Attachment, sustainability, and control over natural resources

  • In this paper, we discuss Armstrong’s account of attachment-based claims to natural resources, the kind of rights that follow from attachment-based claims, and the limits we should impose on such claims. We hope to clarify how and why attachment matters in the discourse on resource rights by presenting three challenges to Armstrong’s theory. First, we question the normative basis for certain attachment claims, by trying to distinguish more clearly between different kinds of attachment and other kinds of claims. Second, we highlight the need to supplement Armstrong’s account with a theory of how to weigh different attachment claims so as to establish the normative standing that different kinds of attachment claims should have. Third, we propose that sustainability must be a necessary requirement for making attachment claims to natural resources legitimate. Based on these three challenges and the solutions we propose, we argue that attachment claims are on the one hand narrower than Armstrong suggests, while on the other hand they can justify more far-reaching rights to control than Armstrong initially considers, because of the particular weight that certain attachment claims have.

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Author:Laura Lo Coco, Fabian Schuppert
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-674656
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.13.01.189
ISSN:1835-6842
Parent Title (English):Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
Publisher:The Global Justice Network
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2021/07/24
Date of first Publication:2021/07/24
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2022/03/23
Tag:attachment; life plans; natural resources; special rights; sustainability
Volume:13.2021
Issue:1
Page Number:17
First Page:50
Last Page:66
HeBIS-PPN:493720715
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht