Research Catalog

Title

Private property rights and the environment : our responsibilities to global natural resources / Shelly Hiller Marguerat.

Author

Hiller Marguerat, Shelly

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xiv, 477 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"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"--Back cover

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in environmental policy and regulation

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in environmental policy and regulation.

Subject

• Right of property
• Environmental law
• Property
• Natural resources > Law and legislation
• property rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Private Property Right as Essential for Human Liberty and Safe Society -- Private Property Balanced with the General Interest on International Ground -- Property as a Common Use -- The International Human Right to a Healthy Environment, Human Right Obligations for Nature and Possible Difficulties of Implementations -- A Possible Answer from the 'Source' of the Environmental Problem -- The Basic Understanding of the Theory of Property and Its Foundation -- The Basis for the Clear and Affordable Responsibilities to Property Rights -- Locke's Correlative Property Limits/Responsibilities to His Property Rights -- Locke's Relevance to all Scholars in all Times.

ISBN

• 3319978993
• 9783319978994
• 9783319979007 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• on1043571361
• 1043571361
• SCSB-9191174

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library