Sharing Territories - Overlapping Self-Determination and Resource Rights

In Sharing Territories, Cara Nine defends a river model of territorial rights. On a river model, groups are assumed to be interdependent and overlapping. Drawing on natural law philosophy, Nine's theory argues for the establishment of foundational territories around geographical areas like rivers.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Introduction


• PART 1: Foundational Titles and Overlapping Individual Rights


• 2: Natural Law, Methods, and Basic Needs


• 3: Foundational Titles and Basic Needs


• 4: Resource Domains: 'Enough and as good' and Sustainability


• 5: Residence


• 6: Social Relations: Relational Autonomy and Place


• PART 2: Foundational Territories and Overlapping Self-Determination


• 7: Self-Determination and Overlapping Territories


• 8: Place, Self-Determination, and Foundational Territories


• 9: Self-Determination as Functional Autonomy


• 10: Vertical institutional Structures: Metajurisdictional Authority and Subsidiarity


• PART 3: Applications


• 11: Settler Colonialism


• 12: Resource Rights


• 13: The Global Commons: Antarctica and Forest Carbon Sinks


• References

About the author

Cara Nine is Chair of Philosophy at University of Nevada, Reno. Before arriving at UNR, she taught in the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Ireland. She was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and her BA in Philosophy from Carleton College Her first book, Global Justice and Territory (OUP, 2012), won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2013 and the Brian Farrell 2013 Book Prize. She has served as the President of the Irish Philosophical Society, and has been awarded grants by the Irish Research Council and the Research Council of Norway.

Summary

In Sharing Territories, Cara Nine defends a river model of territorial rights. On a river model, groups are assumed to be interdependent and overlapping. Drawing on natural law philosophy, Nine's theory argues for the establishment of foundational territories around geographical areas like rivers.

Product details

• Authors: Cara Nine, Cara (Associate Professor and Chair of Philo Nine, Nine Cara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780198833628
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883362-8
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: New Topics in Applied Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Jurisprudence, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law