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Land tenure type as an underrated legal constraint on the conservation management of coastal dunes: examples from Ireland
Author(s) -
McKenna John,
MacLeod Michael,
Cooper Andrew,
O'Hagan Anne Marie,
Power James
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00635.x
Subject(s) - leasehold estate , land tenure , statutory law , constraint (computer aided design) , business , public ownership , natural resource economics , environmental resource management , economics , geography , public economics , agriculture , political science , law , mechanical engineering , archaeology , engineering
Legal factors play an underrated but significant role as constraints on conservation management. In this paper, based on observations in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, mode of land tenure is assessed to determine its influence on the conservation management of coastal dunes. The tenure types considered are: private ownership, corporate private ownership, tenancy, secured tenancy, leasing, common (joint) ownership, uncertain ownership, public ownership and its subset military ownership. It is suggested that multiple private ownership is least likely to favour effective conservation management. Public ownership by a statutory conservation authority and corporate private ownership by a conservation‐orientated NGO are regarded as the optimum tenure types for conservation management of coastal dunes.