ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Private Conservation

Fencing the Oceans: A Rights-Based Approach to Privatizing Fisheries
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Birgir Runolfsson
Country: United States

There is a solution to the problem of overfishing. From Regulation: The Cato Journal of Business and Government.

Fishing for Markets: Regulation and Ocean Farming
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Michael Markels Jr.
Country: United States

Lack of property rights in the ocean is the main obstacle to large-scale aquaculture. From the Cato Institute's periodical, Regulation.

Enviro-Capitalists: Nature's Entrepreneurs
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Country: United States

Documents the success of today's environmental entrepreneurs. In PDF format. (12/98)

The case for private environmental stewardship
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: John Carlisle
Country: United States

The private sector frequently leads the way in protecting the environment -- despite, in some cases, actually getting fined for doing so or accused of waging a "greenwashing" PR campaign. NCPPR Policy Analysis #250. (4/99)

Private conservation and black rhinos in Zimbabwe
Source: Center for Private Conservation
Author: Michael De Alessi
Country: Zimbabwe

Private conservancies for black rhinos have proven the most effective means of protecting these once threatened species - more effective than failed government controls. (4/13/00)

Eco-industrial parks: The case for private planning
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Pierre Desrochers
Country: United States

Social planners are now pointing to a private industrial park in the Netherlands as a model for government-led eco-industrial planning. Is government planning now needed to increase efficiency in materials-use in competitive economies? Come on. Available in Adobe PDF format. (7/00)

Michael De Alessi on markets, politics, and voluntary actions
Source: The Center for Private Conservation
Author: Michael De Alessi
Country: United States

De Alessi makes the argument for environmental conservation through markets at the 1999 Hal Clough Lecture at Australia's Institute of Public Affairs. Available in Adobe PDF format. (02/01)

Private conservation: markets, politics and voluntary action
Source: IPA
Author: Michael De Alessi
Country: United States

"What Thomas Jefferson understood so well in the eighteenth century -- that private ownership is the surest way to protect something -- has faded in recent years. But it has hardly gone away. And in some form or another, a return to this approach is inexorable." (Adobe Acrobat) (1999)

Privatising parks: why the private sector can enhance nature protection
Source: CIS
Author: Jeff Bennett
Country: United States

Prof. Bennett suggests that a competitive private sector and ecological preservation are not the polar opposites they are often made out to be. (Adobe Acrobat) (05/01)

The Earth Charter and the United Nations
Source: Acton Institute/Religion & Liberty
Author: Thomas Sieger Derr
Country: United States

Advocates of a United Nations "Earth Charter" have cooked up a document that is anti-anthropocentric; ambivalent, at best, about economic growth and industrial civilization; skeptical of the value of science and technology; in favor of an international control regime that will limit state sovereignty and even, perhaps, individual rights. (04/01)

Saving endangered species privately
Source: PRI
Author: Michael De Alessi
Country: Australia

"This study explains the history of Earth Sanctuaries, particularly the successes and challenges it has faced in trying to save species through commercialization." (8/03)

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