Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?
Examines the development of woodland ownership in Denmark from the Middle Ages to the first half of the nineteenth century.
The anthropocentric ethic implicit in all solutions regarding global commons is contrasted with the ecocentric one which may be necessary to preserve the biosphere in the future.
Martinez-Alier discusses issues relating to the concept of “sustainable development” as used by the Brundtland Commission.
In this paper Thomas Young examines what he considers to be the three strongest arguments against destroying property as a means of defending the environment: the social fabric argument, the argument for moral consistency, and the generalization argument.
In this essay, Eric Reitan analyzes the claims of the “wise-use” movement, its implications for private property rights and the extent to which these rights should influence public policy decisions.