The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community's recent protection efforts has been on returning displaced persons to their homes following armed conflict. This prioritization has been entrenched further by the 2005 United Nations Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons (the "Pinheiro Principles"). Yet as Anneke Smit chronicles in this book, the...
The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can co...
When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community's interest prevail over the rights of private property owners? Public Interest, Private Property addresses this question at a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are forcing municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations. Case studies focus on spheres in which public values and private property rights collide ? expropriation law, natural resources regulation, green development, and water provision ? laying the groundwork for more active debates on the...
When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community's interest prevail over the rights of private proper...
When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community's interest prevail over the rights of private property owners? Public Interest, Private Property addresses this question at a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are forcing municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations. Case studies focus on spheres in which public values and private property rights collide ? expropriation law, natural resources regulation, green development, and water provision ? laying the groundwork for more active debates on the...
When it comes to urban planning, to what extent and under what conditions should the community's interest prevail over the rights of private proper...
