A bibliography of texts useful for researching the history of common land in England and Wales.  The list includes general texts on common land use, cultural and agrarian history, and preservation; texts which describe specific regions or commons; and texts which include evidence of manorial governance and/or bylaws. 

Aitchison, J. W. (1990) ‘The commons and wastes of England and Wales 1958-1989’, Area 22 (3), pp. 272-7

Aitchison J. and Gadsden G.S.D. (1992) ‘Common Land’ in W. Howarth and C. P. Rodgers (eds), Agriculture Conservation and Land Use: law and policy issues for rural areas, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 165-185

Aldred, D. H. (1990) Cleeve Hill: the history of the common and its people, Stroud: Alan Sutton

Allen, R. (1997) ‘The battle for the common: politics and populism in mid-Victorian Kentish London’, Social History, 22 (1), pp. 61-77

Allison, K. J. (1957) ‘The sheep-corn husbandry of Norfolk in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’, Agricultural History Review 5, pp. 12-30

Anon. (1720) The Law of Commons and Commoners or a Treatise shewing the Original and Nature of Common, 2nd edition, London

Ault, W. O. (1960) ‘Village assemblies in medieval England’, Album Helen Maud Cam, i. pp. 13-35.  Louvain: Studies Presented to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions XXIII

Ault, W. O. (1965) Open Field Husbandry and the Village Community: a study of agrarian by-laws in medieval England, Philadelphia:  Transactions of American Philosophical Society, new ser. 55, pt.7.

B[anks], R. W. (1880) ‘The Grange of Cwmtoyddwr’, Archaeologia Cambrensis 4th ser. XI, pp. 30-50.

Balderston, R. R., & M. (n.d.), Ingleton: Bygone and Present, Skipton: Simpkin & Marshall

Batterick, E. (1987) Guardian of the Lakes: A History of The National Trust in the Lake District from 1946, Kendal: Westmorland Gazette

Birtles, S. (1998) ‘The impact of commons registration: a Norfolk study’, Landscape History 20, pp. 83-97

Birtles, S. (1999) ‘Common land, poor relief and enclosure: the use of manorial resources in fulfilling parish obligations 1601-1834’, Past and Present 165, pp. 74-106

Blackstone, W. (1792) Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 2 available online at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blackstone.asp

Bonfield, L. (1996) ‘What did English villagers mean by “customary law”?’, in Z. Razi and R. Smith (eds), Medieval Society and the Manor Court. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 103-16

Bowden, M., Brown, G. and Smith, N. (2009) An Archaeology of Town Commons in England: ‘A very fair field indeed’, Swindon: English Heritage

Brown, G. (2009) Herdwicks: Herdwick sheep and the English Lake District, Kirkby Stephen: Hayloft

Clayden, P. (2003) Our common land: the law and history of common land and village greens, Henley-on-Thames, Open Spaces Society

Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust (n.d.) ‘The Making of the Elan Valley Landscape’ 

Cosgrove, D. and Daniels, S. (eds) (1988) The iconography of landscape: essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Cousins, J. (2009) Friends of the Lake District: the early years, Lancaster: Centre for North West Regional Studies

Cowell, B. (2002) ‘The Commons Preservation Society and the campaign for Berkhamsted Common, 1866-70’, Rural History 13 (2), pp. 145-61

Cunningham, W. (1910) ‘Common Rights at Cottenham and Stretham in Cambridgeshire’, Camden Miscellany XII (Camden Society, 3rd series, volume XVIII), pp. 169-296

Davies, E. (1980) ‘Hafod, Hafoty and Lluest: their distribution, features and purpose’, Ceredigion 9 (1), pp. 1-41.

Davies, W. (1815) General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales Volume I, London

De Moor, M., Shaw-Taylor, L. and Warde, P. (eds) (2002) The Management of Common Land in North West Europe, c. 1500-1850, Turnhout: Brepols

de Soissons, Maurice (1993) Brancaster Staithe: the story of a Norfolk fishing village, Brancaster: Woodthorpe Publishing

Dilley, R. S. (1973) ‘Common land in Cumbria, 1500-1850’, MPhil. thesis, University of Cambridge

Dilley, R. S. (1991) ‘Agricultural Change and Common Land in Cumberland 1700-1850’, Ph.D thesis, McMaster University.

