Angling policy and property rights in France : an economic approach

Diffusion du document : INRA Unité d'Economie et Sociologie rurales 4 Allée Adolphe Bobierre CS 61103 35011 Rennes cedex (FRA)Ronald Coase has shown that well-defined property rights and the absence of transaction costs ensure that bargaining can lead to efficient environment allocation. In France, as in most developed countries, fishing rights are well-defined and belong to land-owners. However in many cases these rights are traditionally given for free to anglers associations (AAPPMA). AAPPMA are the basic institutions in charge of angling management in France. In a first part we describe how private fishing rights are institutionally turned into public goods. This is the basis of the French democratic angling rule : fishing "everywhere, for everyons and at low cost".In a second part we analyze the economic drawbacks of foregone property rights. Two main external effects arise from the public nature of recreational fishing in France. First we deal with externalities between anglers, known as the "tragedy of the comrnons". Then we describe the extemal effects between land owners (mostly farmers) and anglers. This leads to pollution and loss of environmental services

Community involvement and the revitalization of Birgu

In this paper, I will focus on the role played by the community and the Local Council in Birgu, Malta in the regeneration of the locality. When the funds allocated by central government did not facilitate the rehabilitation of the area, the community had to come up with alternative plans to transform the locale in which they live primarily for the benefit of the inhabitants. The concomitant effect was that this started attracting visitors. The success of this plan however depended on the successful consultation between community members and its leaders at all stages of any project taken on board. The data for this presentation derived from an ethnographic study of Cottonera area in the last four years, interviews with community leaders, as well as the perusal of reports, newspaper articles and statistics relating to this topic.peer-reviewe

Towards a contemporary social care ‘prevention narrative’ of principled complexity: An integrative literature review

Prevention has become increasingly central in social care policy and commissioning strategies within the United Kingdom (UK). Commonly there is reliance on understandings borrowed from the sphere of public health, leaning on a prevention discourse characterised by the 'upstream and downstream' metaphor. Whilst framing both structural factors and responses to individual circumstances, the public health approach nonetheless suggests linearity in a cause and effect relationship. Social care and illness follow many trajectories and this conceptualisation of prevention may limit its effectiveness and scope in social care. Undertaken as part of a commissioned evaluation of the Social Services and Wellbeing Act (2014) Wales, a systematic integrative review was conducted to establish the key current debates within prevention work, and how prevention is conceptually framed, implemented and evaluated within the social care context. The databases Scopus, ASSIA, CINAHL and Social Care Online were initially searched in September 2019 resulting in 52 documents being incorporated for analysis. A further re-run of searches was run in March 2021, identifying a further 14 documents, thereby creating a total of 66. Predominantly, these were journal articles or research reports (n = 53), with the remainder guidance or strategy documents, briefings or process evaluations (n = 13). These were categorised by their primary theme and focus, as well as document format and research method before undergoing thematic analysis. This highlighted the continued prominence of three-tiered, linear public health narratives in the framing of prevention for social care, with prevention work often categorised and enacted with inconsistency. Common drivers for prevention activity continue to be cost reduction and reduced dependence on the care system in the future. Through exploring prevention for older people and caregivers, we argue for an approach to prevention aligning with the complexities of the social world surrounding it. Building on developments in complexity theory in social science and healthcare, we offer an alternative view of social care prevention guided by principles rooted in the everyday realities of communities, service users and caregivers

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