Who Owns the Environment?

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

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).

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