The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good

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Freyfogle, Eric T. The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good. Washington: Island Press, 2003.

Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private landowner in an age of sprawling growth and declining biological diversity? These provocative questions lie at the heart of this perceptive and wide-ranging new book by legal scholar and conservationist Eric Freyfogle. — Island Press website.