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As the world moves toward an international debate about how to approach environmental sustainability, this chapter provides a pivotal argument about Ius Abutendi, the right enshrined in English land law, transposed to the colonies, which is the right to “abuse” the land and waters that one owns. It examines the seemingly intractable postcolonial, deimperialized, pluricultural tensions about land and water “ownership,” resource depletion, environmental sustainability, individual and communal ownership, documentation, international legal frameworks, traditional ecological knowledge, sui generis rights, and equality of access to benefits sharing. It provides the conceptual springboard into the field of ecological education, broadly understood, that occurs in universities and classrooms, and asks questions about the pedagogical content underpinnings of the work currently being undertaken by educators about land and water education.
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Ma Rhea, Z. (2018). Beyond Ius Abutendi: Teaching About Relationality in Land and Water. In: Land and Water Education and the Allodial Principle. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7600-8_5
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