Workshops on Comparative Examination of Landed Property Rights

本次研讨会有助于探究影响当今和过去两个世纪中与土地有关的产权变化的全球力量。研讨会的一个关键问题是：在最近的世界历史中，土地权利是否有趋同的趋势？另一个问题是：某些财产制度是否总是导致土地退化和其他与土地有关的负面环境后果？来自几个不同学科的十几位学者参加了研讨会，他们的专业知识遍及世界许多地区。具体来说，他们在两年的时间里连续举行四届会议，每次会议都提出、批评和改进对某一世界区域的这些问题的分析。讲习班第二阶段的重点是编写一篇综合论文，从全球角度审视财产制度的趋势及其对环境问题的影响。由于其跨国关注，该项目在促进对产权演变的基本理解方面具有重要意义，并有助于就如何在当代世界管理人类使用土地进行全球政策辩论。

This workshop facilitates inquiry of the global forces influencing changes in property rights related to land today and over the past two centuries. One of the workshop's key issues is: have there been converging trends in land rights during recent world history? Another is: do certain property regimes invariably lead to land degradation and other, negative environmental outcomes related to the land? A dozen scholars from several different disciplines whose expertise reaches across a number of world regions are participating in the workshop. Specifically, they meet for four sequential sessions over a span of two years, each presenting, critiquing and refining an analysis of these issues for a given world region. A second stage of the workshop focuses on the development of a synthesizing essay that looks at trends in property regimes and their influence on environmental issues from a global perspective. The project is significant in advancing basic understanding of the evolution of property rights due to its transnational focus and contributing to global policy debates about how to govern human use of land in the contemporary world.