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Community on Land: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest

Community on Land: Community, Ecology, and the Public Interest

Paperback

Series: New Social Formations

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0742501612
ISBN13: 9780742501614
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jun 11 2002
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
This book looks to the history of the _the commons_ in American and European social thought to better understand contemporary environmental problems. The authors show how American law governing lands and resources relies on the individualist assumptions of Enlightenment thinkers, who regarded land as _wasted_ when not being _improved_ by European agriculture or colonization. Curry and McGuire trace the history of this philosophical and historical legacy and reveal its strong influence on American concepts on community and land. They not only reveal the law's insufficient comprehension of community rights, but they also advocate realistic policy alternatives whereby community governance can better solve the challenges of resource management and other American social problems.

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