scholarly journals The commons and emergent land in Kvarken Archipelago, Finland: governing an expanding recreational resource

2018 ◽  
Vol 196 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Svels ◽  
Ulrika Åkerlund
Keyword(s):  
Home Ownership ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Resource System

In this article, we explore governance structures of the recreational landscape of Kvarken Archipelago in Western Finland, an area where shore displacement occurs due to land rise and emergent (pristine) land is continuously created. Traditionally a production landscape, of fishing and small-scale agriculture, the recreational value of the archipelago has been acknowledged. The area is a popular second home destination and was designated UNESCO World Heritage in 2006. There are roughly 10,000 second homes within the study area, of which 14% are leaseholds located on emergent land. The emergent land thus makes up a common-pool resource system where private and collective use rights overlap. This article aims to understand the implications for recreational use (second home ownership) through interviews with different local stakeholders such as municipality planners, representatives of commons, local communities, and with environmental and land survey authorities. Especially, it sets out to ask, what kinds of value are created within the recreational resource system, what power relationships within the commons steer the management of the recreational resource system, and what are the implications for recreational use of the landscape. The results show different logics of recreational resource management locally in the studied commons. Access to second homes located within the collectively owned emergent land is limited to part-owners of the commons and tend to be less commercialized and also less modernized than privately owned second home plots.

COVID-19 and Second Home Prices in Switzerland: An Empirical Insight

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-386
Author(s):  
Thomas Bieger ◽  
Robert Weinert ◽  
Aristid Klumbies
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Price Increase ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Home Prices ◽  
Transaction Prices ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Research Propositions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Insight

Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, second home ownership created several owner benefits. This paper analyses price changes of second homes during the pandemic. It derives propositions for the impact of the pandemic on the value of second homes for its owners. The contribution draws on panel data of transaction prices for second homes from Switzerland, a country with traditionally strong second home ownership, provided by Wüest Partner. The results show that there is a significant price increase for second homes – especially compared to apartments – after the start of the COVID-19 crisis. They also show that prices even in certain second-class destinations have risen significantly during the pandemic. Different research propositions are derived like that buyers might look for less crowded places in the pandemic, and the reduced benefits of intensive infrastructures during a pandemic.

scholarly journals What Can an Understanding of the Changing Small-Scale Forest Owner Contribute to Rural Studies? The Swedish Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Forest Ownership ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Production Areas

Abstract Over the centuries, Swedish rural areas have been formed in close interaction with their inhabitants and different and various uses. Based on studies, particularly of “new forest owners” in Sweden, this article illustrates how an understanding of forest and forest ownership can highlight the dynamic and shifting role of rural areas: as both rural and urban, based on both forest property and second-home ownership. It also illustrates that rural areas are not only post-productive but also continuously over time production areas, in addition to many other use patterns, and that rural areas can be areas of forest-related industrial and services growth, and thus rural growth. The article also illustrates that forest areas in Sweden, but also more broadly Fennoscandia, can be seen as areas with different habitation patterns and linkages between nature and population than what has often been described in broader rural literature.

Second Home Ownership and Sustainable Development in Northern Sweden

2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter K. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Broad Overview

Second home tourism can be considered a good option for contributing to sustainable development in rural areas (i) due to its limited negative impact on environment and host community and (ii) due to its important contribution to local service suppliers. This is particularly true when the second home is not rented but owned. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of second home ownership in peripheral parts of Sweden and to discuss the interrelationship between sustainable development and second home tourism in these areas. It is argued that a decreasing demand for second homes due to societal changes in the metropolitan areas challenges the role of second home tourism for a sustainable development. The analysis is mainly based on a unique geographical database covering more than 500,000 second homes in Sweden and providing information about their value, location and owners. Recent statistics on second home usage are used to complement the other data.

scholarly journals Rural Uncommoning

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Bidwell
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Rural Governance ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Local Telecommunications

Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications systems that are oriented by the commons can close rural connectivity gaps. This article extends insights about women's exclusion from such Community Networks (CNs) by considering ‘commoning’, or practices that produce, reproduce and use the commons and create communality. I generated data in interviews and observations of rural CNs in seven countries in the Global South and in multi-sited ethnography of international advocacy for CNs. Male biases in technoculture and rural governance limit women's participation in CNs, and women adopt different approaches to performing their communal identity while using technology. This situation contributes to detaching CNs from relations that are produced in women's commoning. It also illustrates processes that co-opt the commons in rural technology endeavours and the diverse ways commoners express their subjectivities in response.

scholarly journals Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern, Sri Lanka

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eranga Kokila Galappaththi ◽  
Fikret Berkes
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Shrimp Aquaculture ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Commons

Mapping the Commons in Istanbul

2020 ◽  
pp. 638-657
Author(s):  
Başak Ergüder
Keyword(s):  
Use Value ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
The Third ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
Infrastructure Finance ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Northern Forests ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
Privately Owned

In the study, bids for Üçüncü Köprü (The Third Bridge), Üçüncü Havalimanı (The Third Airport), and link roads in Northern Forests will be examined to map urban commons in Istanbul. Two coordinates will be followed for mapping urban commons. First coordinate is the conceptual one which regulates the differences of fundamental conceptions relating to urban commons. At this level, use value will be analyzed in terms of public benefit which is in regard to basic features of urban commons. In second coordinate, urban spaces including exchange value and privately owned such as bridges, roads, airports and highways will be analyzed in terms of infrastructure finance. The aim of the study is discussing the “tragedy of commons” within the context of investments to be made for the urban commons and bringing into question the future of urban commons upon the basis of Istanbul example.

