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• A foundational understanding of animal property law. The nexus of animal rights and the rights of nature ; Biodiversity loss as a property law problem
• Revealing the existing body of animal property rights. The biological origins of property ; Uncovering animal rights in existing property law
• A roadmap for property ownership to benefit biodiversity ; Using legal trusts to implement a system of animal property rights ; Traditional legal pathways to formalizing animal property rights ; Leveraging property rights to aid biodiversity ; Case studies of stakeholder collaborations managing resource competition between humans and wildlife. Case study
• 1: Ranchers and wild horses in the West ; Case study
• 2: Outsourcing thick-billed parrot recovery to Mexico ; Case study
• 3: Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific management of caribou
• Analyzing the potential of animal property ownership ; Evaluating a property-based approach to biodiversity preservation ; The Implications for interspecies ownership on property theory
• Conclusion: Are animal property rights the rights of nature?

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do-to the betterment of all.
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• A foundational understanding of animal property law. The nexus of animal rights and the rights of nature ; Biodiversity loss as a property law problem
• Revealing the existing body of animal property rights. The biological origins of property ; Uncovering animal rights in existing property law
• A roadmap for property ownership to benefit biodiversity ; Using legal trusts to implement a system of animal property rights ; Traditional legal pathways to formalizing animal property rights ; Leveraging property rights to aid biodiversity ; Case studies of stakeholder collaborations managing resource competition between humans and wildlife. Case study
• 1: Ranchers and wild horses in the West ; Case study
• 2: Outsourcing thick-billed parrot recovery to Mexico ; Case study
• 3: Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific management of caribou
• Analyzing the potential of animal property ownership ; Evaluating a property-based approach to biodiversity preservation ; The Implications for interspecies ownership on property theory
• Conclusion: Are animal property rights the rights of nature?

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumption are disastrous for wildlife and humans alike. The alarm bells ringing about biodiversity loss are growing louder, and the possibility of mass extinction is real. Anthropocentric property is a key driver of biodiversity loss, a silent killer of species worldwide. But as law and sustainability scholar Karen Bradshaw shows, if excluding animals from a legal right to own land is causing their destruction, extending the legal right to own property to wildlife may prove its salvation. Wildlife as Property Owners advocates for folding animals into our existing system of property law, giving them the opportunity to own land just as humans do-to the betterment of all.
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• Introduction: Raiding Russia
• Wild-West capitalism in the East
• Parasitism and corporate predation
• Mass privatization : virtual reality, volatile rights, and violent raiding
• Prospects of raiding evolution : prognosis is optimistic
• The invisible hand of the market and indivisble hand of the state
• The invisible hand of the market and the invincible hand of the raider
• Organizational forms of raiding : client, organizer, and executor
• Foot soldiers and firepower : prices on raiding services
• Conclusion.

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land raiding in Russia. Building on previous scholarship, this monograph conceptualizes the predatory character of corporate hostile takeovers in Russia and links it with the coercive nature of the ruling authoritarian regime. This project will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and researchers in Russian and Post-Soviet politics, capitalism, corruption, and property rights.
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• Introduction
• The evolution of land law in China : partial reform, vested interests, and small property
• Planting houses in Shenzhen
• Small property, big market : a focal point explanation
• Small property, adverse possession, and optional law
• Small property in transition : a tale of two villages
• All quiet on the judicial front?
• Conclusion: Market transition : sticky norms or sticky law?

Small property houses provide living space to about eight million migrant workers, office space for start-ups, grassroots police stations and public schools; their contribution to the economic growth and urbanization of a city is immense. The interaction between the small property sector and the formal legal order has a long history and small property has become an established engine of social and legal change. Chinese Small Property presents vivid stories about how institutional entrepreneurs worked together to create an impersonal market outside of the formal legal system to support millions of transactions. Qiao uses an eleven-month fieldwork project in Shenzhen - China's first special economic zone that has grown to a mega city with over fifteen million people - to demonstrate this. A thorough and detailed investigation into small property rights in China, Chinese Small Property is an invaluable source of new information for students and scholars of the field.
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• Introduction
• Ecological determination of production
• Land tax and insecure property rights in Ryotwary areas
• Land rights and Zamindari tenants
• Rural indebtedeness and rich peasant moneylending
• Agrarian market and commodity movement infrastructure development
• Agrarian social structure and labour market
• Conclusion.

• Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Property, Law, and Race in the Colony
• 1
• 1. Use
• 33
• 2. Propertied Abstractions
• 77
• 3. Improvement
• 115
• 4. Status
• 149 Conclusion: Life beyond the Boundary
• 181 Notes
• 201 Bibliography
• 239 Index 257.
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In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.
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• Introduction: Property, law, and race in the colony
• Use
• Propertied abstractions
• Improvement
• Status
• Conclusion: Life beyond the boundary.

In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ideologies of European racial superiority as well as upon legal narratives that equate civilized life with English concepts of property. In this way, property law legitimates and rationalizes settler colonial practices while it racializes those deemed unfit to own property. The solution to these enduring racial and economic inequities, Bhandar demonstrates, requires developing a new political imaginary of property in which freedom is connected to shared practices of use and community rather than individual possession.
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• Introduction
• A personal journey
• Faces of poverty : the villages profiled
• Reinventing tradition : agrarian movements in history
• Land as a productive resource
• Locating identities
• Women's claim to land
• Custom and the courts : bargaining with modernity
• Development interventions : does one size fit all?
• Reframing the debate : challenges and dilemmas.

Land for the adivasi Santal women in Dumka, Jharkhand stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. The time period covered is from historic times to the present. The role of government administrative bodies, NGOs and political leaders is also emphasized. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. A Personal Journey
• 3. Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled
• 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in History
• 5. Land as a Productive Resource
• 6. Locating Identities
• 7. Women's Claims to Land
• 8. Custom and Courts: Bargaining with Modernity
• 9. Development Interventions: Can One Size fit all?
• 10. ConclusionsBibliographyIndex.
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Land for the adivasi Santal women in Dumka, Jharkhand stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. The time period covered is from historic times to the present. The role of government administrative bodies, NGOs and political leaders is also emphasized. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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• The right to roam
• The closing of America
• A brief history of trespassing
• An abbreviated journey across Europe
• The land Americans once roamed
• Why we need a right to roam
• The arguments against roaming
• A right to roam how do we get there?
• This land is our land.

Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside. Hometown: Hamilton, ON.

• Contents: Invisible lines-- Land and rights to land-- Property-- Land tenure-- Land reform-- Land registration-- Specific aspects of land registration-- Bibliography-- Glossary-- Index-- Annex A.
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During the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in issues of land reform in developing and transitional countries. This has been initiated by the large-scale re-distributive activities in former communist countries and by the growing number of claims by displaced indigenous population groups to restore their rights to land. This book provides a timely and clear overview of the historical and theoretical context of current land reform and tenure issues. Illustrated with global case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, key sections explore land and rights to land, property, land tenure and reform, and land registration. Beginning by discussing the need to demarcate space by creating 'invisible lines' - which give certainty to what extent authority over land can be established - the book then explores legal and theoretical definitions of 'land' and 'property' and looks at the various different policies and forms of land tenure. One of the most recent developments in land reform policy has been to look to traditional forms of access to land and of resource conservation. The book argues that, while such policies on land property rights have great potential, they are best being adopted in a long-term, incremental way. It also shows how land policy reforms must be embedded in institutional and general policy reforms, complemented by rural development and educational opportunities for beneficiaries. The book summarises the main principles of land reform activities and practices and argues that the perception of land tenure security is the most critical factor of success to land reform.
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• Tomo I. Reforma rural integral y restitución de tierras. Aproximación conceptual a una constitución agraria / Jaime Augusto Correa Medina ; Acceso a tierras y formalización para legalidad : apuesta de paz territorial / Jorge Eduardo Londoño Ulloa ; Entre la reparación y lo irreparable : hacia una reconstrucción del concepto de víctima en las violaciones a derechos humanos / Fernando Vargas Valencia ; La reforma agraria : el ocaso de una política de inclusión en Colombia / Andrés L. Parra Cristancho ; El proceso de adaptación social en la política de restitución de tierras / Juan Manuel Ospina, Catalina Riveros Gómez ; Restitución y redistribución : hacia un tratamiento con enfoque social a los opositores campesinos en el proceso de restitución de tierras / Sergio Roldán Zuluaga ; Elementos conceptuales y definitorios de los procedimientos administrativos especiales agrarios como instrumentos de gestión en el marco del derecho de tierras / Andrés L. Parra Cristancho, Jaime Augusto Correa Medina
• Desarrollo rural y agropecuario. Aspectos esenciales de la Unidad Agrícola Familiar (UAF) : definición, características y su utilidad en el marco del derecho de tierras / Jaime Augusto Correa Medina ; Las ZIDRES : aspectos generales y problemáticos / Héctor Santaella Quintero, Luis Felipe Guzmán Jiménez
• Medio ambiente y derecho de tierras. El aprovechamiento económico en territorios colectivos de grupos étnicos en Colombia : el sueño de los recursos naturales / Lisneider Hinestroza Cuesta ; Las corporaciones autónomas regionales y los procesos de restitución de tierras despojadas y abandonadas forzosamente en Colombia : participación y perspectivas / Kelly Patricia Jiménez Quesada

This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam, the analysis finds a strong, positive impact of neighbor adoption on the household's choice to purchase a land title. The paper also shows that this relationship holds in a separate, identical experiment held a year later in a nearby community, as well as in administrative data for more than 160,000 land parcels in the same city. Although the exact channel is undetermined, the evidence points toward complementarities in the reduction in expropriation risk, as peer effects are strongest between households living close to each other and there is some evidence that peer effects are strongest for households most concerned with expropriation. The results show that, within the Tanzanian context, households will reinforce each other's decisions to enter formal tenure systems.

• Les formes de la dépossession
• Les tribus face à la propriété individuelle en Algérie (1863-1873)
• Dynamique des systèmes fonciers imbriqués aux philippines, depuis le 16e siècle
• Quand la question foncière éclaire la conflictualité au Proche-Orient
• Les enjeux de la résistance
• Terre et droit dans le nord-ouest de l'Espagne: entre le "manifiesto legal" et la "natural razôn"
• Terre et conflit en Colombie : la résilience paysanne
• L'Afrique noire et les "communs". Rétrospectives foncières et confrontation au marché
• Le rôle de l'état
• La colonisation rurale dans une perspective d'histoire globale: l'exemple de l'Italie du sud
• Sous la seigneurie, le pétrole: la survivance de la propriété seigneuriale au 20e siècle (le cas de l'île d'Anticosti)
• Au nom de la propriété
• Expansion de la propriété foncière, conflit rural et réforme agraire au mexique (1856-1940)
• En guise de conclusion
• Les enjeux de l'appropriation du sol.

"La nouvelle vague d'accaparements de terres et d'expulsions massives des paysans à l'échelle planétaire fait resurgir sous des formes renouvelées d'anciens questionnements. Depuis l'émergence du capitalisme, l'histoire des campagnes n'aurait-elle été qu'un processus plus ou moins accéléré de dépossession des paysans? N'y a-t-il pas une "lame de fond" aboutissant à la prolétarisation inexorable des ruraux et la fin de la petite et moyenne propriété paysanne? Le landgrabbing - la saisie des terres - actuel ne serait-il pas tout simplement la poursuite des enclosures entamées depuis la fin du Moyen Âge, cette fois-ci sur le plan mondial ? Les auteurs réexaminent ces questions et aboutissent à des conclusions nuancées. Les mondes ruraux qu'ils ont approchés confirment l'offensive entreprise contre les terres, les hommes et les femmes et les ressources naturelles. Mais ils observent aussi la réaction et la riposte des campagnes, parfois d'une façon ouverte et visible, souvent de manière souterraine mais non moins efficace. Ils font état des victoires obtenues dans une dialectique où l'usurpation de la terre et des ressources peut être rapidement suivie par la réappropriation ou par la reprise de contrôle. Le processus apparaît ainsi complexe et moins définitif, avec une variété de moyens mis en oeuvre d'où ressort l'image d'un combat inachevé qui se renouvelle en permanence. D'Amérique en Asie, d'Afrique en Europe, les auteurs nous invitent à parcourir le temps long de l'évolution de la question foncière alors que l'agriculture devra bientôt nourrir 10 milliards d'habitants et que la petite et la moyenne paysannerie continuent à fournir l'essentiel des aliments mondiaux."--Page 4 of cover.