Customary Property and the Rule of Law
Informal Housing and Natural Resource Conflict in Latin America
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Customary Property and the Rule of Law
Informal Housing and Natural Resource Conflict in Latin America
About this book
Informal housing and natural resource conflicts are common in Latin America. However, academics have rarely linked these social phenomena. This book proposes customary property (an extralegal entitlement founded in the social norms of a given community) as a common lens to analyze, understand, and potentially solve the struggles that are found in informal housing and mining natural resource conflict. This book shows how land titling policies inspired in De Soto's work have failed in taming the expansion of informal housing. Moreover, this book contests the mainstream explanation for social unrest in developing new mining projects which attributes it to the separation of surface and mining rights. Finally, the book proposes that the tension between customary property and lack of law enforcement by the State can progressively corrode the rule of law. This book proposes a nuanced version of land titling for informal housing, and a social license legal proceeding for the development of new mining projects. Ultimately, the book aadvocates for replacing violence between customary holders and the State with peaceful legal proceedings and negotiation tables. This book is directed to any property scholars and students interested in developing countries, social norms over assets, and natural resource conflicts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Property, Social Norms, and the Rule of Law
- 2 Informal Housing and How Land Titling Policies Have Failed
- 3 Customary Property and Mining Natural Resource Conflicts
- 4 Mining Natural Resource Conflicts and a Potential Path to Soothe Social Unrest
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Stages in a Mining Project
- Appendix 2: Stakeholders in the Mining Cases
- Appendix 3: Technical Information on the Mining Cases
- Appendix 4: Economic Obligations under a Mining Concession and Communities Participation Right
- Index