This essay argues that, rather than being a constitutional bulwark against environmental regulation, certain kinds of property rights can actually ease constitutional barriers created by current Supreme Court doctrine. These environmental property rights (EPRs) are either rights to prevent...

The concept of development has drawn a big debate across the globe in the past few decades as it has resulted in multi-factoral pervasive effect in the socio-political and economic realms of the people and the surrounding habitats. As the nature of development is complex and varied so is it’s...

"Permit trading is an environmental policy instrument that has received increasing levels of attention over recent years. Coming from the field of air quality management, with the European CO2 emissions trading system being the most prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as...