Property Rights in a Social and Ecological Context
Property Rights in a Social and Ecological Context

Author: Susan Hanna

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780821334164

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The collection of papers in the book Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues, (6) and this companion volume examine the relationships between people, the environment, and property rights and the ways in which a given social and ecological context affects those relationships. The papers are products of a research program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The main objective of the program was to convene social scientists and natural scientists to address research questions in their full social and ecological dimensions.The program's participants addressed five general issues related to property rights and the environment: (1) the design of governance systems for sustainability; (2) the relationship between equity, stewardship, and environmental resilience; (3) the use of traditional knowledge in resource management, (4) the mechanisms that link people to their environments, and (5) the role played by population and poverty. This volume presents case studies that address questions of design application in those five areas.(6) Also available: Property Rights and the Environment: Social and Ecological Issues. (ISBN 0-8213-3415-8) Stock No. 13415.

Rights to Nature
Rights to Nature

Author: Susan Hanna

Publisher:

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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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.

Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History
Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History

Author: Stanley Engerman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 113435746X

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The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications. The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and accommodation to the power differences between the contesting groups. This is done within a framework outlined by the editors in their analytical overview, which offers contours for comparative examinations of such disputes, past and present. Providing conceptual and factual analyses of comparative nature and wealth of empirical material (both historical and contemporary), this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and all scholars interested in issues concerning ethno-nationality and land rights in historical perspective.

Social-Ecological Resilience and Law
Social-Ecological Resilience and Law

Author: Ahjond S. Garmestani

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0231536356

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Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, "resilience theory," which embraces uncertainty and nonlinear dynamics in complex adaptive systems, has provided a robust, invaluable foundation for sound environmental management. Reforming American law to incorporate this knowledge is the key to sustainability. This volume features top legal and resilience scholars speaking on resilience theory and its legal applications to climate change, biodiversity, national parks, and water law.

Property Law and Economics
Property Law and Economics

Author: Boudewijn Bouckaert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1849806519

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This book contains illuminating and carefully written literature reviews on the central topics of the economics of property rights and institutions. As a bonus, it includes two fascinating chapters on topics off the beaten path slavery and new types of property rights in environmental goods. This book will be indispensible for students and experienced scholars alike. Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School, US This study covers property law and property rights, providing a full summary and comprehensive bibliography of the existing law, together with discussion from an economic perspective on the most important aspects of property law. Leading experts have brought together their knowledge and insight on a full range of issues including comparative property law and the history of property law to create a truly autonomous interdisciplinary resource. This essential reference work will strongly appeal to scholars and students enrolled in academic programmes of law and economics. Academic lawyers involved in research and teaching of private (common) law, practicing lawyers in the field of real estate law, as well as economists involved in researching development economics and transition economics will also find this an invaluable resource.

Sustaining Large Marine Ecosystems: The Human Dimension
Sustaining Large Marine Ecosystems: The Human Dimension

Author: Timothy M. Hennessey

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2005-05-06

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0080459706

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The shift away from the management of individual resources to the broader perspective of ecosystems is no longer confined to academia and think tanks where it first began; the ecosystem paradigm also is beginning to take root in government policy and programs.This volume provides innovative and timely approaches for improving and sustaining socioeconomic benefits from LMEs. The authors describe methodologies and actions for moving forward in halting the downward resource sustainability spiral and advancing toward the recovery of depleted fish stocks, restoration of degraded habitats, and reduction and control of pollution within the framework of an ecosystem-based approach for the governance of LMEs.* First book to ever publish that focuses on the human dimension of large marine ecosystem management* Offers set of guidelines for possible interrelationship management programs* Addresses taxing issues and problems pertaining to the world's marine ecosystems* Provides a matrix of the interdependence of economic, social, cultural and governance elements

Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Mohan Munasinghe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 1108404154

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Provides a rigorous analysis of sustainable development that includes practical, policy-relevant, global case studies, explained concisely and clearly.

Property Rights and Social Justice
Property Rights and Social Justice

Author: Rachael Walsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 110842693X

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Analyses the mediation of property rights and social justice through the prism of 'progressive' constitutional property rights guarantees.

Linking Social and Ecological Systems
Linking Social and Ecological Systems

Author: Fikret Berkes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-04-13

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521785624

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It is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development is becoming increasingly obvious. Developed under the auspices of the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, this new book analyses social and ecological linkages in selected ecosystems using an international and interdisciplinary case study approach. The chapters provide detailed information on a variety of management practices for dealing with environmental change. Taken as a whole, the book will contribute to the greater understanding of essential social responses to changes in ecosystems, including the generation, accumulation and transmission of ecological knowledge, structure and dynamics of institutions, and the cultural values underlying these responses. A set of new (or rediscovered) principles for sustainable ecosystem management is also presented. Linking Social and Ecological Systems will be of value to natural and social scientists interested in sustainability.