Description
This collection brings a diverse range of approaches to the question of pluralism, property and natural resource management in South East Asia. This significant contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature exploring indigenous people, legal pluralism, land rights and environmentalism is a timely and persuasive overview of the fundamental role of property rights in shaping how people manage natural resources. Whereas much has been said about property rights with a focus on static definitions, this unique collection looks at the legal anthropological perspective, highlighting the coexistence and interaction between multiple legal orders such as state, customary, religious, project and local laws all of which provide bases for claiming property rights. These multiple legal frameworks also facilitate considerable flexibility for people to adapt their use of natural resources and to cope with uncertainty. Contributions to this volume reveal various shades and applications of legal pluralism concepts in natural resource management, covering resources including forest, water, fisheries and agriculture. This brand new research will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of environmental law, property law, environmental politics, anthropology, sociology and geography.
