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Property Rights for a New World: Adapting to an Ethic of Sustainability
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Strack, Mick |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY This paper reviews some of the standard conceptions of property, acknowledging that western property regimes have served the requirements for productive land and resource use, enabled economic growth, and provided a focus on individual rights. Balanced against this, a review of the emerging concept of sustainability suggests that environmental integrity, social equity and a responsibility for the common good are necessary requirements for continued existence on this earth. The paper then contextualises the discussion to the New Zealand tenure review programme implemented during the last decade to reassign property rights in the South Island high country. The goals of the programme include the more effective management of the land, protection and restoration of land, and provision of public access. These goals seem to correlate with aspects of the sustainability goals, but in fact there has been much concern that it is reinforcing and expanding the property rights of previous leaseholders, who obtain freehold title freed from most management constraints, and are therefore able to profit from new uses and development opportunities, higher valuations, while also being able to significantly alter the iconic landscapes. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2010/papers/ts10a/ts10a_strack_4149.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
