Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights is an increasingly popular environmental policy option. While advocates of this type of market-based' environmental policy tend to focus on its efficiency and ecological implications, such policies also raise important considerations of equity and distributive justice. This book confronts these ethical implications by showing not that equity ideas should influence such policies, but how in fact they already do so. Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) and the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act (TGA), Raymond documents and explains the role of...

Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights is an increasingly popular environmental policy option. While advocates of this type of market-based' environmental policy tend to focus on its efficiency and ecological implications, such policies also raise important considerations of equity and distributive justice. This book confronts these ethical implications by showing not that equity ideas should influence such policies, but how in fact they already do so. Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) and the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act (TGA), Raymond documents and explains the role of...