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, Donald R. Leal, Seth W. Norton, Vernon L. Smith, Richard E. Wagner, Bruce Yandle
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Publication date:
20 August 1998Length of book:
368 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781461647058
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.
The book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature of environmental reform . . . for the serious analyst, it is an essential addition.