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16 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 763 (2003-2004)
Back to the Basics: Improved Property Rights Can Help Save Ecuador's Rainforests

handle is hein.journals/gintenlr16 and id is 773 raw text is: NOTE Back to the Basics: Improved Property Rights can Help Save Ecuador's Rainforests KRISTEN HITE* CONTENTS I. Introduction ............................................. 764 II. The Need for Sustainable Land Management in Ecuador's Tropical Forests . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767 A. Defining Sustainable Land Use ............................ 767 B. Sustainable Management Techniques ....................... 768 1. Agroforestry ..................................... 768 2. Selective Logging ................................. 769 III. Challenges to Sustainability: The Need for Equitable, Exclusive, and Enforceable Rights ........................................ 770 A. The Need for Equitable Rights ............................ 771 1. Historical Tensions and Cultural Conflicts: Indigenous Populations and the Colonists ......................... 772 a. The Spanish Conquest ........................... 773 b. The Homestead Act of 1964: Challenges to Equitable Ownership ................................... 773 c. The Agrarian Development Law of 1994: Challenges of Multiple Ownership Systems .................... 776 2. The Case of Adverse Possession: Addressing the Needs of the Landless Poor .................................... 778 B. The Need for Exclusive Rights: Reconciling Subsurface Use with Surface Ownership ..................................... 780 1. Barriers to Exclusive Use: Shared Ownership Rights and Conflicting Laws .................................. 781 2. Resolving Exclusive Conflicts with an Equitable Lens: Subsurface Users Rarely Absorb the Environmental Surface Costs of Extraction ................................ 782 * J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University (2005); M.S. Candidate, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; B.S., B.A. Wofford College (2000). The author appreciates the academic assistance of Professor Peter Byrne and the observations of Silvia GonzAlez-Medina and Minister Santiago Chivez-Pareja of the Ecuadorian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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