Complexities in Collective Approaches: Traditional Management and Agri-Environmental Contracting in the Pyrenees (France) and Northwest England (UK)

This research note explains and compares the relevance of collective approaches to land management in two case study areas of France and the UK. It provides a background understanding for interested professionals, practitioners and academics, and may inform national and European policy targeting sustainable uplands management. In outlining ‘collective approaches’, we discuss the collaboration that occurs as part of the traditional management and governance
of these upland landscapes, as well as the tensions that arise when these practices are coupled with the formal collective agri-environmental contracts which also exist in these areas