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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewWho 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 *
Table of ContentsChapter 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
