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Animal Property Rights - A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals (Hardcover)
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Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals
represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights
theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the
traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and
bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal
reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of animal rights
and environmentalists ought to support animal property rights
because protecting habitat promotes ecological values and helps to
ensure animals live free from human interference. Hadley's focus is
pragmatist - he locates animal property rights within the
institution of property as it exists today in liberal democracies.
He argues that attempts to justify animal property rights on labor
and first occupancy grounds will likely fail; instead, he grounds
animal property rights upon the importance of habitat for the
satisfaction of animals' basic needs. The potential of animal
property rights as a way of reinvigorating existing public policy
responses to the problem of biodiversity loss due to habitat
destruction is thoroughly explored. Using the concept of
guardianship for cognitively impaired human beings, Hadley
translates habitat rights as a right to negotiate - human guardians
ought to be allowed to negotiate, on behalf of wild animals, with
human landholders whose development activities put animals at risk.
In addition to a theory of animal property rights, Animal Property
Rights affords a critique of Donaldson and Kymlicka's wild animal
sovereignty theory, a defence of indirect approaches to animal
rights, an extensive discussion of euthanasia as a 'therapeutic
hunting' tool, and the first discussion of Locke's theory of
original acquisition in animal rights literature.
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