Done, A. and Muir, R. (2001) ‘The Landscape History of Grouse Shooting in the Yorkshire Dales’, Rural History 12(2), pp. 195-210

Everitt, A. (2000) ‘Common land’, in J. Thirsk (ed.), The English Rural Landscape, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 210-35

Fleming, A. (1998) Swaledale: Valley of the Wild River, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Fraser, C. M. and Emsley, K. (eds) (1977) Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield Vol. I (1639-40), Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society

French, H. R. (2003) ‘Urban common rights, enclosure and the market: Clitheroe Town Moors, 1764-1802’, Agricultural History Review, 51(1), pp. 40-68

Gadsden G. D. (1988) The Law of Commons, London: Sweet and Maxwell

Gardner, A. (1942) Britain’s Mountain Heritage and its Preservation as National Parks, London: Batsford

Getzler, J. (1997) ‘Judges and hunters: law and economic conflict in the English countryside, 1800-60’, in C. Brooks and M. Lobban (eds), Communities and Courts in Britain 1150-1900, London: Hambledon, pp. 199-228.

Hallam, H. E. (1963) ‘The fen bylaws of Spalding and Pinchbeck’, Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society 10, pp. 40-56.

Hardin, G. (1968) ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, Science 162, pp1243-8.

Harrison, C. (1997) ‘Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England’, in C. Brooks and M. Lobban (eds), Communities and Courts in Britain 1150-1900, London: Hambledon, pp. 43-59

Hart, W. H. and Lyons, P. A. (eds) (1884-93) Cartularium Monasterii de Ramseia, Rolls Series 79 (3 vols).

Healey, J. (2012) ‘The political culture of the English commons, c1550-1650′, Agricultural
History Review 60 (2) pp. 266-87.

Hill, C. (ed.) (1973) Winstanley: ‘The Law of Freedom’ and other writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Hindle, S. (2003) ‘“Not by bread only”? Common right, parish relief and endowed charity in a forest economy, c.1600-1800’, in S. King and A. Tomkins (eds), The Poor in England 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 39-75.

Hobsbawm, E. (1983) ‘Introduction: Inventing Traditions’ in E. Hobsbawm, and T. Ranger (eds) The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Honore, A, (1961) ‘Ownership’ in Guest A. (ed.), Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Hoskins, W. G. and Stamp, L. D. (1963) The Common Lands of England and Wales, London: Collins

Howells, E. (2005) Good Men and True: The Lives and Tales of the Shepherds of Mid Wales, Aberystwyth: privately printed

Humphries, J. (1990) ‘Enclosures, common rights, and women: the proletarianization of families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’, Journal of Economic History 50 (1), pp. 17-42

Hunter, R. (1897) ‘The Movement for the Inclosure and Preservation of Open Lands’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 60 (2), pp. 360-431

Hurle, P. (2007) The Forest and Chase of Malvern, Chichester: Phillimore

Johnson, D. (2008) Ingleborough Landscape and History, Lancaster: Carnegie

Leland, J. (1964) The Itinerary of John Leland, ed. L. Toulmin Smith, London: Centaur Press (5 volumes)

Liddell, W. H. (1966) ‘The private forests of south-west Cumberland’, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new ser. 66, pp. 106-30

Mabey, R. (1996) Flora Britannica, London: Sinclair-Stevenson

Natural England (2008a) Trends in Pastoral Commoning in England: a study for Natural England (The Pastoral Commoning Partnership with H&H Bowes)

Neeson, J. M. (1993) Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Norden, J. (1618) The Surveiors Dialogue, London

Ostrom, E. (1990) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Pollard, S. (1997) Marginal Europe: The Contribution of Marginal Lands Since the Middle Ages, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Poos, L. R. and Bonfield, L. (1998) Select cases in manorial courts 1250-1550: Property and family law, London: Selden Society Vol. CXIV

Postgate, M. R. (1973)  ‘Field systems of East Anglia’, in A. R. H. Baker and R. A. Butlin (eds), Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 281-324

