scholarly journals Water: A Common Treasury

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-229
Author(s):  
Rosalind Malcolm ◽  
Alison Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Communal Property ◽  
Property Model

In this chapter we argue that, because of its unique physical qualities and its importance to life and the environment, water is what Gerard Winstanley in 1649 would have characterised as a common treasury – a resource to be used in common by all. We examine the notion of water as a common treasury, and the implications that this characterisation of water has for property rights in water. We argue that a property rights system centred on neoliberal conceptions of absolute private ownership, allowing private dominion over water and its commodification, is inappropriate for water and subverts its role as a common treasury. To enable water to function effectively as a common treasury, we argue, a more appropriate property model is one that emphasises and facilitates collaboration and cooperation rather than competition – in other words, a property rights system which acknowledges and promotes communal property in its many forms.

A Public Empire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Pravilova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
State Reform ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
The Face

“Property rights” and “Russia” do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. This book refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, the book shows the emergence of the new practices of owning “public things” in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, the book looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing “the public” through the reform of property rights.

The Romantic Theory of Ownership

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Gains And Losses

This chapter examines the characteristic concerns and claims of the so-called “Romantic” theorists of work and ownership, arguing that what they have in common is best highlighted by a contrast with instrumental and utilitarian accounts of these matters. The chapter's main assertion is not that there were particular conclusions about the gains and losses of work, or about the legitimacy of private ownership, to which Romantics came and instrumentalists did not, but that the route by which they got to their conclusions was very different. Utilitarianism does not find the possessory relationship intrinsically interesting, either as a matter of morality or as a matter of social psychology. Here lies the heart of the contrast with Romanticism. The chapter considers Immanuel Kant's views on property rights and compares them with those of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Thomas Carlyle.

scholarly journals Communal Property Rights and Deforestation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Mauricio Romero ◽  
Santiago Saavedra
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Communal Property

Communal property rights and land redistributions in Late Tsarist Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 773-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Nafziger
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Communal Property

More Efficient Use of the Material Basis of Local Government: the Introduction of Concession Relations

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Valentyna Mamonova ◽  
Aleksandr Olshansky
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Communal Property ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Concession Contract

The aim of this paper is to generalize the results of the study, which concerns the func-tioning of communal property in Ukraine and support for the implementation of concession relations in the management of communal property rights of territorial communities. Relevance of the subject is conditioned by the need to improve the efficiency of municipal companies to best meet the needs of territorial community members for the respective services. Both the ne-cessity and possibility to introduce concessionary relations in communal property rights management, the basic conditions of the concession contract using the example of municipal enterprise "Severodonetskvodokanal" are defined in the article as well.http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.10.1.232

PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO THE FRUITS OF ONE'S LABOR: A NOTE ON ADAM SMITH'S JURISPRUDENCE

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMOS WITZTUM
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Natural Justice ◽  
Ethical Position ◽  
The Right ◽  
Smith Theory

This paper provides further evidence to the argument that Smith' theory of justice did not follow the natural justice school and that subsequently the ethical position on acquiring private property is not independent of the effects which such acquisition may have on the property-less individuals. I will show that the justification for private ownership is based on “reasonable expectations” which owners of assets have with regard to the fruits of the asset. The expectation to subsist through the use of one's natural assets is equally reasonable. This is not to say that Smith believed that society should equally distribute income. But it does mean that the acquisition of private property must not interfere with the rights of individuals to subsist. Consequently, distribution is clearly an important part of Smith's conception of justice.

scholarly journals Tropical Deforestation: Can Property Rights Stem the Tide?

SURG Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Daniel Bayley
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Tropical Deforestation ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
Tropical Forest Management ◽  
Market Environmentalism

In this report the property right structures surrounding tropical forest management are analyzed with a specific case study presented on tropical forests in Honduras. In order to adequately understand the set of property rights in place surrounding tropical forests, the applicable sets of property rights are laid out and explained (private, common, state, and open access). It is argued that the current property rights regimes in place surrounding tropical forests are inadequate and are the issue leading to high levels of deforestation. Conflicts and controversies surrounding the issue are presented for a counterargument and separate view of the issue. It was found that the current property rights regime in Honduras is inadequate for effective resource management as it lacks enforceability along with structure and is the prominent issue surrounding tropical deforestation. Private property rights were the most effective form of property rights found for maintaining natural resources, and it is therefore recommended that private ownership be instilled upon tropical forests to reduce the rate of deforestation. Free Market Environmentalism (FME) is offered as a solution to the current methodology for the management of tropical forests, as it advocates for private ownership and an enforceable set of rights. Therefore, it is recommended that a private property rights regime following the FME methodology replace existing state property rights in order to stem the tide of tropical deforestation.

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