Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection

Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection

Description

All solutions to environmental problems depend on the imposition of private, common, or public-property rights in natural resources. Who should own the resources: private individuals, private groups of "stakeholders", or the entire society (the public)? Contrary to much of the literature in this field, this book argues that no single property regime works best in all circumstances. Environmental protection requires the use of multiple property regimes--including admixtures of private, common, and public-property systems.

  • First book to systematically compare the utility and limitations of a variety of property regimes for environmental protection
  • Focuses on the institutional and technological factors that constrain both environmental protection and the imposition of property rights
  • Provides a basis for understanding why societies rely on multiple property regimes for environmental protection

ISBN

9780521001090 (pb.), 9780511028892 (ebook)

Publication Date

2002

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

Cambridge, UK

Keywords

Public property, common property, private property, environmental protection, mixed property, ownership

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Land Use Law | Law | Natural Resources Law

Comments

Full bibliographic details available in IUCAT

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library K 3585 .C658 2002

Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection

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