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

Author
Block, Walter, 1941-
Published
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages).
Additional Creators
Nelson, Peter L. (Peter Lothian), 1946-
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Language Note
English.
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.
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.
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9781498518819 ebook
1498518818
9781498518802 cloth : alk. paper
9781498518819 electronic
149851880X (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-268a) and index.
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