Town and Village Greens

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Bowes
Keyword(s):  
Green Is ◽  
Public Nuisance ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Commercial Value ◽  
Recreational Use

Land which has been registered as a village green under the Commons Registration Act 1965 or Commons Act 2006, is protected from any development or use, which would interfere with the recreational use of the land by the local inhabitants. Section 12 of the Inclosure Act 1857 provides that it is a public nuisance to do a number of things to a green, including ‘interrupting the use or enjoyment of a green as a place of exercise or recreation’. Further, s 29 of the Commons Act 1876 provides that any ‘encroachment or inclosure’ of a village green is a public nuisance as well as a civil tort. As such, to have land registered as a village green represents a tremendous blight on the commercial value of the land.

Primary and secondary place of residence, the digital link and the rise of presence

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-385
Author(s):  
Philippe Bachimon ◽  
Patrick Eveno ◽  
César Gélvez Espinel
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Complementary Spaces

Purpose This paper aims to explore the gradual commercialisation of second homes in non-urban locations and identifie a spectrum that ranges from lending to rentals to home exchange. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a conceptual one based on a review of literature relating to the acquisiting and use of secondary residences or “second homes”. Findings This paper observes that the secondary residence is often the object of a material over-investment that is symbolic and mental. The owners never quite leave their main place of residence when in the secondary one. The result is not two complementary spaces, but a hybrid space made up of the interlocking of the two. This paper also concludes that digitalization has made it easier to rent a secondary residence for a short period of time, using for instance the Airbnb platform, thus making it more an object of trade than a second home. From a sustainability perspective, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to bring to the relatively rapid growth of short-term renting a halt. Further, it may encourage owners to be more psychologically and physically invested in their secondary residence, thereby contributing more to the local economy. Originality/value Few authors have considered the way digital tools can alter the relation with the secondary place of residence.

Changing patterns of conspicuous consumption: Media representations of luxury in second homes

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Walters ◽  
Neil Carr
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Second Homes ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Second Home ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Lifestyle Magazine

This article examines the potential of utilising representations of luxury in second homes to chart the changing patterns of conspicuous consumption. It is situated within a New Zealand context and based on the analysis of representations of luxury in second homes in an architecture/lifestyle magazine from 1936 to 2015. A qualitative thematic analysis was carried out on the written and visual text of 305 second home articles. The findings are divided into time periods which relate to distinct socio-cultural, political and economic events and ideologies that have influenced New Zealand society. The analysis reveals a change from ‘quiet luxury’ during the war years to the luxury of imported products, reflecting a fascination with first American and then European style in the mid-century. It also shows a change from a reputed cultural reticence to display one’s wealth to the flagrant conspicuous consumption of luxury goods and services in the 1980s which aligns with the rise of new wealth after the introduction of neoliberalism in the country. Finally, the variance between representations of luxury during recessionary times in the 1970s and 2000s demonstrates a change in attitude towards conspicuous consumption.

scholarly journals A Survey of Animal-Powered Logging in Alabama

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Toms ◽  
Mark R. Dubois ◽  
John C. Bliss ◽  
John H. Wilhoit ◽  
Robert B. Rummer
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Urban Fringe ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Average Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
Logging Industry ◽  
Harvesting Systems ◽  
Privately Owned

Abstract In a state with a very large, highly mechanized timber harvesting industry, animal-powered logging still occupies a niche in Alabama as a small-scale harvesting alternative. This article summarizes the results from a study that examined the extent of animal logging in Alabama. We investigated this topic by asking who is logging with animals, where are they working, what equipment are they using, and what do they see as the future of animal-powered logging in Alabama. To answer these questions, we conducted a telephone survey of 33 owner-operators of horse and/or mule logging operations and on-site semi-structured interviews with a subsample of survey participants. Horse and mule loggers in Alabama work mostly on nonindustrial privately owned forests. The average animal logging operation consists of three people, two animals, and a side-loading truck. Most animal loggers find their niche in Alabama's logging industry by working on small tracts, tracts with low timber volumes, and harvests that use selective thinnings. With 90% of the animal loggers in Alabama over age 40, and with 27 loggers having retired in the past 5 yr, the number of animal loggers in Alabama is expected to decline, or, at best, hold steady, over the next 10 to 20 yr. As the average area of a nonindustrial privately owned forested tract in the Southeast continues to decrease, particularly along the urban fringe, the demand for small-scale harvesting systems, including systems using animals and farm tractor-sized implements to skid logs, may increase. South. J. Appl. For. 25(1):17–24.

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