Horse riding posing challenges to the Swedish Right of Public Access

Elgåker, Hanna; Pinzke, Stefan; Lindholm, Gunilla

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.06.005

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“…Among agricultural‐related industries, according to Elgåker (), the horse industry sector is part of a larger shift towards a postproductive rural landscape. The horse industry has features that are similar throughout the western world, but its development is closely tied to lifestyle changes related to possibilities created by the local social, economic, and land use conditions (Elgåker, Pinzke, Nilsson, & Lindholm, ; Liljenstolpe, ; Mather, Hill, & Nijnik, ). Elgåker et al () further argued that horse‐related activities could be labelled as a business, a kind of land use with certain economic conditions, or a type of outdoor lifestyle outside the traditional agricultural economic system enabled by public use of common assets.…”

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“…The horse industry has features that are similar throughout the western world, but its development is closely tied to lifestyle changes related to possibilities created by the local social, economic, and land use conditions (Elgåker, Pinzke, Nilsson, & Lindholm, ; Liljenstolpe, ; Mather, Hill, & Nijnik, ). Elgåker et al () further argued that horse‐related activities could be labelled as a business, a kind of land use with certain economic conditions, or a type of outdoor lifestyle outside the traditional agricultural economic system enabled by public use of common assets. Based on locational changes and the current environmental and economic challenges, the horse industry presents a good example of an industry in which small businesses need to transcend the boundaries between innovation activities and sustainability management to move toward open sustainability.…”

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“…Therefore, they need to open up their innovation activities as part of sustainability management. The research related to social and economic development among horse industry operators is lower than that on development within agriculture and rural society (Elgåker et al, ; Kolstrup, Lundqvist, & Pinzke, ; Lobao & Meyer, ). Therefore, the horse industry provides an interesting and important context for exploring the understudied concept of open sustainability.…”

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Sustainable development: Implications and definition for open sustainability

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This study deals with sustainable development from a triple bottom-line perspective, including the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Specifically, this study investigates whether various sustainability factors are related to small businesses' intentions to exploit open sustainability, which is described as meeting sustainability challenges through the exploitation of internal and external initiatives. Empirical data were collected from 139 companies. The results show that some factors from all three sustainability dimensions affect companies' intentions to exploit open sustainability, while company size and operations type do not influence the use of open sustainability.As an emerging concept, the definition of open sustainability is presented.

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Sustainable development: Implications and definition for open sustainability

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“…Another example was the debate surrounding berry harvesting, which centred around the right of public access (alle-mansr€ atten) for everybody to pick wild berries as a common shared resource in privately owned forests; this has recently caused concern due to an influx of foreign professional berry harvesters (La Mela 2014; St ens and Sandstr€ om 2013). The right of public access is also put under pressure by entrepreneurs in the tourism industry, such as those operating horse riding tours (Elgåker et al 2012). These conflicts in Sweden stem from two issues: first, the contradictory conceptions that exist concerning property (notably, ownership and the right of public access) and secondly, the ideological differences that exist in regards to whether natural resources should be regulated by the government.…”

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Potential conflicts between ownership rights and environmental protection: Swedish undergraduate students’ views

Torbjörnsson

Lundholm

2019

Environmental Education Research

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This study examines the perspectives of Swedish undergraduate students regarding potential conflicts between ownership rights and environmental protection. Conceptions of 'ownership' are relevant in relation to the environment and environmental protection as they can highlight a more transboundary relationship between the individual/society and nature. Students studying economics, law and political science were chosen because of their potential future transformative roles as decision makers and policy makers. Content analysis was employed to examine the written responses of 747 students from seven different universities to the open-ended survey question: Can ownership rights and environmental protection come into conflict? Students' responses were measured twice: at the very beginning of the first semester and then again at the end of the semester. The results show that students expressed a dominant view of ownership in terms of individual ownership, and associations to collective ownership were largely absent. In regards to the potential conflict between ownership rights and environmental protection, most students perceived such a conflict, and it was more common for the environment to be conceptualised as the losing party rather than the landowner. More research is needed regarding how teaching and instruction can deal with the potential conflicts between ownership (private/corporate/governmental) and environmental protection.

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“…Elgåker et al (2010) showed that horses in Sweden nowadays tend to be concentrated in densely populated areas rather than in farming regions. Thus, while the total number of horses may still be far below the post-World War II level, grazing land for horses in peri-urban areas may soon become scarce, creating the potential for conflicts between outdoor riders and landowners, and posing new challenges for policymakers (Elgåker, Pinzke, Nilsson, & Lindholm, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%