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Climate Change and U.S. Cities
Vulnerability, Impacts, and AdaptationsPonenciasNoviembre 2015William SoleckiWilliam Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...
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Economic Regulation of Utility Infrastructure
PonenciasMayo 2013Janice A. BeecherIn this paper, Janice A. Beecher examines public infrastructure as having characteristics of both public and private goods that earn a separate classification as a toll good. Utilities demonstrate a...
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Chicago and Its Skyway
Lessons from an Urban MegaprojectPonenciasMayo 2013Louise Nelson DybleIn this paper, Louise Nelson Dyble examines the history of political leadership throughout the Chicago Skyway’s development as a public project and assesses the lessons from its eventual...
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Metropolitan Cities
Their Rise, Role, and FuturePonenciasAbril 2013Shahid YusufIn this paper, the author points out that the world’s population crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011, more than half of it in cities. Each week the ranks of urban residents increase by 1million and on...
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Opportunities and Limits for the Evolution of Property Rights Institutions
PonenciasNoviembre 2011Thráinn EggertssonIn this paper, Thráinn Eggertsson examines how assumptions based on national politics and hard-to-obtain and limited data yield valuable tools for exploring the logic of institutional changes to...
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The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources
PonenciasNoviembre 2011Daniel H. Cole and Elinor OstromIn this paper, Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom examine the current state of property theory relative to the impressive range, scope, and depth of recent social-scientific investigations into real-...
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Gold Rush Legacy
American Minerals and the Knowledge EconomyPonenciasNoviembre 2011Karen Clay and Gavin WrightIn this paper, Karen Clay and Gavin Wright argue that the gold-mining camps of California had a more complex governance structure than economic historians have supposed. In some respects, the mining...
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Gold Rushes Are All the Same
Labor Rules the DiggingsPonenciasNoviembre 2011Andrea G. McDowellIn this paper, Andrea G. McDowell compares the California gold rush with others around the world and finds important common traits. She finds that the governance structure of California mining claims...
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Property Creation by Regulation
Rights to Clean Air and Rights to PollutePonenciasNoviembre 2011Daniel H. ColeIn this paper, Daniel H. Cole argues that, contrary to both the suppositions of some legal scholars and the theoretical underpinnings of regulatory takings doctrine, government regulations not only...
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Rights to Pollute
Assessment of Tradable Permits for Air PollutionPonenciasNoviembre 2011Nives DolšakIn this paper, Nives Dolšak examines the property-based approach to air-pollution control known as “cap-and-trade” and analyzes aspects of its institutional design and implementation, particularly...
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