Property Rights from Below: Commodification of Land and the Counter-Movement (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series)

Synopsis

Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world. As formerly community-owned land and natural resources are privatized and titling schemes proliferate, Property Rights from Below questions the trend toward treating land as a commodity and explores alternatives to the Western model. As we enter an era of resource scarcity and as competition for land and associated natural resources increases, purchasing power cannot become the sole criterion for land allocation; and the law of supply and demand in increasingly financialized markets cannot become the sole metric through which the value of land is determined. Using a range of examples from around the world, Property Rights from Below demonstrates that alternatives to this model often emerge from social innovations supported by local communities and that there is an urgent need for a broader political imagination when it comes to land governance.　 This innovative cross-disciplinary perspective on the pressing problems surrounding global property rights will be of interest to academics, students and professionals with an interest in property law, development economics and land governance.

Copyright:

2020

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781317220022

Related ISBNs:

9781315621463, 9781138657243, 9781138657243

Publisher:

CRC Press

Date of Addition:

12/20/19

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Olivier De Schutter and Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

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Edited by:

Olivier De Schutter

Edited by:

Balakrishnan Rajagopal