Articles Written By: alr_rocks

Even though formal property rights are the theoretically optimal response to open access problems involving natural and environmental resources, they typically are adopted only after considerable waste has taken place.…

Two types of public infrastructure---roads and property rights---are often thought critical to economic development; this Article compares their impacts on the natural environment.

This Article applies an information-cost theory of property to water law. Because of its fluidity, exclusion is difficult in the case of water and gives way to rule of proper…

During 2002--2004 a voluntary, profit sharing harvesters’ co-operative was allowed to operate in the Chignik Salmon fishery in Alaska. Regulators split the fishery’s total allowable catch between the co-op and…

This Article argues that fisheries policymakers currently face a multifaceted challenge. Wild fish stocks are declining, aquaculture is growing, and there are many possible policy responses to these developments. Drawing…