Land Resources Law

Abstract

The resource of soil is finite. It is the basis for life and nutrition of all human life. It was Rousseau who stated in his thesis about the root and the basis of inequality among human individuals that many of the worldwide conflicts occur because few people accumulate huge amounts of soil at the cost of the many. That being said, Rousseau, in principle, was not an advocate of collective property. He did, however, notice that those who have the ownership over the finite amounts of soil and water would be able to enforce power over those who, without owning the actual resources, were in need of their usage. In this context, Aristotle is of interest. According to him, there was a sound proportion of property. He vowed for a global order of economy and the law that would grant humans property as a means to the free expression of their individuality and security—the latter in the nutritional-scientific sense of food safety and food sovereignty—that would, however, not be granted as a means to unlimited growth of possession nor as a means to a way of power over others. This thesis sheds light onto whether our global and national law system of today is capable of providing a solution for the aforementioned conflict that has spanned the centuries.