Takings, Regulations, and Natural Property Rights

Property Rights, Collective Action, and Technologies for Natural Resource Management

Deg ra da tion of natu ral re sources has be come a global prob lem that threat ens the live li hood of mil lions of poor peo ple. Many prom is ing tech nolo gies for natu ral re source man age ment are avail able to ad dress these prob lems, but farm ers and oth ers of ten fail to adopt them. Why is this? Al though many fac tors can be iden ti fied, lack of se cure prop erty rights and col lec...

Property rights, regulatory capture, and exploitation of natural resources∗

We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator’s choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in the traditional regulatory capture paradigm. When incumbent resource users have weak property rights,...

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

Writing and Publishing Textbooks and Students' Rights from the Perspective of Islam and Intellectual Property Rights

The right to education, as a basic human right, is essential for all members of society, and its realization requires special facilities and tools. Textbooks are considered to be the most important tool that should be provided to learners and students in an appropriate and standard and comprehensive manner, without discrimination and not for profit. The aim of this study was to determine the st...

A case of using property rights to manage natural resources

This article presents a case of using property rights to govern land use in the high country of New Zealand’s South Island. It tells the story of a land reform policy and its implementation over two decades, through changes in rules and governing parties. It observes land reform outcomes that are surprisingly favourable to pastoral leaseholders, and surprisingly unfavourable to the Crown. It th...