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US$39.95 EV001 Who Owns the Environment? Edited by Peter Hill and Roger Meiners. A collection of essays exploring the theory that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker entitled "The Common Law and the Environment: The Canadian Experience." 353 pages, softcover (1998). Order from Amazon.com

$15.95 (Online version is free)
EV500 Property Rights in the Defence of Nature. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This book draws on cases from England, Canada, and the United States, showing how the common law of property has for centuries been a force for environmental protection, while contemporary statutes have allowed polluters to foul private lands and public resources alike. It argues that individuals and communities should be entrusted with the task of preserving the environment and that, with stronger property rights, they would regain the power to prevent much harmful activity. 328 pages, softcover (1995).

$3.50 (Online version is free) EV002 The Common Law Approach to Pollution Prevention. A transcript of a roundtable discussion, hosted by the Center for Private Conservation, between Hope Babcock, Elizabeth Brubaker, David Schoenbrod, and Bruce Yandle. Explores the promise and pitfalls of applying common law remedies to contemporary environmental concerns. 33 pages (March 1998).

$1.50 (Online version is free)
EV635
The Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good? By Elizabeth Brubaker. This speech argues that remote, centralized governments, driven by political considerations and insensitive to local circumstances, are not the best guardians of the public good. Environmental problems require a diversity of solutions devised by those most affected. Good information and strong property rights give people both tools and incentives to use their resources sustainably. 8 pages (November 1997).
$2.50 (Online version is free)
EV632
Property Rights and the Public Good. An interview, for CBC Radio's Ideas program, with Patricia Adams, Elizabeth Brubaker, and Lawrence Solomon. A discussion of the environmental, economic, and social harm wrought in the name of the public good, both in Canada and in the Third World, and of the counterbalancing protections offered by traditional property rights regimes. 13 pages (November 1996).
$1.50 (Online version is free)
EV003
The Role of Property Rights in Protecting Water Quality. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, reviews the ways in which Canadians have used common law property rights to protect water quality and chronicles governments' tendencies to replace common law with regulations that make it more difficult for individuals to protect waters. 8 pages (June/September 1996).

$5/wk EV800 Property Rights & Environmental Issues. Interview with Elizabeth Brubaker on the Discovery channel, followed by a panel discussion, approximately 20 minutes. Video (Spring 1995) $20 refundable deposit.
$5/wk EV801 Nature's Case for Restoring Strong Property Rights. Speech by Elizabeth Brubaker on the Canadian Parliamentary Channel as presented to the Student Seminar on Public Policy Issues, approximately 45 minutes. Video (December 1994) $20 refundable deposit.

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV627 Nature's Case for Restoring Strong Property Rights. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This speech describes the ways in which individuals and businesses use property rights to protect the environment and how, when governments take away property rights, the environment suffers. 9 pages (November 1994).

$1.00 (Online version is free) EV525 Protecting the Environment with Property Rights: The K.V.P. Story. By Rachel Szymanski. A dramatic illustration of property owners' common law rights to clean water and governments' tendency to override these rights in order to protect industry. 3 pages (July 1992).

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV626 Markets and the Environment. An interview, for CBC Radio's Ideas program, with Lawrence Solomon about the ways in which competition, privatization, property rights, and other market mechanisms can work to preserve the environment. 11 pages (June 1992).

$19.95 Paper

$45.00 Cloth
EV564 Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Public Management. This book traces the evolution of laws permitting farms to grow larger and to create nuisances -- especially odours -- that harm their neighbours. It argues for a return to a more decentralized, rights-based regulatory regime in which individuals and communities are empowered to protect themselves from polluting farms. 153 pages (May 2007).

$1.50 (Online version is free) EV565 Right-to-Farm Legislation in Canada. By Patrick McCormally. This paper outlines the provincial laws that exempt farmers from liability for the nuisances they create. It describes the new standard of "normalcy" by which agricultural practices are often measured and examines the farm practice review boards that have been established to determine whether disputed practices are normal, and thus acceptable. 8 pages (July 2007).

$2.50 (Online version is free) EV557 Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Walkerton Inquiry recommends that farmers bear the full costs of preventing pollution from their operations. 13 pages (September 2001).

$14.00 (Online version is free) EV548
The Promise of Privatization (HTML format). (PDF format) By Elizabeth Brubaker. This study, prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry, examines the privatization of water and wastewater utilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It reveals that privatization has brought investment, expertise, innovation, efficiency, and accountability to water and wastewater utilities, improving their performance and their compliance with health and environmental standards. 70 pages (April 2001).

