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Given-ness and gift: Property and the quest for environmental ethics

Auteur
Rose C.M.
Périodique/Collection
Environmental Law | Vol. 24(1); 1 - 31; 31 p.
Date
1994
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-051176)
Éditeur | Lieu de publication
Northwestern School of Law Lewis and Clark College | Portland, OR, USA
Langue
Anglais
Champ d'application
International
Sujet
Environnement gén.
Mot clé
Populations autochtones Éthique et environnement Droits de propriété Propriété commune
Résumé

Economists and some lawyers argue that environmental degradation results from an absence of property rights, a condition that opens the environment to ill-treatment as a 'commons', in which any environmental resource is treated as 'just a given'. But as Professor Rose points out, conventional forms of property rights can also damage environmental resources, while bureaucratic forms of management can be complex, expensive, and coercive. In this article, Rose suggests that environmental ethics may yield an alternative or supplemental approach to managing environmental resources, in which the environment is seen not as a 'given' but as a 'gift'. With common problems in mind, she examines three possible sources for genuinely conservationist environmental ethics: indigenous people's practices biologic rights, and older forms of common property