Environmental Markets - A Property Rights Approach

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation.

List of contents

1. Who owns the environment?; 2. Is government regulation the solution?; 3. Property rights for the common pool; 4. Local property rights to the commons; 5. The politics of property rights; 6. From property rights to markets; 7. Tackling the global commons; 8. Property rights, property rights, property rights.

About the author

Terry L. Anderson is the President of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His work helped launch the idea of 'free market environmentalism' with the publication of his book by that title, co-authored with Donald Leal. Dr Anderson's work emphasizes that private property rights encourage resource stewardship by harnessing the incentives of free enterprise to protect environmental quality. Anderson is the author or editor of 37 books including, most recently, Tapping Water Markets with Brandon Scarborough and Lawrence R. Watson. He has published widely in both professional journals and the popular press and has received many awards for his research and teaching. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Washington.

Summary

Environmental Markets explains the prospects of using markets to improve environmental quality and resource conservation.

Product details

• Authors: Terry L. Anderson, Terry L. Libecap Anderson, Gary D. Libecap
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9780521279659
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27965-9
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society; Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business