Common property and common space: community, property rights and the environment

Christopher Rodgers (1)

1 Université de Newcastle

The impact of the new self regulatory powers in the Commons Act 2006 can only be interpreted using a dynamic model of property rights that defines property by reference to its ability to unlock either a stream of benefits or access to a resource. If a registered common right is not able to unlock economic benefits for its owner, because its exercise is prohibited by the management rules introduced by a commons council, then it will cease to be a property "right" in this fuller sense, even though (being registered) it will remain a legally recognised right. The role of property rights as a tool for organising the management of the commons will also be commensurately reduced in those cases where commons councils are established and assume power to regulate land use by appropriators.

Le droit anglais et gallois offre un terrain d'observation particulièrement utile pour la notion d'espace rural commun (common rural space). Le Commons Act de 2006 a ainsi réformé en profondeur les droits de propriété privée.

Mots clés: Agricultural development; Commons; England; Environment; Property rights

Mots clés: Développement rural; Biens communs; Angleterre; Environnement; Droit de propriété

Domaines: Droit

Christopher Rodgers. Common property and common space: community, property rights and the environment. L'accès à la terre et ses usages : variations internationale Access to land and its use: Differing international approaches, Jun 2009, Nantes, France. ⟨hal-00664859⟩