Who Owns the Environment?
Published on 20. August 1998
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-8476-9081-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. -- Leigh Raymond, University of California, Berkeley * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online * The book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature of environmental reform . . . for the serious analyst, it is an essential addition. -- Jonathan H. Adler, Competitive Enterprise Institute * The Washington Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9081-7 (9780847690817)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Peter J. Hill | Roger E. Meiners
Who Owns the Environment?
E-Book
08/1998
1st Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€73.99
Available for download
Persons
Peter J. Hill is professor of economics at Wheaton College, where he holds the George F. Bennett Chair. He is a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. He is the coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Madison Books) and coeditor of numerous books, including Wildlife in the Marketplace (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) and The Privatization Process (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996). Roger E. Meiners is professor of law and economics at the University of Texas at Arlington and a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. He is the coauthor of Gridlock in Government: How to Break the Stagnation of America and Managing in the Legal Environment, and coeditor of many books, including Taking the Environment Seriously (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993).
Content
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