Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment [Hardcover]

Bruce Yandle (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0847686728 | ISBN-13: 978-0847686728 | Publication Date: September 1997

In this provocative new book, Bruce Yandle explores the relationship between common law and environmental protection, and he discusses how people can limit environmental impact while living in a world of common access. Yandle examines today's most pressing environmental and natural resource management problems, including water quality, the ozone layer, acid rain, and access to groundwater contained in aquifers. He argues that common sense should dictate the simplest, least costly ways to address the problem of access to limited natural resources. Yandle challenges readers to invent methods for creating wealth by building appropriate institutions and enforcing intelligent laws. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental economics, politics, and law.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Bruce Yandle has an uncanny ability to make sense out of hard problems. In this book, he makes sense out of what many people see as one of the hardest problems we face today: the environment. If you really want to understand the causes of environmental problems and the potential ways to solve them, the solution is simple --READ THIS BOOK; it only makes sense! (Benson, Bruce L. )

In this brilliant volume Professor Yandle demonstrates that common law-the distillation of centuries of tried and true principles for allocating and protecting our natural resources-frequently offers a common sense alternative to ponderous and wasteful command and control regulatory program. This volume brilliantly captures with most uncommon insight the unique role of common law in bringing common sense to the protection of our nation's precious environment. (Roger J. Marzulla )

Yandle's book identifies how we got to the current situation and suggests a workable and effective alternative to the current state. (Todd J. Zywicki Constitutional Political Economy )

Is there a way of approaching environmental problems that both recognizes the primacy of individual rights and the importance of limited government? Bruce Yandle . . . provides the best answer that I know of in his most recent book, Common Sense and Common Law for the Environment. . . . This is an excellent book grounded in the real world. It neither ignores environmental problems nor assumes that mandated, centralized solutions will work simply because we want them to. . . . It is hard to think of a better book for gaining useful insights into practical solutions to our environmental problems. (Hill, Peter The Freeman )

In the United States, statute and common law compete in addressing environmental problems. Bruce Yandle has distilled decades of distinguished teaching and research into a first-rate account, highly readable and rich with practical examples and case law, demonstrating the superiority of the common law within an economic system based on private property rights. (Louis De Alessi )

About the Author

Bruce Yandle is alumni professor and Southern National Bank Scholar at Clemson University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation, and co-editor of Taking the Environment Seriously (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995) and Land Rights: The 1990s Property Rights Rebellion (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847686728
• ISBN-13: 978-0847686728
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,729,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.