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“The increasingly one-dimensional use of land stands in stark contrast to the mixed arable and pastoral economies of the bailtean which, in turn, sustained socially complex communities. These township populations nurtured knowledge production systems that enabled mixed land management strategies. This was underpinned by communal, rule-based approaches to foreshores, grazing, and fuel assets which were taken to be common pool resources. Local resources could then be exploited through a consciously integrated and diverse set of micro-economies.”

Grazing Land Use Pastoral Highlands And Islands Townships Foreshores

Book:Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands

Source: Plantation Slavery and Land Ownership in the West Highlands and Islands

“I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.”

Highland Clearances Highlands And Islands

Book:Highland Journeys

Source: Highland Journeys

“The bald unpalatable fact is emphasized that the Highlands and Islands are largely a devastated terrain, and that any policy which ignores this fact cannot hope to achieve rehabilitation.”

Highlands And Islands Land Management Human Ecology

Book:West Highland Survey: An Essay in Human Ecology

Source: West Highland Survey: An Essay in Human Ecology