Governing Access to Essential Resources / Katharina Pistor, Olivier De Schutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schutter, Olivier de, editor.

Pistor, Katharina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Environmental policy.

Environmental management.

Environmental law.

Natural resources--Management.

Natural resources.

Water resources development.

Water-supply--Management.

Water-supply.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are strangling access to resources for some while delivering prosperity to others, many are searching for ways to ensure their fair distribution.This book argues that the division of essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity. Voice is the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed. Reflexivity is the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process. Having investigated the allocation of essential resources in places as varied as Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, the arid American West, and peri-urban areas in West Africa, the contributors to this volume largely concur with the viability of this policy and normative framework. Drawing on their expertise in law, environmental studies, anthropology, history, political science, and economics, they weigh the potential of Voice and Reflexivity against such alternatives as pricing mechanisms, property rights, common resource management, political might, or brute force.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PART 1. Analytical Framework

Introduction / Schutter, Olivier De / Pistor, Katharina

PART 2. Essential Resources: Challenges Ahead

2. Land's Essentiality and Land Governance / Hall, Derek

3. Governing Boundaries / Schlager, Edella

4. Property Theory, Essential Resources, and the Global Land Rush / Dagan, Hanoch

5. MultipliCity / Anand, Nikhil

PART 3. Beyond Voice and Reflexivity

6. Voice, Reflexivity, and Say / Pils, Eva

7. Tenure Security and Exclusion Processes in Peri-urban Areas and Rural Hinterlands of West African Cities / Durand-Lasserve, Alain

8. Redirecting Regulation? / Dwyer, Michael B.

9. Erosion of Essential Resources in Neoliberal India / Vakulabharanam, Vamsi

10. Comparing Water Access Regimes Under Conditions of Scarcity / Cox, Michael

PART 4. Governing Essential Resources in Action

11. Go with the Flow / Casado-Pérez, Vanessa

12. Ecology / McKenzie, Scott

13. Water Scarcity in Morocco / Hursh, John

14. Solving Transborder Water Issues in Changing Climate Scenarios of South Asia / Neupane, Nilhari

15. Voice and Reflexivity in Essential Resources / Macharia, Laila

16. Do Traditional Institutions Matter in Participatory Essential Resource Governance Systems in Zimbabwe? / Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai

17. Local Corporationss / Krueger, James

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231540766

0231540760

OCLC:

940679926