Ravensdale, J. R. (1974) Liable to Floods: village landscape on the edge of the fens, AD 450-1850, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Reay, B. (1996) Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Ritvo, Harriet (2009) The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere and modern environmentalism, London: University of Chicago Press

Roach, P. C. (ed.) (1959) A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Volume III, London: Victoria County Histories

Robinson, L. (ed.) (1990) Court Rolls of Manor of Wakefield, 1651-2, Yorkshire Archaeological Society: Wakefield Court Rolls Series, VIII

Rodgers, C. P., Straughton, E. A., Winchester, A. J. L., and Pieraccini, M. (2011) Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance Past and Present, London: Earthscan

Royal Commission (1958) Royal Commission on Common Land 1955-1958: Report (P.P. 1958, Cmnd. 462)

Sabine, G. H. (1965) The works of Gerrard Winstanley, New York: Russell & Russell

Schama, S. (1996) Landscape and Memory, London: Fontana Press

Searle, C. E. (1993) ‘Customary tenants and the enclosure of the Cumbrian commons’, Northern History 29, pp. 126-53

Shannon, W. D. (2009) ‘Approvement and Improvement in Early-Modern England: enclosure in the lowland wastes of Lancashire, 1500-1700’.  PhD thesis, Lancaster University

Shaw Lefevre, G. (1894) English Commons and Forests, London: Cassell

Shaw-Taylor, L. (2002) ‘The management of common land in the lowlands of southern England’, in De Moor et al (2002), pp. 59-85.

Short, B. (1999), ‘Conservation, class and custom: lifespace and conflict in a nineteenth-century forest environment’, Rural History 10 (2), pp. 127-54

Silvester, R. J. (2004) ‘The commons and the waste: use and misuse in mid-Wales’, in I. D. Whyte and A. J. L. Winchester (eds), Society, Landscape and Environment in Upland Britain, Birmingham: Society for Landscape Studies, pp. 53-66

Silvester, R. J. (2007) ‘Landscapes of the poor: encroachment in Wales in the post-medieval centuries’, in P. S. Barnwell and M. Palmer (eds), Post-Medieval Landscapes, Macclesfield: Windgather Press. Landscape History after Hoskins, Volume 3, pp. 55-67

Smout, T. C. (2000), Nature Contested: Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Steers J. A. (ed.), (1960) Scolt Head Island, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons

Steers, J. A. (1936) ‘Some notes on the North Norfolk Coast from Hunstanton to Brancaster’, The Geographical Journal 87(1), pp. 35-46

Straughton, E. (2008) Common Grazing in the Northern English Uplands, 1800-1965: A history of national policy and local practice with special attention to the case of Cumbria, Lampeter & Lewiston: Edwin Mellen

Suggett, R. (2005) Houses and History in the March of Wales: Radnorshire 1400-1800, Aberystwyth: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Summerfield, G. (ed.) (1990) John Clare: Selected Poetry, London: Penguin

Sydenham, A. (2006) Commons and Village Greens – the new law, Dorchester: Lime Legal

Thirsk, J. (2007) Food in Early Modern England, London: Hambledon Continuum

Thomas, K. (1983) Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800, London: Allen Lane

Thompson, E. P. (1991) Customs in Common: Studies in Popular Culture, London: Penguin

Turner, M. (1980), English Parliamentary Enclosure: its historical geography and economic history, Folkestone: Archon Books

Turner, M., Beckett, J. and Afton, B. (2003) ‘Agricultural Sustainability and Open-Field Farming in England, c.1650-1830’, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1 (2), pp. 124-140

Wade Martins, S. (2004) Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870, Macclesfield: Windgather

Waddell, B. (Dec 2011) Landscape and Society in the Vale of York, c.1500-1800 (York: Borthwick Papers, no. 120), 56pp.

Waddell, B. (June 2012) ‘Governing England through the Manor Courts, c.1550-1850’, Historical Journal, 55:2, pp. 279-315

A bibliography of texts useful for researching new models for the governance of the Common lands of England and Wales in promoting sustainable development of the modern commons.

