1st Edition

Earth Jurisprudence Private Property and the Environment

By Peter Burdon Copyright 2015
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment explores how an alternative conception of property might be instead grounded in the... Read more

Acknowledgements,  Introduction: Series Editor Anna Grear,  Foreword: Professor Klaus Bosselmann,  Chapter One: Introduction,  Chapter Two: Anthropocentrism and Private Property,  Chapter Three: Earth Community,  Chapter Four: A Theory of Earth Jurisprudence,  Chapter Five: Private Property Revisited,  Epilogue: The Great Work,  Bibliography

Biography

Peter D. Burdon is based at Adelaide Law School