The Technology of Property Rights

by Terry L. Anderson (Editor), Peter J. Hill (Editor), Bruce Yandle (Contribution by), Clay J. Landry (Contribution by), Robert B. Naeser (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461711513
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/06/2001
Series:	The Political Economy Forum
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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.

Elizabeth Brubaker

Worthwhile for anyone interested in the interface between technology and property rights.

Ideas On Liberty

Fascinating case studies demonstrating how improvements in technology, especially recent advances in satellite imaging and computer technology, are lowering the costs of: improving water quality, enforcing catch limits in fisheries, and detecting the sources of harmful emissions. New technologies are lowering the costs of defining, defending, and exchanging property rights to environmental resources, raising their values, thereby preventing their premature exploitation.

John McArthur