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Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series

About the Book Series

Real Property Rights are central to the global economy and provide a legal framework for how society (be it developed or customary) relates to land and buildings. We need to better understand property rights to ensure sustainable societies, careful use of limited resources and sound ecological stewardship of our land and water. Contemporary property rights theory is dynamic and needs to engage thinkers who are prepared to think outside their disciplinary limitations.

The Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series strives to take a transdisciplinary approach to understanding property rights and specifically encourages heterodox thinking. Through rich international case studies, the goal of the series is to build models to connect theory to observed reality, informing potential policy outcomes. This series is both an ideal forum and reference for students and scholars of property rights and land issues.

Video interviews with the series authors and editors can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6WmSmaP8spLX0GlFRiSjw 

4 Series Titles


People, Place and Property Rights A Political Ethnography of Land in Molo, Kenya

People, Place and Property Rights: A Political Ethnography of Land in Molo, Kenya

1st Edition

By Ulrika Kolben Waaranperä
August 26, 2024

For more than a century, property rights to land in Molo in the Kenyan highlands have been subjected to diverse reforms and desires. Colonial and independent state administrations have restructured land tenure systems to establish and maintain authority or alleviate landlessness. Meanwhile, people ...

Property Rights in Outer Space Mining, Techno-Utopian Imaginaries, and the Privatisation of the Off-World Frontier

Property Rights in Outer Space: Mining, Techno-Utopian Imaginaries, and the Privatisation of the Off-World Frontier

1st Edition

By Matthew Johnson
May 28, 2024

This book explores the role of private mining rights in the utopian imaginary of space colonisation. It presents a transdisciplinary account of the new and evolving legislative frameworks that have been established in anticipation of commercial exploitation of the mineral resources of the off-world...

Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership Indigenous Land Reform in Australia

Beyond Communal and Individual Ownership: Indigenous Land Reform in Australia

1st Edition

By Leon Terrill
June 01, 2018

Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what they do and their consequences for Indigenous ...

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict

1st Edition

Edited By Alan C. Tidwell, Barry Scott Zellen
June 07, 2017

Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary society has impacted on indigenous institutions ...

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