Unless you are well into middle age or were a precocious student, you probably have little memory of the United States without the Environmental Protection Agency and the host of federal statutes it implements.
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Market Plan Can Ease State Water Shortage
The Orange County RegisterFebruary 16, 1998 By Terry L. Anderson The Issue: Our water programs don’t work well because they are predicated on politics, not market factors. Just as El Nino rains are sending rivers over their banks, the Resources Agency of California has released a draft of the California Water Plan predicting statewide shortagesContinue reading “Market Plan Can Ease State Water Shortage”
Who Will Save the Wild Tiger?
The tiger, which once ranged throughout Asia, faces extinction in the wild. The only way to save it is to provide incentives that make people who live near tigers want to conserve them, says Michael 't Sas-Rolfes.
The Mining Law of 1872: Is it Worth Saving?
Q. Why did you write about the Mining Law of 1872? Gerard: The Mining Law was the subject of my doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois. I was interested in environmental issues, and mining has short and long-term environmental implications. I also think that the Mining Law provides excellent examples of how lawsContinue reading “The Mining Law of 1872: Is it Worth Saving?”
Who Owns the Environment?
Peter J. Hill and Roger E. Meiners, Editors Environmental issues are fundamentally property rights issues. This volume provides an overview of property rights and the environment and extends the research frontier on numerous ownership issues. From a study of community efforts to solve the problem of the commons to lessons from experimental economics, theContinue reading “Who Owns the Environment?”
The Price We Pay
Our nation’s federal land management agencies fail to meet any reasonable standard of fiscal responsibility, making the public foot the bill with hundreds of millions of tax dollars.
Common Ground?
There are areas of common ground between traditional environmentalists and classical liberals, such as protecting rights and protecting ecosystems.
The Mining Law of 1872: Digging a Little Deeper
The 1872 Mining Law, which governs the transfer of rights to mine gold, silver, copper, uranium and other hardrock minerals from federal lands, is the subject of continuing and sometimes rancorous controversy.
Terry Anderson Explains Free Market Environmentalism
By Candice Jackson Mayhugh Stanford Review REVIEW: According to the Hoover Institution, your appointment as senior fellow represents the first time that Hoover has directed attention to environmental issues. What do you think about this, and what are some of the projects you are planning to begin when you arrive at Hoover? ANDERSON: IContinue reading “Terry Anderson Explains Free Market Environmentalism”
Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment
By Bruce Yandle People have always faced the challenge of living in a world with incomplete property rights, that part of the world known as “the commons.” The book explains how two approaches have emerged for dealing with the commons: evolved rules based on common sense and common law provide one potential solution to theContinue reading “Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment”