The Technology of Property Rights

Contributions by Bruce Yandle, Clay J. Landry, Robert B. Naeser, Mark Griffin Smith, Barrett P. Walker, Daniel Huppert, Gunnar Knapp, Gregory B. Christainsen, Brian C. Gothberg, Anna M. Michalak, David Gerard, Timothy J. LeCain Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Peter J. Hill

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Publication date:

06 October 2001

Length of book:

200 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461711513

The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environmental issues with technological expertise in the way this volume does.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Technology of Property Rights
Chapter 2 Legal Foundations for Evolving Property Rights Technologies
Chapter 3 The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Water Rights Management
Chapter 4 Enforcing Property Rights in Western Water: Is It Better to Be Upstream with a Shovel or Downstream with a Model?
Chapter 5 Using Geographic Information System Mapping and Education for Watershed Protection through Better-Defined Property Rights
Chapter 6 Technology and Property Rights in Fisheries Management
Chapter 7 The Potential of High Technology for Establishing Tradable Rights to Whales
Chapter 8 Feasibility of Contaminant Source Identification for Property Rights Enforcement
Chapter 9 Property Rights and Technology Innovation: Legal Remedies and Pollution Abatement in U.S. Mining

Fascinating case studies demonstrating how improvements in technology, especially recent advances in satellite imaging and computer technology, are lowering the costs of: improving water quality, enforcing catch limits in fisheries, and detecting the sources of harmful emissions. New technologies are lowering the costs of defining, defending, and exchanging property rights to environmental resources, raising their values, thereby preventing their premature exploitation.