Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Want to own your own forest?


Property rights can help save, preserve, and improve the environment by increasing their security.  Doing so would lead to:

*deforestation decreases
*access to safe water
*improvements in sanitation facilities
*increases in production, exchange, economic developement

When we better secure property rights, people have desires and motives to maintain and protect the environment.  It's like having a house.  You pay to live there and therefore keep it clean. 

If you owned a local forest, would you maintain it and encourage others to as well?



SOURCE: http://search.proquest.com/docview/875293493/139B57D5E8432DC6C0B/3?accountid=6222
Author: Carrie B. Kerekes

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