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
Property Rights in Outer Space: Mining, Techno-Utopian Imaginaries, and the Privatisation of the Off-World Frontier
1st Edition
By Matthew Johnson
September 29, 2025
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...
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 from Below: Commodification of Land and the Counter-Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Olivier De Schutter, Balakrishnan Rajagopal
June 14, 2022
Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world. As formerly community-owned land and natural resources are privatized and titling schemes proliferate, Property Rights from Below questions the trend toward ...
Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls: Rise, Publicness and Consequences
1st Edition
By Yiming Wang
September 30, 2021
Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban space, the rise, publicness and consequences of ...
Wicked Valuations: People and Landed Property
1st Edition
By Michael McDermott
September 30, 2021
Traditional valuation approaches are increasingly recognised as being insufficient to address the wicked valuation problems of the diverse peoples and groups that inhabit the globe from north, south, east to west. This book demonstrates the limitations of science and, in particular economics, as ...
Compulsory Property Acquisition for Urban Densification
1st Edition
Edited
By Glen Searle
June 30, 2021
Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world. This book explores international examples of the property rights tensions involved in attempting to develop denser, more sustainable cities through compulsory acquisition of property. The case studies ...
Strata Title Property Rights: Private governance of multi-owned properties
1st Edition
By Cathy Sherry
June 30, 2021
Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world. This book critically analyses the legal, social and economic complexities of strata or community title schemes. At a time when ...
Property Rights and Climate Change: Land use under changing environmental conditions
1st Edition
Edited
By Fennie van Straalen, Thomas Hartmann, John Sheehan
December 18, 2020
Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the ...
Property, Place and Piracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Fredriksson, James Arvanitakis
December 18, 2020
This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated. Piracy is understood as acts and practices that emerge in zones where the construction and definition of property is ambiguous. Media piracy ...
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
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 ...