Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies, and Lee Godden -- Caring as country : singing up sovereignties / Bawaka Country, including Kate Lloyd, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Sarah Wright, Lara Daley, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr and Djawundil Maymuru -- Plural property / Kirsten Anker Regimes of dispossession Michael Levien -- The structure and spirit of Chinese property law / Shitong Qiao -- Mine community displacement and resettlement in South Africa / Hanri Mostert and Gaopalelwe Mathiba -- Disaster, relocation, and property/ Caroline Compton -- Property, climate change, and community relocation in the Pacific / Rebecca Monson -- Form and function in property theory : new contexts of climate conflict / Daniel Fitzpatrick -- Condominium : a transformative innovation in property and local government / Douglas C. Harris -- Property and the right to housing : synergies and tensions Jessie Hohmann -- Homelessness as a legal phenomenon / Christopher Essert -- Boundaries, fortresses, and home ownership / Sarah Blandy and Rowland Atkinson -- The position of squatters in property law / Robin Hickey -- Property, housing, and aged care / Eileen Webb and Teresa Somes -- A critical race feminist reading of the South African property law / Laetitia Makombe -- Property and the regulation of houses in communities on Indigenous land / Leon Terrill -- Habitat and home / Margaret Davies -- Notes from the periphery : finding more than (non)ownership in property law? / Estair Van Wagner -- Decolonising property law : realising the sense of Indigenous laws in Aotearoa New Zealand / Jacinta Ruru -- The public trust doctrine, property and society / Erin Ryan -- Global land grabs, food and power / Philip McMichael -- Property and environmental markets / Bonnie Holligan --Property in water? / Cristy Clark and Erin O'Donnell -- Property, climate change, and accountability / Lynda L. Butler -- Animals and property : a person possessed Johanna Gibson -- Stewardship : retrofitting private property with the public interest in ecology / Laura Schuijers and Judy Bush -- A relational approach to property / Jennifer Nedelsky -- Territory and property / Nicholas Blomley -- Property and commons : the tangible and the intangible / Christopher Gerrard and Henry Jones -- Public property / John Page -- Property, acquisition and compensation : environmental regulation and cultural loss / Lee Godden -- Property and planning / Amelia Thorpe -- Property and race / Priya S. Gupta -- Gender-sensitive subjective data on land and property rights / Joseph Feyertag -- Property rights and power across rural landscapes / Nicole Graham and Jessica A. Shoemaker -- Property and social identities / Debbie Becher -- Ownership without control? Mortgage finance and changing formations of property / Sarah Keenan.

"This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property. Property touches on many fundamental human questions. It involves decisions about power, economy, morality, work and ecology. And involves ideas about where humans fit in the world and how humans relate to more-than-human life. This book will ask in myriad ways such questions as: what property means, what kinds of property there are, what is and should be the relationship between owned and owner, and what is the impact of different forms of property on life in this world? Drawing on a range of socio-legal and empirical methodologies, renowned scholars, and rising stars in property from around the world present current issues and map future directions in research. Coming from the place of law but reaching out through cognate disciplines, this handbook provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of current research at the interface of property, society and the environment. This handbook will appeal to students and researchers across a range of disciplines including law, sociology, geography, history, and economics"--

English.