Pistor / De Schutter Governing Access to Essential Resources

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-54076-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

This book argues that essential resources ought to be governed by a combination of Voice and Reflexivity: the ability of social groups to choose the rules by which they are governed and the opportunity to question one's own preferences in light of competing claims and to accommodate them in a collective learning process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pistor, Katharina

De Schutter, Olivier

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Sachenrecht Grundstücks- und Immobilienrecht, Immobiliarsachenrecht, Nachbarrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Analytical Framework
1. Introduction: Towards Voice and Reflexivity, by Olivier De Schutter and Katharina Pistor
Part 2: Essential Resources: Challenges Ahead
2. Land's Essentiality and Land Governance, by Derek Hall
3. Governing Boundaries: Exclusion, Essential Resources, and Sustainability, by Edella Schlager
4. Property Theory, Essential Resources, and the Global Land Rush, by Hanoch Dagan
5. MultipliCity: Water, Rules and the Making of Connections in Mumbai, by Nikhil Anand
Part 3: Beyond Voice and Reflexivity
6. Voice, Reflexivity, and Say: Governing Access to and Control of Land in China, by Eva Pils
7. Tenure Security and Exclusion Processes in Peri-urban areas and Rural Hinterlands of West African Cities, by Alain Durand-Lasserve
8. Redirecting Regulation? Land Titling and Cambodia's Post-Neoliberal Conjuncture, by Michael B. Dwyer
9. Erosion of Essential Resources in Neoliberal India: A Bottom-Up View, by Vamsi Vakulabharana
10. Comparing Water Access Regimes Under Conditions of Scarcity: The Tale of two Communities in the United States, by Michael Cox
Part 4: Governing Essential Resources in Action
11. Go with the Flow: Lessons from Water Management and Water Markets for Essential Resources, by Vanessa Cassado-Pérez
12. Ecology: Water Governance's Missing Link, by Scott McKenzie
13. Water Scarcity in Morocco: Voice, Narrative, and Essential Resource Governance, by John Hursh
14. Solving Trans-Border Water Issues in Changing Climate Scenarios of South Asia: A Theoretical Illustration Using a Principal-Agent Bargaining Approach, by Nilhari Neupane
15. Voice and Reflexivity in Essential Resources: Reforming the Community Land Regime in Kenya, by Laila Macharia
16. Do Traditional Institutions Matter in Participatory Essential Resource Governance Systems in Zimbabwe?, by Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
17. Local Corporations: An Organizational Form to Reduce Information Costs and Maintain Supportive Resources, by James Krueger
Epilogue, by Olivier De Schutter and Katharina Pistor
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katharina Pistor teaches at Columbia Law School and directs its Center on Global Legal Transformation. She is widely recognized for her scholarship on privatization, property rights, comparative corporate law and governance, and law and finance. In 2012, she was a co-awardee of the Max Planck Research Award for her work on international financial regulation.

Olivier De Schutter teaches international law at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and Sciences Po (Paris). A specialist in economic and social rights, he is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food and currently serves as a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, New York University, and the University of California, Berkeley.