Title: Land and property rights: some remarks on basic concepts and general perspectives
Abstract: The institution of real property in private ownership has become universal by replacing the regime of common property largely for functional reasons. Being related to an individual owner and his limited life span, private ownership is insensitive to long-term effects. It needs complementary devices to become long lasting, especially with respect to the environment and natural resources. The juridical system is about to evolve towards this perspective. It is supported by the concept of `property rights'. This decomposes the compact command over resources into a bundle of rights and duties and liases it with institutional precautions at various levels, local, national and global. The competing concept of centralized planning and nationalized land has failed in this respect. In the countries of the South, specific variants of land management have to be conceived, introduced and routinized which should learn from universal ideas. Likewise, a process of social adaptation in response to the particular cultural identities is indispensable. The various slum legalization and regularization ventures under way are examples of this internalization. Their smallness reflects an evolutionary strategy. It suffices that some ventures succeed to change the course of subsequent development.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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