Wildlife as property owners : a new conception of animal rights /
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....
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- A foundational understanding of animal property law. The nexus of animal rights and the rights of nature ; Biodiversity loss as a property law problem
- Revealing the existing body of animal property rights. The biological origins of property ; Uncovering animal rights in existing property law
- A roadmap for property ownership to benefit biodiversity ; Using legal trusts to implement a system of animal property rights ; Traditional legal pathways to formalizing animal property rights ; Leveraging property rights to aid biodiversity ; Case studies of stakeholder collaborations managing resource competition between humans and wildlife. Case study 1: Ranchers and wild horses in the West ; Case study 2: Outsourcing thick-billed parrot recovery to Mexico ; Case study 3: Traditional ecological knowledge and scientific management of caribou
- Analyzing the potential of animal property ownership ; Evaluating a property-based approach to biodiversity preservation ; The Implications for interspecies ownership on property theory
- Conclusion: Are animal property rights the rights of nature?