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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteurs principaux: Block, Walter, 1941- (Auteur), Nelson, Peter L. (Peter Lothian), 1946- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Collection:Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.