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

Publication date:

16 October 2001

Length of book:

200 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

236x154mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742520608

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

Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill have done it again: they have brought together a diverse group of scholars and encouraged cross fertilization between economics, history, engineering, and natural resource management. The resulting book is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which technological advances, in facilitating the definition and enforcement of property rights, can solve some of our most difficult resource problems.