Stewarding the earth : rethinking property and the emergence of biocultural rights /
Bavikatte, Sanjay KabirAuthor
Do communities that care for the land have the right to protect it against destruction? Do the rights of such communities to act as trustees of the land override the rights of the government or the owners of the land? Written in an engaging style, rich with examples and theoretical insights, from law, economics and anthropology, 'Stewarding the Earth' maps the emergence of a new set of community rights to stewardship called 'biocultural rights'.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Do communities that care for the land have the right to protect it against destruction? Do the rights of such communities to act as trustees of the land override the rights of the government or the owners of the land? Written in an engaging style, rich with examples and theoretical insights, from law, economics and anthropology, 'Stewarding the Earth' maps the emergence of a new set of community rights to stewardship called 'biocultural rights'.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2014).
Self-determination as political ecology : the roots of biocultural rights -- Homo economicus on trial : towards an ethic of stewardship -- Fighting fetishism : biocultural readings of social hieroglyphs -- Reification : the law as a collective conspiracy -- Fighting reification : towards a peoples' history of the law -- Rethinking property : a biocultural approach -- A jurisprudence of stewardship : creating biocultural precedents -- Biocultural rights in Anglo-American jurisprudence -- Biocultural community protocols : towards a pluralism of property.
Biodiversity conservation
Indigenous peoples
Land tenure
Land tenure
Law
Law, Politics & Government
Law, General & Comparative