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Removing the Commons: A Lockean Left-Libertarian Approach to the Just Use and Appropriation of Natural Resources

  • Hardback
  • 204 pages
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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For those studying justice and environmental ethics

Explains the right to use our natural resources

Helps you evaluate fairness in a global context

Examine the ethics of natural resources through a compelling Lockean left-libertarian lens.

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Removing the Commons examines the moral condition in which people can remove--through either use or appropriation--natural resources from the commons. This task begins with a robust defense of the view that natural resources initially belong to all people. Granting that natural resources initially belong to all people, it follows that all people have a claim that limits the way in which others may go about taking or removing natural resources from the commons. In assessing these limitations, Eric Roark argues for a Lockean left-libertarian theory of justice in which all people have the right of self-ownership and may only remove natural resources from the commons if they adhere to the Lockean Proviso by leaving "enough and as good" for others. Roark's account goes beyond existing treatments of the Lockean Proviso by insisting that the duty to leave enough and as good for others applies not merely to those who appropriate natural resources from the commons, but also to those who use natural resources within the commons. Removing the Commons defends a Georgist interpretation of the Lockean Proviso in which those who remove natural resources from the commons must pay the competitive rent of their removal in a fashion that best promotes equal opportunity for welfare. Finally, Roark gives extended consideration to the implications that the developed Lockean Left-Libertarian account of removing natural resources from the commons poses toward both global poverty and environmental degradation.
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  • Title

    Removing the Commons: A Lockean Left-Libertarian Approach to the Just Use and Appropriation of Natural Resources

  • Author

    Eric Roark

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Lexington Books

  • Published

    August 2013

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    204

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780739174685

  • ISBN-10

    0739174681

  • Eden Code

    4731675