Gebundenes Buch

Property Rights from Below

Commodification of Land and the Counter-Movement

Herausgeber: De Schutter, Olivier; Rajagopal, Balakrishnan

Beschreibung

As formerly community-owned land and natural resources are privatized and titling schemes proliferate, Property Rights from Below questions the trend towards treating land as a commodity and explores alternatives to the Western model.

Autor

Olivier De Schutter is Professor at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, and at SciencesPo (Paris). He is also a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food between 2008 and 2014 and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at Berkeley University, USA. Balakrishnan Rajagopal is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he is the head of the International Development Group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the founding director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice and the Displacement Research and Action Network. He is an active member and one of the founders of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) network of scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9781138657243
• ISBN-10: 1138657247
• Artikelnr.: 58411483