[…] central Arizona project, the Edwards aquifer in Texas, and the Tar-Pamlico Sound in North Carolina. Water Marketing provides insightful public policy alternatives that will stimulate a rethinking of traditional policies as they relate to water. CONTRIBUTORS: Henry Butler Peter Emerson Jeffrey Fuller David Haddock Charles Howe James Huffman Jonathan Macey David Riggs Gary Sturgess […]
[…] the political spectrum. The contributions to this volume demonstrate how the principles of fiscal responsibility and individual accountability that have been applied to economic and social policiesβessentially free market principlesβcan be applied successfully to environmental policy. The authors offer common-sense reforms as a starting point, all based on the compelling arguments that a new […]
Change is in the air. After a century of growing national control, Americans are rethinking the role of the federal government vis-Γ -vis the states. This reconsideration has led to welfare reform and to a nationwide debate over education. Now it is beginning to focus on environmental policy, too.
In spite of years of governmental restrictions on gear, catch, and seasons, fishers are over exploiting the once-productive resource their livelihoods depend on.
Over the past three decades, the environmental movement has promoted a view of American Indians as the "original conservationists"βthat is, "people so intimately bound to the land that they have left no mark upon it."
[…] around Love Canal, an abandoned waste site in Niagara Falls, New York, found chemicals leaking into their homes. Crude health studies suggested that the chemicals might have caused serious diseases and genetic problems. The State of New York declared a public health emergency. Soon, Love Canal, "toxic waste," and "ticking time bombs" became household words.
Private protection of the environment is all around us, but it often goes unnoticed. Since our beginning, PERC has worked to showcase the private efforts that preserve in the public interest.
The Privatization Process: A Worldwide Perspective Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, Editors Many economies are actively engaging in rapid privatization of state assets using a variety of procedures, some successful and some not. In this volume, several noted authorities on institutions and institutional reform analyze the prerequisites for successful privatization, the path […]
[…] regulations typically do so. But public agenciesβ budgets and political support depend on a broad-based constituency. To maintain this constituency, state agencies keep license fees low, encourage free access, andβto ensure some degree of hunter satisfactionβmanage for large herds. (The number of elk in most western states is higher than at the turn of […]
[…] in trust by the BIA (tribal trust land). The land that is privately owned is far more productive than the other two categories of tenure. Indeed, a study of agricultural land on a large cross-section of Western reservations indicates that tribal trust land is 80% to 90% less productive than privately owned land. Individual […]