Water capitalism : the case for privatizing oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers / Walter E. Block and Peter L. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Block, Walter, 1941- author.

Nelson, Peter L. (Peter Lothian), 1946- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics.

Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privatization.

Water rights.

Water-supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral.

Contents:

Privatize the oceans and all other bodies of water

Why privatize anything?

Why privatize bodies of water?

Aquatic ownership concepts

The process of privatization homesteading, abandonment

Existing law governing the seas

Oceans: concepts of oceanological ownership

Rivers: concepts of potamological ownership

Lakes: concepts of limnological ownership

Aquifers: concepts of hydrogeological ownership

Mainstream views on ocean management

Piracy

Case studies

Debate: technological viewpoints that inform homesteading, technological units.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3991-5

1-4985-1881-8

OCLC:

922925633