Environmental justice a way forward the deconstruction of property rights

Alma Rocío Segoviano-Basurto

doi:10.22201/fesa.figuras.2020.2.1.131

Autores

Alma Rocío Segoviano-Basurto Universidad del Medio Ambiente, Área de Derecho Ambiental y Políticas Públicas Mexico https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3197-9410

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.figuras.2020.2.1.131

Palavras-chave:

Environmental Justice, Racism, Property Rights, Sustainable Development

Resumo

Conflicts over natural resources are already among the greatest challenges of the century. The incremental increase of natural disasters due to environmental injustice is intensifying the uncertainty of life. Currently, more people are being forced to leave their homes as a form of adaptation and survival because of climate change. The global extraction of resources, generally located in territories of indigenous and impoverished populations, provokes their eviction and exacerbates marginalization. A person who owns land and resources may find reasonable to defend the current institution of property right as it is. However, the current system of property rights promotes competition and exclusion for the access to natural resources. This essay is a reflection on why Environmental Justice’s call against racism, is also a call to reconsider the current patterns of consumption, the perception of property rights, and progress. Sustainable Development cannot be achieved if is meant to be only for some.

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Biografia do Autor

Alma Rocío Segoviano-Basurto, Universidad del Medio Ambiente, Área de Derecho Ambiental y Políticas Públicas

Lawyer Specialist in Land Tenure and Property Rights including commons systems, as well as conflict mediation over land and natural resources. She holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London, an LLM from the London School of Economics- both in the UK - and an LLB from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Alma has more than 17 years of valuable experience and a unique combination of strong expertise as an evaluator, researcher, project manager, assessor and facilitator. She has collaborated with International and National Civil Society Organisations, International Organisations, Public Institutions and the Private Sector in Mexico, the UK, Austria and the US. Some of which are the former National Indigenous Institute (INI), the Environmental Studies Group-Mexico (GEA), the World Wildlife Found (WWF-MEX), the Rainforest Foundation-UK (RFF-UK) and the UK- all-party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region of Africa, among others.

As of now, she is collaborating with the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (UMA) in México with FARMCOMMONS (EEUU), with the International Monetary Fund, and Cooperación Comunitaria. She has worked for some indigenous groups, as it is to say, Nahuas communities in La Montaña region in Guerrero, México and Pygmies communities in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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