The Technology of Property Rights

Herausgeber: Anderson, Terry L; Hill, Peter J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environmental issues with technological expertise in the way this volume does.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780742520608
• ISBN-10: 0742520609
• Artikelnr.: 21164082

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Technology of Property Rights Chapter 2 Legal
Foundations for Evolving Property Rights Technologies Chapter 3 The Role of
Geographic Information Systems in Water Rights Management Chapter 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 Rights Chapter 6 Technology and Property Rights in
Fisheries Management Chapter 7 The Potential of High Technology for
Establishing Tradable Rights to Whales Chapter 8 Feasibility of Contaminant
Source Identification for Property Rights Enforcement Chapter 9 Property
Rights and Technology Innovation: Legal Remedies and Pollution Abatement in
U.S. Mining