Who Owns the Environment?

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.

• Chapter 1 Property Rights and Externalities: Problems and SolutionsChapter 2 Private Property Rights as the Basis for Free Market EnvironmentalismChapter 3 Property Rights, the Environment, and Economic Well-BeingChapter 4 Property Rights as a Natural Order: Reciprocity Evolutionary and Experimental ConsiderationsChapter 5 The Common Law and the Environment: The Canadian ExperienceChapter 6 Coase, Pigou, and Environmental RightsChapter 7 Existence Values and Other of Life's IllsChapter 8 From Stakeholders to Stockholders: A View from Organizational TheoryChapter 9 Habitat Preservation: A Property Rights PerspectiveChapter 10 Viewing Wildlife through Coase-Colored GlassesChapter 11 Cooperating on the Commons: Case Studies in Community FisheriesChapter 12 The Constitutional Protection of Private PropertyChapter 13 Index