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Balancing on an Alp: Ecological Change and Continuity in a Swiss Mountain Community

Robert McC. Netting · Cambridge University Press · 1981

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Author
Robert McC. Netting
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 9780521237437 (hardback), 9780521281973 (paperback).

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TheoryNetting argued that Törbel's villagers matched tenure to land use: communal tenure suits resources where value per unit of land and dependability of yield are low, intensification is hard and large territories or groups are needed, as on the alpine pasture; private tenure suits intensively worked land.