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV556
The Privatization of Water Utilities in Ontario (HTML format). (PDF format) By Elizabeth Brubaker. This supplementary report reveals a decade of provincial interest in privatization. It reviews the anticipated benefits of privatization and the barriers to it. 9 pages (August 2001).

$7.00 (Online version is free) EV549 Guiding and Controlling Ontario's Future Water and Wastewater Services (HTML format). (PDF format) By Thomas Adams. This study, prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry, promotes user pay and full cost pricing, independent economic regulation, and strengthened environmental law enforcement. 34 pages (April 2001).

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV559 The Ontario Clean Water Agency (HTML format). (PDF format) By Doug Paisley and Elizabeth Brubaker. This submission concludes that OCWA is an unaccountable and ineffective agency that works in opposition to the public interest and discourages private sector involvement in the water sector. 11 pages (September 2001).

$7.00 (Online version is free) EV552 Energy Probe Research Foundation's Written Submissions Regarding Part I of the Walkerton Inquiry. This argument traces the Walkerton tragedy to the provincial government's failed approach to regulation and enforcement and to its failure to implement its policies regarding the privatization and financing of water utilities. 36 pages (August 2001).

$1.00 (Online version is free) EV553 Incentives Matter. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Guiding Principles focuses on the need to eliminate conflicts of interest and to internalize costs. 5 pages (July 2001).

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV554 The Role of Government. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on the Provincial Government's Functions recommends that the government should limit itself to strictly regulating water and wastewater systems. 10 pages (July 2001).

$1.00 (Online version is free) EV555 Source Protection. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Source Protection recommends that the provincial government should grant no one the right to contaminate a source of water. 4 pages (August 2001).

$2.50 (Online version is free) EV557 Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Specific Sources of Contaminants recommends that farmers bear the full costs of preventing pollution from their operations. 13 pages (September 2001).

$3.00 (Online version is free) EV558 The Implications of Private Ownership and Operation. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on the Management of Water Providers recommends privatization in order to attract private capital and expertise, encourage efficiency, and enhance accountability. 14 pages (September 2001).

$24.95
EV560 Liquid Assets: Privatizing and Regulating Canada's Water Utilities. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Public Management. This book argues that public provision of water and wastewater services has not served Canadians well. Based on successes in other jurisdictions, it calls for the privatization of utilities and examines the conditions-such as competition, effective regulation, legal liability, and union support-necessary to make privatization work. 235 pages, softcover (November 2002).

$4.50 (Online version is free) EV563 Water and Wastewater Treatment in Canada:Tapping into Private-Sector Capital, Expertise, and Efficiencies. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This chapter from A Breath of Fresh Air: Market Solutions for Improving Canada's Environment reviews the challenges faced by Canada's water and wastewater utilities and proposes private investment, private operations, and better accountability mechanisms, including enforceable contracts and more effective regulation of utility performance. It also recommends a federal role in facilitating private-sector involvement. 22 pages (January 2007).

$7.50 (Online version is free) EV562 Creating Viable Water Systems: Emerging Best Practices in Governance. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Prepared for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. This report examines reforms to the governance of municipal water systems in Ontario, considers factors determining their success or failure, identifies emerging solutions to lingering problems, and draws lessons that may help solve some of the problems plaguing aboriginal water systems. 36 pages (March 2006).

$7.50 (Online version is free) EV561 Revisiting Water and Wastewater Utility Privatization. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Prepared for the Government of Ontario Panel on the Role of Government. This paper reviews recent setbacks for privatization and explores the reasons behind Canadian municipalities' reluctance to contract out operations of their water and wastewater utilities. 36 pages (October 2003).

$3.50 (Online version is free) EV546 A Wastewater Treatment Privatization Case Study: Indianapolis, Indiana. By Craig Golding. An examination of the elements contributing to one privatization's economic, environmental, and labour-relations successes. 18 pages (March 2000).

$11.50 (Online version is free) EV542 The Privatization of Water and Wastewater Utilities: An International Survey. By Alexander Orwin. This survey of the reasons behind the world-wide trend towards privatization and the results of a number of privatizations offers lessons in how - and how not - to privatize. 58 pages (August 1999).

Free EV547 Privatizing Water Works. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This opinion piece, from The National Post, debunks six myths about the privatization of water and wastewater services in England and Wales. (March 2000).
Free EV544 Private Operator Best for Halifax System. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This op-ed piece, from The Halifax Chronicle-Herald, lauds Halifax for contracting out the construction and operation of four new sewage treatment plants. (August 1999).

