Property and Environment

Abstract

Property is one of the most important regulatory mechanisms of human societies because it controls the use, distribution, and disposal of environmental resources and processes on which they depend. Property regimes vary across time, space, and culture but their common and foundational conditions and effects are environmental. Private property, however, is concerned primarily with human relationships through which the environment is externalized as a series of tradable commodities. Until recently, scholarly analyses of the ideas and practices of property have shared an anthropocentric lens, concerned with questions of distributive justice and economic efficiency. However, contemporary property research does explore the environmental conditions and effects of various property regimes – proposing reform of property models and regulatory frameworks based on revised environmental epistemologies in which humans are connected with, rather than detached from, the environment.

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