The Technology of Property Rights

by Anderson, Terry L.; Hill, Peter J.; Yandle, Bruce; Landry, Clay J.; Naeser, Robert B.; Smith, Mark Griffin; Walker, Barrett P.; Huppert, Daniel; Knapp, Gunnar; Christainsen, Gregory B.; Gothberg, Brian C.; Michalak, Anna M.; Gerard, David; LeCain, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780742520615
• ISBN10: 0742520617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Technology of Property Rights combines the understanding of institutions and institutional change with a discussion of the latest technologies and their influence on the measurement and monitoring of property rights. The contributors analyze specific applications for fisheries, whales, water quality, various pollutants, as well as other pressing environmental issues. No other work brings together an economic understanding of environmental issues with technological expertise in the way this volume does.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: The Technology of Property Rights	xi
Terry L. Anderson
Peter J. Hill
Legal Foundations for Evolving Property Rights Technologies	1	(22)
Bruce Yandle
The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Water Rights Management	23	(16)
Clay J. Landry
Enforcing Property Rights in Western Water: Is It Better to Be Upstream with a Shovel or Downstream with a Model?	39	(18)
Robert B. Naeser
Mark Griffin Smith
Using Geographic Information System Mapping and Education for Watershed Protection through Better-Defined Property Rights	57	(22)
Barrett P. Walker
Technology and Property Rights in Fisheries Management	79	(22)
Daniel Huppert
Gunnar Knapp
The Potential of High Technology for Establishing Tradable Rights to Whales	101	(22)
Gregory B. Christainsen
Brian C. Gothberg
Feasibility of Contaminant Source Identification for Property Rights Enforcement	123	(24)
Anna M. Michalak
Property Rights and Technological Innovation: Legal Remedies and Pollution Abatement in U.S. Mining	147	(22)
David Gerard
Timothy J. LeCain
Index	169	(10)
About the Political Economy Forum and the Authors	179