Agrawal, Arun (2001)‘Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources’ World Development 29 (10) October pp1649-1672

 Armitage, D (2008) ‘Governance and the Commons in a Multi-Level World’ International Journal of the Commons  2 (1)p p7-32

Aitchison J., & Gadsden, G., Howarth, W., Rodgers, C. P. (Eds) (1992)Common Land in Agriculture, Conservation and Land Use: Law Policy Issues for Rural Areas, University of Wales Press-Environment & Countryside Law

Berge, E. (2006) ‘Protected areas and traditional commons: values and institutions’ Norwegian Journal of Geography  60 (01) pp65-67

 Berge, E. & Van Laerhoven, F. (2011)Editorial ‘Governing the commons for two decades: a complex story’ International Journal of the Commons  5 (2) pp160-87

Berkes, F. (Ed.) (1989) Common property resources: ecology and community-based sustainable development Brock Univ., St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

 Bromley, D. & Cernea, M. (1989) The Management of Common Property Natural Resources Some Conceptual and Operational Fallacies. Washington D.C. World Bank

 Brown, A. (2008) ‘Crofter Forestry, Land Reform and the Ideology of the Community’ Social and Legal Studies 17 (3) pp333-349

 Brown, K. M. (2006) ‘The role of moral values in contemporary common property enactment’ Norwegian Journal of Geography Special Issue: Essays on Landscape, law and justice 60 (1) pp81-99

 Brown, K. M. (2006) ‘New challenges for old commons: the role of historical common land in contemporary rural spaces’ Scottish Geographical Journal 122 (2) pp109-129

 Brown, K. M. (2007) ‘Reconciling moral and legal collective entitlement: Implications for community-based land reform’ Land Use Policy 24 (4)p p633-643

 Brown, K.M. & Slee, R.W. (13^th November 2001) ‘Common property and rural development’ Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, Research Foundation Rural Research Conference ROOTS, London

 Bryden, J., Geisler, C. (2007) ‘Community-based land reform: Lessons from Scotland’ Land Use Policy 24 (1) January pp24-34

 Carey, P Short C et al (2003) ‘The multi-disciplinary evaluation of a national agri-environment scheme’ Journal of Environmental Management 69 (1) pp71-91

 Clarke, A. (2006)‘Creating New Commons: Recognition of Communal Land Rights within a Private Property Framework’ Current Legal Problems 59 pp319-357

 Clarke, J.R.A., & Clarke, R. (2011)‘Local sustainability initiatives in English National Parks: What role for adaptive governance?’ Land Use Policy 28 (1)p p314-324

 Countryside and Community Research Unit (1998)Good Practice Guide on Managing the use of Common Land, London: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

 Diacon, D., Clarke, R. and Guimarães, S. (Eds) (2005) Redefining the Commons Locking in Value through Community Land Trusts Joseph Rowntree Foundation  Coalville: Building and Social Housing Foundation

 Dowie M. (2005) ‘In Law We Trust: Can Environmental Legislation Still Protect the Commons?’ Orion Magazine  July/August

 Fennell, Lee Anne (2011) ‘Ostroms’ Law: Property rights of the commons ‘International Journal of the Commons 5 (1) p9-27

 Godden, L. & Tehan, M. (Eds) (2010) Reviewed by Anne-Michelle Slater Comparable Perspectives on Communal Land and Individual Ownership Environmental Law Review 12 (3) pp243-244.

 Etchell, C., Ed (1996) ‘Consensus in the Countryside: an overview’ Bishop, J., in Consensus in the Countryside: Reaching Shared Agreement in Policy, Planning and Management, proceedings from a Workshop Cardiff Countryside Recreation Network

 Gibbs, C.J.N., Bromley, D.W. in Berkes F. (Ed) (1989) ‘Institutional arrangements for management of rural resources: Common property regimes’ Common Property Resources London: Belhaven Press

 Healey, P. (1998) ‘Collaborative Planning in a stakeholder society ’Town Planning Review, 69 (1) pp1-21

 Henry, Adam D. and Dietz, T. (2011) ‘Information, networks, and the complexity of trust in commons governance’ International Journal of the Commons 5 (2) pp188-212

 Hodge, I., & McNally, S. (1997) ‘To the rural white papers and beyond’ Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 40 (3) pp375-376

Hoffman, M. (available online 22 October 2012 ) ‘Why community ownership? Understanding land reform in Scotland’ Land Use Policy In Press, Corrected Proof

 Holder J. and Flessas, T. (2008) ‘Emerging Commons’ Social & Legal Studies 17 (3) pp299-310

 Humphries, A. (1997) ‘The common good’ Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 158 pp126-137

 Jessop, B. (1998) ‘The rise of governance and the risks of failure: the case of economic development’ International Social Science Journal 155 pp29-45.

