Who Owns the Environment?

by Peter J. Hill, Roger E. Meiners, Terry L. Anderson (Contribution by), Donald J. Boudreaux professor of economics, George Mason University (Contribution by), Elizabeth Brubaker (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461647058
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/20/1998
Series:	The Political Economy Forum
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online - Leigh Raymond

The book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature of environmental reform. .. for the serious analyst, it is an essential addition.

The Washington Times - Jonathan H. Adler

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