Browsing by Author "Baril, L. Katherine"

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Discussant's Comments: Global Themes Stream
(1998) Baril, L. Katherine
(From the text): "First, participants identified the need for the association itself to focus on the philosophical underpinnings or principles of operation for the study of common property. There is still the lack of clarity in the definitions, specifically the lack of a common definition of success for your work -- not that we would always agree but for the value of the dialog. I was struck by one comment that perhaps once we start talking the same language its too often because some of us have stopped talking. "Second, it was noted that the association needs a clearer articulation of the discipline itself and common language. So those of us who are practitioners, not of the common property school, can at least decide whether we want to access your research. "I work in community education and frequently during these presentations I was thinking whether my community would be able to access this information, particularly in the way it is being presented. I want to challenge you to think about crossing another "barrier" and think of yourself as community educators as well as researchers. It is very important that you effectively present your research to people who are daily dealing with these difficult issues and need the benefit of your research but that can only happen if you deliberately make information more accessible."
Private Property and the Public Trust Doctrine Developing New Paradigms for Government to Balance Individual Property Rights and Public Resource Protection
(1992) Baril, L. Katherine
"One pressure on government efforts to protect fish and wildlife habitat is the growing polarization of environmental activism and the private property rights movement. This paper suggests an historic and socio-political analysis of the legal framework and paradigms available for a pluralistic, democratic society which protects fish and wildlife habitat and manages complex issues of commons. It also will suggest some new approaches and strategies to argue that developing new models for habitat protection may need to return to very basic fundamentals of Jeffersonian agrarian democracy and the underpinnings of current private property movements. "The paper will review evolution of property theory from Native Indigenous cultures through private agrarian models to public stewardship ethics. Sustainability is fundamentally a problem of human social organization and not solely of biology or technology. Using various legal frameworks and community planning processes this paper suggests alternatives to traditional power conflicts--options which are available for social and legal organizations to stop limiting their community's creativity and to start encouraging challenged cooperation."