Property rights in conflict : wild berry-picking and the Nordic tradition of allemansrätt

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dc.contributor.authorLA MELA, Matti
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-06T20:28:09Z
dc.date.available2016-12-06T20:28:09Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractWild berries became a valuable export article in Sweden and Finland at the end of the nineteenth century. At the time, property rights over wild berries were not explicitly defined, and in both countries, proposals were made to subject the berries to the landowner. The proposals did not pass and wild berry-picking on another's land continued, as seen from today's perspective, to be available to everyone. This paper looks at the socioeconomic context of wild berry-picking, and asks whether the principle of allemansrätt – a Nordic tradition of public access to nature – played a role in why wild berries did not become private property. By focusing on the Finnish penal code debate of 1888 and the process of stabilising the property rights, the paper rejects the idea of continuity. It argues that (1) the traditional allemansrätt is debatable as a historical concept and shows how (2) the contingent political process created the conditions, and economic imagination the impetus, that wild berries were not privatised but turned into an open resource.en
dc.identifier.citationScandinavian economic history review, 2014, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 266–289en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03585522.2013.876928
dc.identifier.endpage289en
dc.identifier.issn0358-5522
dc.identifier.issn1750-2837
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.startpage266en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/44348
dc.identifier.volume62en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofScandinavian economic history reviewen
dc.subjectWild berriesen
dc.subjectAllemansrätten
dc.subjectProperty rightsen
dc.subjectFinlanden
dc.subjectSwedenen
dc.titleProperty rights in conflict : wild berry-picking and the Nordic tradition of allemansrätten
dc.typeArticleen
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