Private Land Conservation
Articles and Comments Compiled by the Property and Environment Research Center
The eight articles and three commentaries that make up this volume all share a perspective based on free market environmentalism. PERC pioneered the approach, which is based on the idea that good resource stewardship doesn't depend on the command-and-control mechanisms of mandatory government regulation. These articles explore various aspects of a more voluntary stewardship, one based on mutuality and reciprocity. In this issue, you will recognize some familiar Journal topics. We've looked before at private property solutions to public environmental problems. you will find here an illuminating article on New Mexico's own Valles Caldera Trust, neither the first nor surely last Journal article dealing with the innovative meld of public and private ownership at that recently purchased federal site.
Natural Resources Journal
Spring 2004, Vol. 4, No.2
The University of New Mexico School of Law
MSC11 6070
1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
$15
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