DWG)
Highly erratic spatial variability of soil-pH on Iping Common West Sussex. A Discussion
Discussion sur l'article de W. E. CULLING : highly erratic spatial variability of soil pH on Iping Common West Sussex, paru dans Catena 13, 81-98 et réponse de l'auteur.
Against the wind : on reintroducing commons law in Northern Norway
Common land ; Local government ; Modernization ; Mountain ; Norway ; Resource management ; Rural community
sympathy for other institutional solutions, the answers can be elusive. Sandberg reviews the political struggle over the reintroduction of Commons Law for Mountain Areas in Northern Norway. The special history of Finnmark, the lands of the nomadic Sami
Refiguring geography: parish maps of common ground
The Parish Maps Project, initiated by the environment and arts group Common Ground, raises questions around the social role of mapping and the production of local knowledge. The work and philosophy of Common Ground are introduced and the key themes