Historical landed commons in Greece: a governance system at risk on Astypalaia Island

Pavlos Marinos Delladetsimas, Xenia Katsigianni and Pieter Van den Broeck

Landscape Research, 2022, vol. 47, issue 6, 783-796

Abstract: Τhe paper analyses an insular community, Astypalaia in the Aegean Sea, which hosts a distinct commons institution that has acted as a governance catalyst. It has so far safeguarded the delicate balance between the development of supplementary subsistence activities (agricultural, pastoral, fisheries, and food processing-supply), community building, fair distribution, and management of landed resources, and overall landscape justice. This article unfolds the critical factors that have fostered or restrained the longevity of this Landed Commons (LCs) and reveals the emerging risks from both exogenous (international and nationwide dynamics) and endogenous (organisational structures and governance capacity) agents. The case of Astypalaia is placed within the broader debate on the role of commons in local communities, leading to significant insights into how this LCs can be revalorised by the host community establishing renewed stewardship within current socio-economic trajectories.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2021.2016665

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