In this essay, I ask what conception of property rights best reconciles the often conflicting claims of liberal freedoms and ecological sustainability. I argue that environmental concerns demand a reformulation of property rights in land, but that other spheres of property rights can be left...

The paper develops a model that shares common features with the computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. It is used to address two questions. First, what are the future prospects of a green gross domestic product (GDP), should we be concerned for resource degradation or not, and to what...

This paper connects the discussion on the trade-offs between agricultural production and environmental concerns, including the asserted need for global land use expansion; and the issues of rural livelihoods and food security. Several widespread narratives are challenged. The key insights are:...

In 2014, the Australian Government amended the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 (Cth) to establish an ‘Emissions Reduction Fund,' (‘ERF') which the Government will use to purchase ‘carbon credits' from greenhouse gas (‘GHG') emitters who have voluntarily agreed to...