Free EV005 Toronto Water Fight and What Margaret Thatcher Never Said About Water. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This op-ed piece and letter-to-the-editor, from the Financial Post, argue that involving the private sector in water supply and sewage treatment could bring economic and environmental benefits. 2 pages (February 1999).

$3.00 (Online version is free) EV541 Privatizing Water Supply and Sewage Treatment: How Far Should We Go? By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, compares four approaches to the privatization and regulation of water and sewage utilities and explores the environmental implications of each approach. 14 pages (December 1998).

$2.00 (Online version is free) EV633 Bring Back Our Beaches. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from The Next City, reviews the inadequate sewage treatment processes and the regulatory failures that have led to the closing of beaches across Canada. It documents the environmental benefits arising from the privatization of sewage treatment in England and Wales and examines the institutional changes responsible. It concludes that privatization, if done right, could clean up our beaches. 9 pages (Summer 1997).

$6.00 (Online version is free) EV536 Troubled Waters: Municipal Wastewater Pollution on the Atlantic Coast. By Martin Nantel. An examination of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of the daily discharge of 1.1 million cubic metres of treated and untreated sewage into Atlantic waters. The author proposes privatizing municipal wastewater utilities as a means to break the conflicts of interest now preventing governments from ending environmental degradation. 29 pages (August 1996).

$7.00 (Online version is free) EV535 Municipal Wastewater Pollution in British Columbia. By Martin Nantel. This report examines the environmental damage caused by the discharge of treated and untreated sewage into B.C. waters, paying special attention to the threats posed to the Fraser River salmon. It also addresses governments' failure to enforce the legislation intended to regulate sewage treatment plants and recommends a number of measures to alleviate sewage pollution in the province. 34 pages (May 1996).

$7.50 (Online version is free) EV532 Sewage Treatment and Disposal in Qu�bec: Environmental Effects. By Martin Nantel. The author reviews the rules and agreements regulating municipal sewage treatment in Qu�bec and demonstrates how unaccountable governments plagued by conflicts of interest fail to enforce their own laws. The report ends with a series of recommendations that would alleviate sewage pollution in the province. 37 pages (December 1995).

$5.50 (Online version is free) EV527 Ontario's Sewage Treatment Plants and their Effect on the Environment. By Jamie Kapitain. This report looks at the different types of sewage treatment in Ontario, the rules and guidelines purported to regulate treatment plants, the pollution caused by the noncompliant plants, and the environmental, health and social effects of that pollution. It also recommends a number of changes that should be made to stop sewage pollution. 28 pages (September 1995).

$3.50 (Online version is free) EV531 A Review of Literature on Economic Instruments Affecting Water and Wastewater Flows & A Review of Documents Used in Toronto's Main Treatment Plant Environmental Assessment. By Marc Rouleau. In response to Toronto's proposal to expand its sewage treatment capacity, this paper examines the effects of marginal cost pricing, efficient rate structures, full metering, and privatization on wastewater flows and on the need for system expansion. 17 pages (July 1994).

$1.00 (Online version is free) EV526 Environment Probe's Response to the R.V. Anderson Water Conservation Study. By Rachel Szymanski. A critique of a proposed water conservation strategy for Metro Toronto. 5 pages (August 1992).

$0.50 EV572 Water Conservation through Water Pricing. Outlines how metering and pricing which reflects supply and demand are the most equitable and effective ways to reduce water use. 3 pages (December 1992).

$4.50 (Online version is free) EV540 The Sale of Canadian Water to the United States. By Aruni de Silva. A review of Proposals, Agreements and Policies Regarding Large Scale Interbasin Exports. 22 pages (October 1997).

US$19.95 EV550 Political Environmentalism: Going behind the Green Curtain. Edited by Terry Anderson. A collection of essays documenting the ways in which politics and environmentalism mix to produce perverse results. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker on how politics destroyed Canada's Atlantic groundfisheries. 336 pages, softcover (2000). Order from Amazon.com
$19.95 EV503 Fish or Cut Bait! The Case for Individual Transferable Quotas in the Salmon Fishery of British Columbia. Edited by Laura Jones and Michael Walker. A collection of essays discussing tradeable fishing rights and their role in solving the West Coast salmon crisis. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker (see below) suggesting that quotas are only the first step in the evolution of stronger property rights to protect and conserve fisheries. 178 pages, softcover (1997). Order from Amazon.com

