Land and rivers can own themselves

Strack, M (2017) Land and rivers can own themselves. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 9(1), pp. 4-17. ISSN 1756-1450

Abstract

This paper describes the new-tenure arrangements that have been established to recognise Maori-relationship with land and river, to ascribe them their own legal-personality revealing that acknowledgement of land and nature as having their own legal-status and, therefore, owned by themselves.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ownership; colonialism; Māori; rivers; ancestors; land
Index terms: tenure, colonialism, personality, land, ownership
Subjects: economics, sociology, real estate economics, behavioral psychology
Topics: Organizational Design, Research Practice, Urban Studies
Descriptive scope: 1 C

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