In this essay, I ask what conception of property rights best reconciles the often conflicting claims of liberal freedoms and ecological sustainability. I argue that environmental concerns demand a reformulation of property rights in land, but that other spheres of property rights can be left...

Recent Latin American constitutions tend to share two peculiar features: they recognize and protect the collective and inalienable land ownership of ethnic groups to their ancestral lands; they also declare the State's duty to ensure access to land property to the landless through the allocation...