 Layard, A. (2012) ‘The Localism Act 2011: what is “local” and how do we (legally) construct it?’ Environmental Law Review 14 (2) pp134-144.

 Lowe, P. (1997) ‘The British Rural White Papers: a comparison and critique ’Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 40 (3) pp389-400

 MacEwan, A., & MacEwan, M. (1982) National Parks: Conservation or Cosmetics London: Allen & Unwin

 McGillivray, D. & Holder, J. (2007) ‘Locality, environment and law: the case of town and village greens’ International Journal of Law in Context 3 (1) pp1-17

 MccPhee, E. (1996)‘Community environmental action: The Plumstead common experience’Local Environment 1 (2) pp183-196.

 Mills, J, Gibbon, D. et al (2011)‘Organising collective action for effective environmental management and social learning in Wales’ The Journal of Agriculture Education and Extension 17 (1) pp69-83

 Murdoch, Sandi (20 June 2009) ‘Ad hoc system is beyond its sell-by date?’ Estates Gazette 0924 83

 Pannell, David & Vanclay Frank Collingwood (2011) Changing Land Management: adoption of new practices by rural landowners Vic: CSIRO

 Parkes, P. (2005) ‘A Pasture in Common: A Twentieth-Century Environmental History of Ewyas Harold Common (Herefordshire)’ Rural History 16 (1) pp111-132

 Pierce, J.T. (1996) ‘The conservation challenge in sustaining, rural environments’Journal of Rural Studies 12 (3) pp215-229

 Pieraccini, M. (2010) ‘Sustainability and the English commons: a legal pluralist analysis’ Environmental Law Review 12 (2) pp94-113

 Quinn, C.H. et al(2010) ‘Property rights in UK uplands and the implications for policy management’ Ecological Economics 69 (6) April pp1355-1363

 Rodgers, C. (1999) ‘Environmental Management of Common Land: Towards a New Legal Framework?’ Journal of Environmental Law 11 pp231-255

 Rodgers  C.(2007) ‘A New Deal for Commons? Common Resource Management and the Commons Act 2006′ Environmental Law Review 9 p25-40

 Rodgers C. (2009) ‘Property Rights, Land Use and the Rural Environment: A Case for Reform’ Land Use Policy 26S pp131-141 

 Rodgers C. (2010) ‘Reversing the’ Tragedy’ of the Commons? Sustainable Management and the Commons Act 2006′  Modern Law Review 73 pp428-453 

 Rodgers, C. (2100) ‘Common Land And Environmental Governance In English Law; Reconciling Private Property Rights And The Provision of “Public Goods’  in Alberto Germano e Domencio Viti  ”Agricoltura E “Beni Comuni”,  Firenze: dell’ Istituto  Di Diritto Argario Internazionale E Comparato  

 Rodgers C., Straughton, E.A., Winchester, A.J.L., & Pieranccini (Eds)  (2011) Contested Common Land, London: Earthscan

 Rose, Laurel L. (1996) Disputes in common property regimes Land Tenure Centre, University of Winsconsin-Madison LTC Paper with number 12763

 Rude, T.K. (2011) ‘The commons and development: unanswered sociological questions’ International Journal of the Commons 5 (2) pp303-318

 Selman, P & Wragg, A. (1997) ‘Consensus building for sustainability in the wider countryside’ Working Paper No. 1 EU Framework Four, Environment & Climate Reseach Programme Contract Cheltenham: Countryside & Community Research Unit

 Short, C. (2008) ‘Reconciling Nature Conservation ‘Needs’ and Those of Other Land Uses in a Multi-Functional Context high-value nature conservation sites in lowland England’ in Robinson G. (Ed) Sustainable Rural Systems Ashgate: Aldershot

 Short, C. (2008) ‘The Traditional Commons of England and Wales in the Twenty-First Century: meeting new and old challenges’ International Journal of the Commons European Commons Special Issue 2 (2) pp192-22

 Short, C. (2000) ‘Common Land and ELMS: a need for policy innovation in England and Wales’ Land Use Policy 17 (2) pp121-133

 Short, C., & Dwyer, J. (2012) ‘Reconciling pastoral agriculture and nature conservation: developing a co-management approach in English uplands’ Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 1:13

 Short, C., Selmamn, P. & Wragg, A. (Revd. Edition 2012) A Common Purpose A Guide to Community Engagement for those contemplating management on Common Land

Short, C.(with Winter, M.) (1998) Managing the Use of Common Land Bristol: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions  

 Short, C. & Winter, M. (1999) ‘The Problem of Common Land: Towards Stakeholder Governance’ Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 42 (5) pp613-630.

 Short, C. et al (2008) ‘Exploring the interactions between land-based industries and communities in Rural England’ Journal of Farm Management 13 (5) pp54-63

Short, C., et al (2011) Inspiring and Enabling Local Communities: the Integrated Model Delivery for localism and the Environment Countryside and Community Research Institute Cheltenham

Stern, P. (2011) ‘Design Principles for global commons: Natural resources and emerging technologies’ International Journal of the Commons 5 (2) pp213-232

 Thompson, D.B.A. et al (1995) ‘Upland heather moorland in Great Britain: a review of international importance, vegetation change and some objectives for nature conservation’ C.A., Biological Conservation 71 (2) pp163-178

 Van Rensburg Murphy E., Rocks, P. (April 2009) ‘Commonage land and farmer uptake of the rural environment protection scheme in Ireland’ Land Use Policy, 26 (2) pp345-355

 Warren, L. M. (2012)‘New approaches to nature conservation in the UK’ Environmental Law Review 14 (1) pp44-52

Whitby, M. & Lowe, P. (1994) ‘The political and economic roots of environmental policy in agriculture’ in Whitby, M. (Ed) Incentives for Countryside Management: The case of Environmentally Sensitive Areas Wallingford: CAB

 Wilson, O. (1993) ‘Common Lands in the Durham Dales: management and policy issues’ Area 25 3 pp237-245

 Wilson, O.J. & Wilson, G.A. (1997) ‘Common Cause or common concern? The role of common lands in the post-productivist countryside’ Area 29 (1) pp45-58

A bibliography of texts useful for researching models of Common lands of England and Wales in promoting involvement of Commons, Community and Biodiversity

 Berkes F. & Davidson-Hunt I.J. (2010) ‘Innovating through commons use-community based enterprises’, International Journal of the Commons  4 (1) pp1-7

Bryden, J & Geisler, C , (2007)‘Community-based land reform: Lessons from  Scotland’ Land Use Policy, 24, (1), pp24-34

Common land and village greens: http://www.gov.uk/common-land-village-greens.

Dwyer, J. (2011) UK land Use Futures Policy influence and challenges for the coming decades Land Use, 28, ( 4) pp674-683

Dwyer, J. & Short, C. (2011) An Ecosystem services pilot in the South West; building a framework for delivery Report to Exmoor National Park and Natural England, CCRI: Cheltenham

Kambites, C., Johnson, P., Lewis, N., & Short, C. (2006) Green Infrastructure Planning in Swindon Urban-Rural Fringe Great Wester Community Forest

Lawton, J.H. et al (2010) Making Space for Nature: A Review of England’s wildlife sites and ecological network Report to DEFRA

McCay. B.J. & Delaney, A. (2010) ‘Expanding the boundaries of commons scholarship’ The 2008 Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons International Journal of the Commons, (1) pp213-225

McGillivray, D. & Holder, J. (2007) ‘Locality, environment and law: the case of town and village greens’International Journal of Law in Context , 3 (1) pp1-17

Mackay, D. (2010) ‘New Commons for Old: Inspiring New Cultural Traditions’

