Title: Agri-environmental governance and political systems in Central and Eastern Europe

Authors: Thomas Sikor

Addresses: Junior Research Group on Postsocialist Land Relations, Humboldt University Berlin, Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Abstract: This paper presents an institutional analysis of agri-environmental governance in Central and Eastern Europe conducted by way of three case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. Building upon the theory on natural resource governance as developed by Ostrom and others, the analysis focuses on the linkages between agri-environmental governance and the political system. Its results suggest that the goods supplied by agriculture reflect the combined influence of four factors: excludability and scale as key features of the supplied good, and consolidation and centralisation as factors characterising the political system.

Keywords: agriculture; environment; agri-environmental governance; political systems; state; institutional analysis; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Bulgaria; Czech Republic; Poland; natural resource governance; environmental management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJARGE.2006.009929

International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 2006 Vol.5 No.4, pp.413 - 427

Published online: 03 Jun 2006 *

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