Who Owns the Environment?

Peter J. Hill · Roger E. Meiners

Aug 1998 · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

About this ebook

The past several decades have witnessed a growing recognition that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Despite agreement that an absence of well-defined and consistently enforced property rights results in the exploitation of air, water, and other natural resources, there is still widespread disagreement about many aspects of America's property rights paradigm. The prominent contributors to Who Owns the Environment? explore numerous theoretical and empirical possibilities for remedying these problems. An important book for environmental economists and those interested in environmental policy.

About the author

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).