Opportunity? recurrent peat commercialisation from raised bog in the early modern low countries

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• who: Belgium and colleagues from the Wageningen University, The have published the research: Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog in the Early Modern Low Countries, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors demonstrate that long-term use of common-pool resources could go together with a moderate degree of commercialisation. This study has highlighted a largely overlooked category of historical peat exploitation, namely market-oriented extraction from common lands by commoners.
• how: This paper discusses a hitherto largely overlooked third way of peat exploitation smallscale market-oriented peat extraction from common lands . . .
  

   

  

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