Property Rights and Sustainability
The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges
Published on 15. September 2010
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-415-57830-1 (ISBN)
Description
Pressing environmental concerns and related social and economic tensions are currently forcing a number of common and civil law countries to reassess the basic mix of entitlements and responsibilities that constitute the ownership of land and other natural resources. This book contains original essays which rethink property rights in order to meet the objectives of ecological sustainability. This book will feature contributions from leading international experts on how to re-conceive and transform property rights so that the norms of ownership and use better align with the demands of sustainability, addressing issues such as water management, land use, common property regimes and indigenous property rights.
Existing scholarship addressing the intersection of property and sustainability issues traditionally focuses on the use of traditional property-based approaches to solve common-pool resource problems. This book seeks to broaden this traditional property/sustainability discourse by addressing the larger question of how property rights can be systemically and carefully rethought so as to better align them with ecological sustainability, both as a normative matter and as a technical matter.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental law, politics and policy studies, planning and resource management, environmental studies, economics and development studies.
Existing scholarship addressing the intersection of property and sustainability issues traditionally focuses on the use of traditional property-based approaches to solve common-pool resource problems. This book seeks to broaden this traditional property/sustainability discourse by addressing the larger question of how property rights can be systemically and carefully rethought so as to better align them with ecological sustainability, both as a normative matter and as a technical matter.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental law, politics and policy studies, planning and resource management, environmental studies, economics and development studies.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-57830-1 (9780415578301)
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Persons
David Grinlinton is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Prue Taylor is a Senior Lecturer of law and a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Prue Taylor is a Senior Lecturer of law and a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Content
1. Foreword - Rights and Responsibilities: Insights from Global Cultural Traditions, Judge Christopher Weeramantry 2. Introduction - Property Rights and Sustainability: Towards a new vision of property, Prue Taylor and David Grinlinton 3. Property: Faustian Pact or New Covenant with Earth?, Ronald Engel 4. Property Rights and Sustainability: can they be reconciled?, Klaus Bosselmann 5. The Mythology of Environmental Markets, Nicole Graham 6. Voluntary Simplicity: Towards a post-growth theory of property, Samuel Alexander 7. The Evolution of Property Rights, Eric Freyfogle 8. Sustainable Webs of Interests: Reconceptualising Property in an Interconnected Environment, Tony Arnold 9. Property rights, plural traditions and the common good, Peter Horsley 10. Elusive forms: Materiality and cultural diversity in the ownership of water, Veronica Strang 11. Communal governance of land and resources as a sustainable property institution, Lee Godden 12. Concepts of Indigenous Claims and Property Rights, Nin Tomas 13. South African natural resources, property rights and the public trust - transformation in progress, Elmarie van der Schyff 14. International Law, Foreign-Owned Property and Regulatory Freedom, Amokura Kawharu 15. Evolution, adaptation and invention: Property rights in natural resources in a changing world, David Grinlinton 16. Property Across Sustainable Landscapes: competing claims, collapsing dichotomies and the future of property, Ann Brower and John Page 17. Conclusion, Prue Taylor and David Grinlinton