Technology of Property Rights

Terry L. Anderson is director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and author of numerous articles and books. Peter J. Hill is professor of economics at Wheaton College and a senior associate at the Political Research Center.

Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill have done it again: they have brought together a diverse group of scholars and encouraged cross fertilization between economics, history, engineering, and natural resource management. The resulting book is a fascinating exploration of the ways in which technological advances, in facilitating the definition and enforcement of property rights, can solve some of our most difficult resource problems.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: The Technology of Property RightsChapter 2 Legal Foundations for Evolving Property Rights TechnologiesChapter 3 The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Water Rights ManagementChapter 4 Enforcing Property Rights in Western Water: Is It Better to Be Upstream with a Shovel or Downstream with a Model?Chapter 5 Using Geographic Information System Mapping and Education for Watershed Protection through Better-Defined Property RightsChapter 6 Technology and Property Rights in Fisheries ManagementChapter 7 The Potential of High Technology for Establishing Tradable Rights to WhalesChapter 8 Feasibility of Contaminant Source Identification for Property Rights EnforcementChapter 9 Property Rights and Technology Innovation: Legal Remedies and Pollution Abatement in U.S. Mining