Water capitalism : the case for privatizing oceans, rivers, lakes, and aquifers /

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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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Block, Walter, 1941- (Author), Nelson, Peter L. (Peter Lothian), 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Series:Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Subjects:
Water-supply.
Water rights.
Privatization.
Water Supply
Privatization
Eau > Approvisionnement.
Droits sur les eaux.
Privatisation.
water rights.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Water rights
Water-supply
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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