Private Property Rights and the Environment

Private Property Rights and the Environment
Author: Shelly Hiller Marguerat
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2018-11-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319979000

This book explores the current notion and definition of property, and its interpretation and implementation in relation to the environment. The author examines two primary problems: the degradation of land, natural resources and animal abuse; and the increasing erosion of private property rights from property owners by the arbitrary interference of state governments. Examining texts from antiquity to contemporary legislation, it portrays the historical development of the understanding of “nature” as “property” and discusses our obligations towards the environment. Drawing on the most influential political-philosophical texts from all periods of property rights history, the author analyzes modern national and international legislation and case law to offer legally-grounded evidence and explanations. This book advocates the incorporation of a formula that guarantees the protection of property rights into the legal system, and imposes clear and effective responsibility on property owners to limit the use of natural resources and the abuse of animals. This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers and students with an interest in environmental and private property law.

Earth Jurisprudence

Earth Jurisprudence
Author: Peter D. Burdon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 113514415X

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment explores how an alternative conception of property might be instead grounded in the ecocentric concept of an Earth community. Recognising that human beings are deeply interconnected with and dependent on nature, this concept is proposed as a standard and measure for human law. This book argues that the anthropocentric institution of private property needs to be reconceived; drawing on international case law, indigenous views of property and the land use practices of agrarian communities, Peter Burdon considers how private property can be reformulated in a way that fosters duties towards nature. Using the theory of earth jurisprudence as a guide, he outlines an alternative ecocentric description of private property as a relationship between and among members of the Earth community. This book will appeal to those researching in law, justice and ecology, as well as anyone pursuing an interest more particularly in earth jurisprudence.

Who Owns the Environment?

Who Owns the Environment?
Author: Peter J. Hill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 367
Release: 1998-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461647053

The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to Who Owns the Environment? explore numerous theoretical and empirical possibilities for remedying these problems. An important book for environmental economists and those interested in environmental policy.

Property Rights and Climate Change

Property Rights and Climate Change
Author: Fennie van Straalen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 9781138698000

Impacts in changing contexts -- Theoretical notions -- Information and land values -- Formal rules -- Financial responsibility

Property Rights and Sustainability

Property Rights and Sustainability
Author: David Grinlinton
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004182640

This book offers a unique and thought provoking exploration of how property concepts can be substantially reshaped to meet ecological challenges. It takes the discussion beyond its traditional parameters and offers new insights into conceptualizing and justifying property systems, in an age of ecological consequences.

Rights to Nature

Rights to Nature
Author: Susan Hanna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation. This book is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that guide and control human use of the environment.

Environmental Markets

Environmental Markets
Author: Terry L. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107010225

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation. No other book focuses on a property rights approach using environmental markets to solve environmental problems. This book compares standard approaches to these problems using governmental management, regulation, taxation, and subsidization with a market-based property rights approach. This approach is applied to land, water, wildlife, fisheries, and air and is compared to governmental solutions. The book concludes by discussing tougher environmental problems such as ocean fisheries and the global atmosphere, emphasizing that neither governmental nor market solutions are a panacea.

Green Capitalism

Green Capitalism
Author: Hannes H. Gissurarson
Publisher: Almenna bókafélagið
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2017-12-31
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

In the first part the report discusses the common claim that our environment is being destroyed and recalls dire predictions about the future, trying to explain their emotional roots. In the second part it describes the main tenets of ‘wise use environmentalism’ and the economic and political case for private property rights. In the third part it analyses solutions that have been developed in Iceland to the problem of common-pool or non-exclusive resources, such as mountain pastures, salmon rivers and, most importantly, offshore fisheries. In the fourth part it looks at exotic wildlife, whales, elephants, and rhinos and argues that the best way to conserve these valuable species is by defining some kind of use rights to them, akin to private property rights, and to allow trade in their products. Finally, it offers some recommendations.

The Not So Wild, Wild West

The Not So Wild, Wild West
Author: Terry Lee Anderson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780804748544

Cooperation, not conflict, is emphasized in a study that casts America's frontier history as a place in which local people helped develop the legal framework that tamed the West.