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A Prospective Look at Property Rights and Environmental Regulation
Eagle, Steven - 2012
This Article considers the future interaction of environmental regulation and private property rights, with an emphasis on climate change issues. It concludes that environmental issues not satisfactorily resolved at the federal level will lead to more state and local regulation that impinges on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163098
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Public Choice Theory and the Public Lands : Why Multiple Use Failed
Blumm, Michael C. - 2017
This article applies public choice political theory to public lands decisionmaking and concludes that it explains why multiple-use management, the paradigm for most federal public lands, consistently overemphasizes commodity production at the expense of other values like watershed protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746878
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Agricultural and Urban Land Rent, Sharecropping, and Land Reforms : A Suggested Islamic Economic Agenda
Siddiqi, Shamim Ahmad - 2018
As the distribution of income is the central focus of Islamic economics, the nature and contribution made by different factors of production, their ownership, and rewards must be revisited in light of the guiding principles of Islam. This paper attempts to set a land reform agenda for an Islamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918996
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Patterns of Multi-Agent Land Conservation : Crowding In/Out, Agglomeration, and Policy
Albers, H. J.; Ando, Amy W.; Batz, Michael B. - 2006
This paper explores the spatial equilibrium patterns of land conservation that derive from a game between land … conservation agents who provide public goods. The shape of the conservation benefit function determines whether one agent …'s conservation crowds in/out conservation by the other agent. Value for contiguity of conservation can produce: "spatial attraction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057395
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Lot Size, Zoning, and Household Preferences : Impediments to Smart Growth?
Kopits, Elizabeth; McConnell, Virginia; Miles, Daniel - 2009
The paper explores a number of issues related to lot size and urban density. First, trends in single-family residential lot size over the past 35 years are examined in eight counties in the state of Maryland. We find that there was a trend toward larger lot sizes in many suburban counties in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208615
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The Public Trust Doctrine in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, 3rd Edition
Blumm, Michael C.; Wood, Mary C. - 2021
The public trust doctrine is an ancient doctrine of public property law that governs sovereign stewardship of natural resources. The doctrine both promote public access to trust resources and requires sovereign protection of them for the benefit of the public, including future generations. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249280
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Management Strategies for Conservation of Natural Resources in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2013
This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessment and improvement of management strategies for conservation of … governance modes (institutional environment; private, collective, market, and public modes) of natural resources conservation at … assesses the efficiency of diverse management forms and strategies for conservation of natural resources in Bulgarian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158696
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The Costs of Carbon Sequestration : A Revealed-Preference Approach
Stavins, Robert N. - 2014
The possibility of encouraging the growth of forests as a means of sequestering carbon dioxide has received considerable attention because of concerns about the threat of global climate change due to the greenhouse effect. Would this approach be as inexpensive as studies have suggested? We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073506
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The Law and Economics Approach to Property
Cole, Daniel H. - 2014
not only facilitates exchange but also supports resource conservation (via the right to exclude); (b) Coasian comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061274
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Digging Deeper into Hardin's Pasture : The Complex Institutional Structure of 'The Tragedy of the Commons'
Cole, Daniel H.; Epstein, Graham; McGinnis, Michael D. - 2014
The institutional and ecological structure of Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” appears deceptively simple: the open-access pasture eventually will be overexploited and degraded unless (i) it is privatized, (ii) the government regulates access and use, or (iii) the users themselves impose...
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