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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"private property"”.
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What's so private about private property?
… any—the state should implement to protect private property, and investigates how individuals and communities operating within those institutions ought to behave. Because the laws produced by such institutions may conflict with community rights, social welfare, and justice, the political …
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In defense of private property: The role of private property rights and ethics in the market economy
This paper examines the role private property rights and ethics play in a market economy, and demonstrates that in order to have a free market, it is essential to have a legal system that defines private property rights. Such a legal system can only evolve on the free market itself; Chapter I …
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Sea level rise and private property rights in shoreline management
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1996.
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Private Property in America: Land Use and the Ethics of Owning Land
Private property in the United States arose out of a tradition that emphasized the individual freedom to control holdings without interference from governmental influences. A sharp distinction between society as a whole and individual rights isolated ownership of private property from a notion of …
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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… of this research was to document and to analyze private property owner reasons and justifications for implementing, or not, the fire prevention effort of hazard fuel mitigation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 property owners in the forest proximate community of Seeley …
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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… of this research was to document and to analyze private property owner reasons and justifications for implementing, or not, the fire prevention effort of hazard fuel mitigation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 property owners in the forest proximate community of Seeley …
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Land Health as Culture and Law: A Challenge to the Contemporary Discourse on Private Property
… American legal and cultural discourses of property and the way land functions ecologically in the real world of nature. In popular and legal culture a land parcel is an owner's separate enclave; in nature a land parcel is fully intertwined with all that surrounds it. This tension stultifies …
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The Place of Private Property in Land Use Law: A Relational Examination of Ontario's Quarry Conflicts
… world to uphold the ownership model of property relations and to privilege particular forms of land use. Through documentary and interview-based qualitative research, it presents an eco-relational examination of one of the most contentious land uses in Ontario aggregate mineral …
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Private property, capital and the state in the development of white commercial farming in South Africa, 1910-1986
… free market. In their approach, protection of private property is the only path to sustainable economic development. The history of white agriculture in South Africa from 1910 demonstrates that state intervention that resolves capital deficits in the context of a competitive market economy is …
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Political philosophy and private property : an evaluation of four main types of theory concerning ownership and distribution of property in a just society
… questions: 1. Is there a natural right to property? 2. can an individual acquire exclusive control over an object independently of the actions or acquiescence of others? 3. Do private property rights infringe or protect freedom? 4. Is equality a desirable goal? If so, what form of equality …
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Incentives and drivers for property owners to pursue private embedded generation through solar photovoltaic systems
… consequently, on residential and non-residential private property owners. Furthermore, the country is heavily reliant on coal for energy generation, which requires the move towards a more sustainable energy mix. Renewable energy generation, especially in the form of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) …
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A libertarian theory of property: its justification, critique and implications
… its implications, of the libertarian theory of property according to which property, following John Locke, is legitimately acquired through a man's mixing of his labour with unowned resources and held in perpetuity or until the owner voluntarily alienates his just claim. Libertarian theory …
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"Mine" or "Ours": Property and Moral Reasoning
… between individuals’ attitudes toward private property relations and the kinds of “active” or “passive” cognitive processes individuals use when reasoning about moral problems. A sample of 139 graduate and undergraduate students completed an online survey that contained both established …
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Institutions, the State, and Economic Development: An Analysis and Evaluation of Ha-Joon Chang's Critique of the Dominant Discourse and His Thoughts on State-Led Development Theory
… like Hernando De Soto and Douglass North, argue private property rights and free markets, and the institutions which nourish and protect them, are the primary driver of economic growth. Heterodox economists, led by prominent author and economist Ha-Joon Chang, acknowledge institutions play an …
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Tracking property performance in Japan through REIT-based pure-play property return indices
This thesis constructed unlevered pure-play property return indices based on stock prices of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in Japan. These indices are developed as a prototype of a new type of tool to track unlevered property investment performance by property usage type (sector) and …
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La nuova disciplina dell'occupazione acquisitiva: l'atto di acquisizione e giusto procedimento acquisitivo
… of illegal occupation of government on private property, so widespread anomaly in our system over the years to become a full-blown pathology in the relationship between public power and private property. With the examination of the law we will try of to understand as operate the new …
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Strategies for equitable climate change adaptation : lessons from buyback and elevation programs in Rhode Island
… what tools and resources are available to help private property owners adapt to climate change impacts, when those tools and resources should be used, and who they should help. This thesis uses qualitative methods to examine how two communities in Rhode Island, Cranston and Westerly, have …
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The Trend Towards Socialism in Recent Law-Making
… society which proposes the abolition of private property in the great material instruments of production and the substitution therefor of collective property; and advocates the collective management of production, together with the distribution of social income, by society, and private …
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Trust and The Rule of Law: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Relationship between the Rule of Law and Economic Development
… an affinity between the rule of law and private property rights and contractual enforcement, either by using these economic freedoms as measures of the quality of rule of law compliance, or by tracing the impact of the rule of law on economic outcomes through the rule of law’s effect on …
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