Landscape Archaeology and Ecology Review, vol xx

Mackenzie, F Douglas (2010) ‘A common claim: Community land ownership in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

McPhee, E. (1996) ‘Community environmental action: The Plumstead common experience’

Local Environment, 1 (2) pp183-196

Mills, J. et al (2012) Economics of Co-ordination in Environmental Stewardship Final Report to Defra & Natural England Project No. FFG 1128

Mills, J., et al (2011) Organising collective action for effective environmental management and social learning in Wales The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 17(1) pp69-83

Murota, T & Takeshita, K. (2013) Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance United Nations University Press

Natural England (2011) Think BIG –Why Landscape-scale conservation benefits wildlife, people & the wider economy England: Natural England http://issuu.com/naturalengland/docs/ne309

Open Spaces Society (2010) Finding Common Ground Henley-on Thames, Oxon: Open Spaces Society

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2011)The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature HM Government CM 8082

Short, C. (2008) ‘Reconciling Nature Conservation and Those of Other Land Uses in a Multi-Functional Context: high-value nature conservation sites in lowland England’ in Robinson, G. Sustainable Rural Systems Ashgate: Aldershot pp125-144.

Short, C. (2006) ‘Ring in the new multifunctional approaches to common land management in England and Wales Presentation to the IASCP Europe Regional Meeting Brescia, Italy: University of Brescia

Short, C. (2008) ‘The Traditional Commons of England and Wales in the Twenty-First Century: meeting new and old challenges’ International Journal of the Commons European Commons Special Issue 2 (2) pp192-22

Short, C.(2011 forthcoming)  Proceedings of the Eighth National Seminar Common Land and Village Greens, Countryside & Community Research Institute: Cheltenham

Short, C. (2010)’Land and its uses. Webinar presentation as part of the CCRI Rural Policy Conference: Conflict or Consensus?’ The Next Decade of Rural Policy Cheltenham

Short C, Hayes L, Selman P & Wragg A (2005) A common purpose: a guide to agreeing management on common land. Report to the Countryside Agency, English Nature, The National Trust, Open Spaces Society, and RDS Defra.  English Nature, Peterborough

Short, C. et al (2005) A common purpose: a guide to agreeing management on common land Report to the Countryside Agency, English Nature, The National Trust, Open Spaces Society & RDS Defra, English Nature: Peterborough

Short, C., Jones, O. & Reed, M. (2008) Policy implications of the postmodern countryside Report to the Commission for Rural Communities Cheltenham: CRC

Short C. et al (2008) Exploring the interactions between land-based industries and communities in rural England Journal of Farm Management, 13 (4) pp369-378

Short, C,. Kambites, C., Taylor, K., & Lewis, N. (2009)Study of Determined Town and Village Green Applications Report to Defra  Cheltenham: CCRI

Short, C. co-authored with Dr Owain Jones (15-17 September 2010) ‘Opening Spaces through Re-invention of Restoration: Approaching commons through new conceptualisation of places, landscapes and environmental management: the end of tradition?’ Aspects of Commons and Cultural Severance in the Landscape’ Sheffield Hallam University

Short, C. & Dwyer, J.(18-20^th April 2011) ‘Beyond agri-environment; a new approach to ecosystem services delivery in Exmoor’ presentation within a plenary session ‘Delivering sustainable land management in the future: focusing upon ecosystem services and landscape-scale effects’ in the Annual Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Warwick

Short, C., Griffiths, R., & Phelps, J. (2011) Inspiring and Enabling Local Communities: An Integrated Model Delivery for localism and the Environment Final Report By The Countryside & Community Research Institute

Short, C. et al (2012) ’Integrated Biodiversity Delivery Area Programme: Selection and Development Phase Evaluation’ Report for Natural England

Short, C. & Dwyer, J. (2012) ‘Reconciling pastoral agriculture and nature conservation: developing a co-management approach in the English uplands’ Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice,( 2) 13 ONLINE

Short, C., Selmamn, P. & Wragg, A. (2012) A Common Purpose A Guide to Community Engagement for those contemplating management on Common Land Revd. Edition