Land, Property, and the Environment

by Richards, John F.

• ISBN13: 9781558155169
• ISBN10: 1558155163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Ics Pr

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations	vii
A Note from the Publisher	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Toward a Global System of Property Rights in Land	13	(25)
John F. Richards
Harvests of Chance: Corporate Control of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan	38	(33)
Philip C. Brown
Property Rights on Imperial China's Frontiers	71	(23)
Peter C. Perdue
Land as Law: Negotiating the Meaning of Property in Indonesia	94	(44)
Anna Tsing
Land Tenure, Traditions of Thought about Land, and Their Environmental Implications in Tanzania	138	(41)
James Giblin
The Coevolution of Property Rights Regimes for Land, Man, and Forests in Thailand, 1790-1990	179	(43)
David Feeny
Tragedies of Privatization: Land, Liberty, and Environmental Change in Spain and Italy, 1800-1910	222	(13)
John R. McNeill
Defining Property Rights in Land in Colonial India: Gorakhpur Region in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	235	(28)
Meena Bhargava
John F. Richards
State Property Rights in Nature (with Special Reference to India)	263	(35)
Ronald J. Herring
Water Rights in South Asia and the United States: Comparative Perspectives, 1873-2000	298	(40)
James L. Wescoat, Jr.
Property Regimes for Sustainable Resource Management	338	(17)
Daniel W. Bromley
Sustaining the Community, Resisting the Market: Guatemalan Perspectives	355	(27)
Stephen Gudeman
Alberto Rivera
Community and the Market in Modem American Property Law	382	(33)
Eric T. Freyfogle
About the Contributors	415	(2)
Index	417