Wildlife as Property Owners

A New Conception of Animal Rights

AvKaren Bradshaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-17
Mått:133 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226571362

Mer om författaren

Karen Bradshaw is professor of law and a Williard H. Pedrick Scholar at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She is also a faculty affiliate scholar with the Classical Liberal Institute at the New York University School of Law and a senior sustainability scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Bradshaw researches the intersection of property, administrative, natural resources, animal, and environmental law. She is coeditor of Wildfire Policy: Law and Economics Perspectives.

Recensioner i media

"In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Bradshaw proposes how We The People can use property law to fix human-caused problems so we can arrest the flood of biodiversity loss. This argument is a game-changing expansion in current legal thought. . . . Engrossing and meticulously researched. . . . It represents an essential, and positive, step forward in how we think about and deal with the other species on this planet. Highly recommended."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: A Foundational Understanding of Animal Property Law1: The Nexus of Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature2: Biodiversity Loss as a Property Law ProblemPart II: Revealing the Existing Body of Animal Property Rights3: The Biological Origins of Property4: Uncovering Animal Rights in Existing Property LawPart III: A Roadmap for Property Ownership to Benefit Biodiversity5: Using Legal Trusts to Implement a System of Animal Property Rights6: Traditional Legal Pathways to Formalizing Animal Property Rights7: Leveraging Property Rights to Aid Biodiversity8: Case Studies of Stakeholder Collaborations Managing Resource Competition between Humans and Wildlife Case Study 1: Ranchers and Wild Horses in the WestCase Study 2: Outsourcing Thick-Billed Parrot Recovery to MexicoCase Study 3: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Management of CaribouPart IV: Analyzing the Potential of Animal Property Ownership9: Evaluating a Property-Based Approach to Biodiversity Preservation10: The Implications of Interspecies Ownership on Property TheoryConclusion: Are Animal Property Rights the Rights of Nature?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex