Occupancy Rights and the Wrong of Removal

Water Crisis Adaptation: Defending a Strong Right Against Displacement from the Home

“…36-43;Stilz 2013). Both authors 1 A property-rights approach presents an alternative to the consequentialist account.…”

Who owns it? Three arguments for land claims in latin america

“…It may also be that a certain way of life is at stake, and that it has particular value to the claimants-that is, land may be a means to protect a certain way of life, one that will typically involve not just the life of particular individuals but also the communities to which they belong. The people making the claims may have what Anna Stilz (2013) has called "located life plans" connected to the areas that they are claiming. So the significance of a claim will sometimes depend on the importance of the way of life of the community for its members, and in particular how the continuity of the community protects their interests in maintaining relationships and advancing life projects in the place where those projects and relationships have previously been developed and pursued (Kolers 2012).…”

“…Given population growth and scarce resources, justice may require that the original owners of land share it with others, including the descendants of those who unjustly appropriated the land from their ancestors (Waldron 1988). Furthermore, the land of which people were unjustly dispossessed may now be inhabited by people who were not involved in this dispossession and who now have located life plans tied to these territories (Stilz 2013). As for indigenous groups such as Zapatistas and the Mapuche, their "ancestral" or "historical" connections between specific communities and the land may have been severed or weakened substantially, not least during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s (Carruthers and Rodriguez 2009).…”

Resource Rights: Expanding the Scope of Liberal Theories

“…In addition to the share of generic resources that any person may claim simply as a human being, they believe that some people may submit claims to particular resources. The idea is that people may establish weighty claims to control particular objects in the natural world when they make those objects into central valued features of their lives (Miller ; Stilz ; Moore ; Armstrong ). As one writer puts it, specific objects may become “hugely significant to particular people's sense of agency, and to their ability to carry out projects to which they are deeply wedded;” or they may simply “matter deeply to people, and their identities, even in the absence of discrete projects to make use of them” (Armstrong , 122–23).…”