Our Future Environment

So I’ve decided to change my paper to this:

“Competition for access to resources, whether that resource is potable water, a presidential nomination, housing, or profitable land pushes individuals and groups to construct social and economic institutions that enable such access (Radin, 1993; Schwartz, 2006). This paper will discuss access to private land as it occurs in an often controversial balance between the needs and viewpoints of landowners with the needs and viewpoints of eco-tourism groups. We will explore the theories of landscapes, stewardship and psychological ownership as a way to talk about property not just as an object but also as a relation between these two groups of persons. To contextualize property as relation between persons, specifically property as land used for recreation, we will examine the relationships between landowners and people who explore caves for recreation. “

Filed under: anthro of property, natural landscape, environmental planning on April 15th, 2008