Private and Common Property Rights

New Forms of Private Property: Property Rights in Environmental Goods

This entry examines the relationship between property rights and environmental protection. According to the ‘tragedy of the commons’ model, environmental pollution and resource depletion result from the inadequate specification of property rights in environmental goods. Two solutions typically are offered for averting the ‘tragedy’: (1) specify property rights (that is, privatize the commons) o...

The Structure of Rights in the Context of Private Property

z Some rights to resources adhere to individuals on the basis of ascribed characteristics-these are rights of person. These rights are not subject to voluntary alienation. And there are rights that adhere to specific characteristics of resources and are subject to alienation. These are rights in property. However, there has been a systematic tendency to promote property rights at the expense of...

Ungating Suburbia: Property Rights, Political Participation, and Common Interest Communities

Most Americans no longer live in traditional communities. Instead, they live in suburban subdivisions littered with shopping malls, swimming pools, recreation centers, and private security forces. But improved living conditions, extra services, communal spaces, and increased property values come at a cost: we are now more segregated than ever. And in our isolation, the public realm eviscerates,...

Property Rights and Natural Resource : Socio - Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implications of Common Property Resource Management

Re-Crafting Rights over Common Property Resources in Mexico

Agrarian Attorney General), and the World Bank for financial and/or logistical support with data collection. We are obliged to the representatives and members of agrarian communities for their participation in the surveys and case studies. have dominated thinking about the endogenous evolution of land rights from open access to individual property. According to these views, there are two fundam...