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Lawscape: Property, Environment and Law

Author
Graham N.
Date
2010
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-086142)
Publisher | Place of publication
Routledge | Abingdon, United Kingdom
ISBN
978-0-415-69778-1
Pages
226 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Land tenure Property rights
Abstract

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, Lawscape engages the abstract philosophy of property law with the material environments of place. Whilst most accounts of land law have contributed cultural analyses of historical and political value predominantly through the lens of property rights, few have contributed analyses of the natural consequences of property law through the lens of property responsibilities. Lawscape does this by addressing the relationship between the commodification of land, instituted in and by property law, and ecological and economic histories. Its synthesis of property law and environmental law provides a genuinely transdisciplinary analysis of the particular cultural concepts and practices of land tenure that have been created, and exported, across the globe.

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