Who Owns the Environment?

By (author) Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners Contributions by Terry L. Anderson, Donald J. Boudreaux, Elizabeth Brubaker, William J. Carney, Louis De Allessi, RICHARD A. EPSTEIN author of The Classical L, Donald R. Leal, Seth W. Norton, Vernon L. Smith Nobel Prizewinning econo, Richard E. Wagner Harris Professor of Economics, George Mason University, Bruce Yandle

Publication date:

20 August 1998

Length of book:

368 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

237x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780847690817

The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to Who Owns the Environment? explore numerous theoretical and empirical possibilities for remedying these problems. An important book for environmental economists and those interested in environmental policy.

Chapter 1 Property Rights and Externalities: Problems and Solutions
Chapter 2 Private Property Rights as the Basis for Free Market Environmentalism
Chapter 3 Property Rights, the Environment, and Economic Well-Being
Chapter 4 Property Rights as a Natural Order: Reciprocity Evolutionary and Experimental Considerations
Chapter 5 The Common Law and the Environment: The Canadian Experience
Chapter 6 Coase, Pigou, and Environmental Rights
Chapter 7 Existence Values and Other of Life's Ills
Chapter 8 From Stakeholders to Stockholders: A View from Organizational Theory
Chapter 9 Habitat Preservation: A Property Rights Perspective
Chapter 10 Viewing Wildlife through Coase-Colored Glasses
Chapter 11 Cooperating on the Commons: Case Studies in Community Fisheries
Chapter 12 The Constitutional Protection of Private Property
Chapter 13 Index

Who Owns the Environment throws down a challenge to society: if we really want to protect the natural world, we need to be ready to pay for it. . . . accessible to scholars from many backgrounds, including the humanities. Anyone with an interest in property rights and environmental issues would benefit from reading this book.