Who owns the environment? / edited by Peter J. Hill and Roger E. Meiners.

Papers presented at a forum held June 12-15, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Property rights and externalities : problems and solutions / Peter J. Hill and Roger E. Meiners -- Private property rights as the basis for free market environmentalism / Louis De Alessi -- Property rights, the environment, and economic well-being / Seth W. Norton -- Property rights as a natural order : reciprocity, evolutionary and experimental considerations / Vernon L. Smith -- The common law and the environment : the Canadian experience / Elizabeth Brubaker -- Coase, Pigou, and environmental rights / Bruce Yandle -- Existence value and other of life's ills / Donald J. Boudreaux and Roger E. Meiners -- From stakeholders to stockholders : a view from organizational theory / William J. Carney -- Habitat preservation : a property rights perspective / Richard A. Epstein -- Viewing wildlife through Coase-colored glasses / Terry L. Anderson -- Cooperating on the commons : case studies in community fisheries / Donald R. Leal -- The constitutional protection of private property / Richard E. Wagner.