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- Granér, Staffan, 1961, et al.
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Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve 1895-2000
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Because of a growing population and industrialization, total pollution levels in many water-courses around the world have increased considerably for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the last few decades, however, the trend of increasing water pollution has been turned in many industrialized countries, delinking economic growth from environmental pollution. This is in essence one aspect of what many environmental economists call an ‘environmental Kuznets curve’. The research question of this project is why there is such a pattern to water quality in many countries? Much previous literature on the topic studies only the positive impact of environmental legislation. This study, focusing upon the case of the river Göta in Sweden, undertakes a more thorough analysis, including other crucial factors as well such as industrial transformation and decline, as well as stakeholder associations. The project utilizes a very long series of data on the water quality in the river Göta, covering more than 100 years of data for crucial indicators, in order to establish what factors were contributing to reducing levels of pollution. Analyzing the driving factors of this ‘Environmental Kuznets Curve’ can give us crucial insights into how a sustainable development might be achieved in the future.
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- Granér, Staffan, 1961
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Hernando de Soto and the mystification of capital
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Ingår i: Eurozine (Webbpublikation).
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a critique of Hernando de Soto's bestselling The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Staffan Granér finds de Soto's methods unreliable and his theories over-simplified. De Soto claims that if "dead capital" were legalized, it would elevate the poor out of poverty. In reality, de Soto's formalization of the economy aims to protect rights of ownership and ease the way for free market transactions, not to create regulations and a social safety net. "By maintaining that poverty can be solved simply by giving all of the poor formal rights of ownership", says Granér, "de Soto pulls a mystifying veil over what are in fact real social discrepancies."
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Per Nyström som historiker
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Ingår i: Per Nyström - motor i 1900-talets svenska sociala och samhällsekonomiska utveckling. - Göteborg. ; 7, s. 17-32
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Samhävd och rågång. Om egendomsrelationer, ägoskiften och marknadsintegration i en värmländsk skogsbygd 1630-1750.
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- THY NEIGHBOURS PROPERTY. Property Relations, Enclosures and Market Integration in a Forest District of Central Sweden 1630-1750. Written in Swedish with a Summary in English. The development towards more exclusive and private agrarian property rights has been considered one of the most important and crucial aspects of the modernisation process. Several theoretical models have been suggested to explain and analyse this development. Among them, two not necessarily incompatible, approaches can be identified. The neo-institutional property rights approach focuses on economising behaviour among individual agents in relation to factors such as enforcement and transaction costs, relative prices, market integration and contracts. The more sociological or class based property relations approach focuses on factors such as power structure, distribution, exploitation and social networks. The aim of this thesis is to carry out a local empirical study of this development in a critical dialogue with these theoretical models. The investigated area is Fryksdals härad (hundred) in Värmland County, a forest and ironproducing district in central Sweden. Local court rolls constitute the main sources of the thesis The region experienced a considerable economic transformation during the investigated period. The regulation and privatisation of access to commonly controlled woodlands and pastures as well as the reallocation of scattered strips on infields plays an important role. Immigration, population growth, colonisation and rapid establishing of iron mills in the 1690´s, contributed to a commercialisation of economic relations in general, and an increased scarcity of commonly managed resources such as wood, charcoal and waterpower. This development puts strains on the traditional local arrangements of rights over land and natural resources. A significant part of the legal cases reflects disputes and agreements concerning rights to village commons and infield strips. In the beginning of the period these cases are dominated by inter-village relationships concerning demarcations and common rights. During the investigated time, intra-village relationships concerning both commons and scattered strips become more frequent. The long-run result of this process could be described as a kind of enclosure where communal and socially embedded rights were gradually redefined.
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