$24.95
EV502 Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast. Edited by Brian Lee Crowley. A collection of essays explaining the theory behind rights-based fishing and reviewing practical experience with tradeable quota systems and community ownership in various jurisdictions. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker (see below) on the ecological benefits of establishing property rights in fisheries. 323 pages, softcover (1996).
$5.00 (Online version is free) EV551 Unnatural Disaster: How Politics Destroyed Canada's Atlantic Groundfisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This chapter from Political Environmentalism documents the ways in which politicians, pursuing their short-term interest in putting voters to work, subsidized the expansion of the fisheries and set catch levels exceeding those recommended by their own scientists. 48 pages (2000).
$2.00 (Online version is free) EV004 Cod Don't Vote. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from The Next City magazine, examines the collapse of the East Coast cod stocks, charging federal politicians and bureaucrats with knowingly destroying the fisheries for political gain. 10 pages (January 1999).
$2.50 (Online version is free) EV634 Property Rights: Creating Incentives and Tools for Sustainable Fisheries Management. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Keynote Address, Tri-State Rock Lobster Industry Conference, Adelaide, Australia. This speech argues that governments should put control over fisheries into the hands of fishers. It examines the political pressures and bureaucratic structures that deprive government managers of the incentives and tools necessary to make sustainable decisions. It argues for systems of self-managed ownership that remove decisions about catches and habitat from the political arena. 12 pages (September 1997).
Free EV636 How to Save Fish . . . and Fishers and Fishing for Dollars. By Elizabeth Brubaker. These op-ed pieces, from The Ottawa Citizen and The Vancouver Province respectively, argue for stronger property rights in fish and fish habitat and describe recent experiments with individual transferable quotas in Iceland and New Zealand. 2 pages (July/August 1997).
$4.00 (Online version is free) EV538 The Allocation of Commercial Fishing Rights within the Great Lakes. By Evadne Liuson. This paper reviews the agencies and instruments regulating recreational, Aboriginal, and commercial fishing on the Canadian Great Lakes, with a focus on the Individual Transferable Quotas governing Ontario's commercial fisheries. 21 pages (June 1997).
$11.00 (Online version is free) EV537 Vandalism Masquerading as Progress: A History of Lake Ontario's Fisheries. By Martin Nantel. Part One of this paper reviews the ecological transformation that occurred in Lake Ontario after 1750 and the factors - including overfishing, habitat destruction, and the introduction of exotic species - that contributed to it. Part Two examines the institutions - including the open access regime and "progressive" fisheries management - responsible for the transformation. The paper concludes by arguing for new, locally appropriate institutional arrangements that will set Lake Ontario and its fisheries on an ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable course. 55 pages (May 1997).
$3.00 (Online version is free) EV533 Beyond Quotas: Private Property Solutions to Overfishing. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This excerpt from Fish or Cut Bait! (see above) documents a century of mismanagement of the Pacific salmon fishery and analyses governments' incentives to encourage the overfishing and pollution that threaten stocks. It examines alternative regimes that give fisheries owners both the reasons and the authority to conserve stocks and to protect the habitat on which they depend. 28 pages (May 1996).
$3.50 (Online version is free) EV534 The Ecological Implications of Establishing Property Rights in Atlantic Fisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Excerpt from Taking Ownership (see above). This chapter examines the ways in which property rights provide individual and community fisheries owners with both the legal tools to fight pollution and the economic incentives to reduce fishing pressures, implement conservation measures, and enhance stocks and their habitats. 30 pages (April 1996).
$2.50 (Online version is free) EV629 Making the Oceans Safe for Fish: How Property Rights Can Reverse the Destruction of the Atlantic Fisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This excerpt from Property Rights in the Defence of Nature (see above), reprinted by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, describes the ways in which fisheries owners have used their property rights to protect fish and habitats. 12 pages (September 1995).

$4.00 EV523 Clearcut Policy and Utilization Standards in British Columbia. By Adam White. BC logging regulations, called utilization standards, force forest companies to remove all timber above a certain size from the forest. Utilization standards strip forestry companies of profits, while stripping the harvested site of the nutrients, seeds, and erosion protection offered by downed trees and wood waste. 18 pages (November 1991).
$15.00 EV522 The Unrecognized Recreation Value of Wilderness: Defining the Future Recreation Needs of Ontarians. By Adam White. This study assesses the non-timber value of wilderness areas by examining provincial park visitation patterns, identifies barriers to park visitation, and makes park planning recommendations. 81 pages (July 1991).
$8.00 EV520 The Price of Preservation: The Value of Timber in the Carmanah Valley Watershed. By Adam White. A social cost-benefit analysis of logging in British Columbia's Carmanah Valley. Also provides a geographic and historical perspective of the area, and a critique of forest management policy in BC. 39 pages (September 1990).
$2.00 EV530 Enlisting Trees in Canada to Fight the Greenhouse Effect. By Wendy Hawthorne. Advocates policies and strategies for increasing forest growth on forest land, rural land, and in cities and other built-up areas. 11 pages (1989).
Free EV600 Save the Forests - Sell the Trees. By Lawrence Solomon. This op-ed piece, from The Wall Street Journal, argues that private owners are more likely than governments to preserve their forests. (August 1989).

