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1. Reinventing Conservation Easements

   A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2005
   Jeff Pidot

   Conservation easements represent one of the most rapid trends in land conservation. Beyond tax credits, tax deductions, and other public subsidies that provide financial incentive for landowners to...

2. Managing Land as Ecosystem and Economy

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 1995
   Edited by Alice E. Ingerson

   Environmentalists and resource users have banded together behind the common goal, or at least the common slogan, of “sustainable development.” What are the economic, political, and social...

3. Opportunities and Limits for the Evolution of Property Rights Institutions

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Thráinn Eggertsson

   In 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...

4. The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Daniel H. Cole and Elinor Ostrom

   In 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-...

5. Gold Rush Legacy

   American Minerals and the Knowledge Economy
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

   In 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...

6. Gold Rushes Are All the Same

   Labor Rules the Diggings
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Andrea G. McDowell

   In 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...

7. Property Creation by Regulation

   Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Daniel H. Cole

   In 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...

8. Who Owns Endangered Species?

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Jason F. Shogren and Gregory M. Parkhurst

   In this paper, Jason F. Shogren and Gregory M. Parkhurst raise the question, who owns endangered species? The simple answer is that we all do. However, the authors note, that answer does not help us...

9. The Evolution of Zoning Since the 1980s

   The Persistence of Localism
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   William A. Fischel

   This paper, by William A. Fischel, examines three broad themes in the evolution of zoning. The first theme is the persistence of localism in zoning despite numerous top down attempts to reform zoning...

10. A Political Analysis of Property Rights

    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2011
    William Blomquist

    In this paper, William Blomquist provides a positive political treatment of property rights. His approach supplements standard political-economic accounts of property rights that combine a simple...