The evolution of resource property rights / Anthony Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Anthony, 1923-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--Law and legislation--History.

Natural resources.

Property--History.

Property.

Natural resources--History.

Property--Economic aspects.

Natural resources, Communal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century. Completely private resources and those in the public (or Crown) lands are given equal attention and a simple supply-and-demand model is used to explain how property rights are altered over time. Scott also provides the reader with a unique set of characteristics for defining rights and numerous case studies and examples of their evolution, highligh

Contents:

Contents; Part I. Rights over Natural Resources; 1. Concepts in Resource Property Rights; Introduction: identifying changes in resource property rights; The spectrum of official and unofficial suppliers; Summarizing and looking forward; Part II. Rights over Fugacious Resources; 2. Fugacious Resources and Common Property; Concepts of fluid or fugacious resources; Categories of ownership: public, private and common property; Understanding the absence or deficiency of rights over fluid and common property resources; Tort law and contract law; 3. Rights over Flowing Water

Introduction: changing regimes of water lawThe twists and turns of water law; Conclusion: change and stability in water rights; 4. Rights over Fisheries and Fish; Introduction: from the fishery commons toward property in fish; Medieval fishing rights; Medieval demand and supply fail to produce exclusivity; The nineteenth century and political intervention; From public right of fishing to individual licences; The 1980s and individual catch quotas; Part III. Rights over Mineral Resources; 5. Mineral Disposal and Mining Rights to 1850; Introduction: concepts and regimes in mining rights

Original ownership and the state control of mineral rights in Europe and the early Spanish coloniesMineral ownership and disposal in the later colonial era; 6. Free Mining from Medieval Europe to the Gold Rushes; Free mining from the Roman Empire to the Enlightenment; Free mining and the demand for information; Mining rights in California: 1850 and after; Theory of placer mining rights and free mining in the New World; Characteristics of camp law during the later part of the California gold rush; 7. After the Gold Rush: Alluvial and Hard Rock Mining on Public Land in the New World

Introduction: adapting placer mining rights to hard-rock miningTransition to deep diggings: deep alluvial mining and industrialization; A profile of requirements in the United States, Canada and Australia; Characteristics of property rights in the profile of mine disposal law; Concluding remarks on mining rights in public lands; 8. Mineral Disposal and Mining Rights on Private Land; Introduction: conflicts and the courts in the development of private mineral rights; Private mining, leasing and conflicts; Flooding cases and rights; Surface rights

The characteristics of a property right and the evolution of mining rights on private lands9. Rights over Coal, Oil and Gas; Introduction: the energy minerals; Coal in the industrial age; Petroleum: oil and gas disposal; Part IV. Rights over Woods-Based Resources; 10. Concepts in Forest Property Rights; Introduction; Timber rights and their characteristics; Multiple-use ownerships and the private-public relationship in forestry; 11. Forestry on Public Lands from the Medieval to the Modern Era; Tenure decisions on public lands: the royal forests

Naval licences and their survival in the New World

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-530) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-85228-7

0-19-152148-5

9786611852283

OCLC:

236791973