Pan-European Territories of Commons
= research project led by Antonio Manzoni and Jose Luis Vivero Pol, being prepared as of January 2021
Description
"We plan to to come up with a state of the art of the current food-producing common lands across all the EU member states and beyond. The idea is to generate evidence - through the cooperation of various scholars and activists across Europe to produce a first estimate of common land hectares per country and in total. There is a substantial portion of European lands that is devoted to food-producing commons, even in urban areas (estimated between 7-10%).
The expected result would be a multi-authored paper with as many contributors as possible (to increase knowledge sources and epistemic regards on commons, support legitimacy, and geographical coverage, and having a broader constituency to advocate for the food commons later on)."
Directory of Researchers
Researchers participating in the research project of 2021:
- Austria: Marianne Penker & Lisa Rail (University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources, Vienna)
- Belgium: Pieter Van der Broeck (KU Leuven)
- Bulgaria: Yanka Kazakova-Mateva (University of National and World Economy, Sofia)
- Croatia: Marin Cvitanovic (Bournemouth University, UK), Lana Slavuj Borčić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Cyprus: Ioannis Vogiatzakis & Maria Zomeni (Open University of Cyprus), Menelaos Stavrinides (Cyprus University of Technology)
- Czech Republic: Jan Vavra (University of South Boemia)
- Estonia: Lilian Pungas (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)
- Finland: Peltola Rainer (Natural Resources Institute Finland)
- France: Adrien Baysse-Lainé (CNRS Grenoble), William Loveluck (IDDRI)
- Germany: Stephen Leitheiser (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
- Greece: Christina Sakali (Ghent University)
- Hungary: Erand Llanaj (University of Debrecen), Bálint Balàzs (Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG), Anna Varga (University of Pécs)
- Ireland: Thomas van Rensburg (NUI Galway), Sean Shanagher (Maynooth University)
- Italy: Antonio Manzoni (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), Paola Gatto (University of Padua)
- Latvia: Diana Myncite (New York City College of Technology), Renata Blumberg (Montclair State University)
- Lithuania: Diana Myncite (New York City College of Technology), Renata Blumberg (Montclair State University)
- Malta: Alicia Said (University of Kent)
- Netherlands: Henk Renting (RUAF Foundation), Natasha Hulst (Schumacher Center For New Economics)
- Poland: Anna Kłoczko-Gajewska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences), Justyna Kłobukowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun), Ruta Spiewak (IRWIR PAN)