Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild A...

Animal Property RightsA Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals\nAuthor(s): John Hadley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739189252, 978-0739189252\nSynopsis\nAnimal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals represents the first attempt to extend liberal property rights theory across the species barrier to animals. It broadens the traditional focus of animal rights beyond basic rights to life and bodily integrity to rights to the natural areas in which animal reside. John Hadley argues that both proponents of animal rights and environmentalists ought to support animal property rights because protecting habitat promotes ecological values and helps to ensure animals live free from human interference.\n\nHadleys focus is pragmatist he locates animal property rights within the institution of property as it exists today in liberal democracies. He argues that attempts to justify animal proper.