$27.50
EV501 Systems of Survival. By Jane Jacobs. An analysis of the distinct ethical structures that sustain social and economic life and the proper relationships between government and business. 236 pages, hardcover (1992).
sold out EP005 The Conserver Solution. By Lawrence Solomon. The first popularly written argument for our conversion to a society in which environmental protection and economic growth go hand in hand. 220 pages, softcover (1978).
$1.50 (Online version is free) EV539 Endangered Species Protection in Canada: An Overview. By Robert Rishikof. An overview of existing and proposed laws – provincial and federal – that can be used to protect endangered species and their habitat. 7 pages (June 1997).
Free EV545 How Not to Save Species and Conservation That Works. By Elizabeth Brubaker. These op-ed pieces, from The National Post, argue for endangered species legislation that encourages voluntary arrangements giving landowners incentives to preserve species and their habitat and compensating them for losses incurred in doing so. (September 1999).
$7.00 EV524 Resource Use in Canada's Provincial and National Parks. By Tony Iacobelli. A survey of the timber harvesting, mineral extraction, oil and gas production, and other commercial activity occurring in Canada's parks. 29 pages (May 1992).
Free EV624 Free trade to axe profits from the forest firms? By Lawrence Solomon. The Globe and Mail, May 16, 1989.
Free EV625 Free trade and the environment. By Lawrence Solomon. Brandon Sun, November 18, 1988.
Free EV623 We can't shift the blame: Effects of the free trade deal with the United States on our standards are neither all good nor all bad. By Lawrence Solomon. London Free Press, January 8, 1990.
Free EV620 The Best Earth Day Present: Freedom. By Lawrence Solomon. The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 1990.

Free EP-495 Energy Probe Research Foundation (EPRF) Annual Report. Includes background information about Environment Probe, a division of EPRF.

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US$39.95	EV001	Who Owns the Environment? Edited by Peter Hill and Roger Meiners. A collection of essays exploring the theory that environmental concerns are essentially property rights issues. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker entitled "The Common Law and the Environment: The Canadian Experience." 353 pages, softcover (1998). Order from Amazon.com
$15.95 (Online version is free)	EV500	Property Rights in the Defence of Nature. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This book draws on cases from England, Canada, and the United States, showing how the common law of property has for centuries been a force for environmental protection, while contemporary statutes have allowed polluters to foul private lands and public resources alike. It argues that individuals and communities should be entrusted with the task of preserving the environment and that, with stronger property rights, they would regain the power to prevent much harmful activity. 328 pages, softcover (1995).
$3.50 (Online version is free)	EV002	The Common Law Approach to Pollution Prevention. A transcript of a roundtable discussion, hosted by the Center for Private Conservation, between Hope Babcock, Elizabeth Brubaker, David Schoenbrod, and Bruce Yandle. Explores the promise and pitfalls of applying common law remedies to contemporary environmental concerns. 33 pages (March 1998).
$1.50 (Online version is free)	EV635	The Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good? By Elizabeth Brubaker. This speech argues that remote, centralized governments, driven by political considerations and insensitive to local circumstances, are not the best guardians of the public good. Environmental problems require a diversity of solutions devised by those most affected. Good information and strong property rights give people both tools and incentives to use their resources sustainably. 8 pages (November 1997).
$2.50 (Online version is free)	EV632	Property Rights and the Public Good. An interview, for CBC Radio's Ideas program, with Patricia Adams, Elizabeth Brubaker, and Lawrence Solomon. A discussion of the environmental, economic, and social harm wrought in the name of the public good, both in Canada and in the Third World, and of the counterbalancing protections offered by traditional property rights regimes. 13 pages (November 1996).
$1.50 (Online version is free)	EV003	The Role of Property Rights in Protecting Water Quality. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, reviews the ways in which Canadians have used common law property rights to protect water quality and chronicles governments' tendencies to replace common law with regulations that make it more difficult for individuals to protect waters. 8 pages (June/September 1996).
$5/wk	EV800	Property Rights & Environmental Issues. Interview with Elizabeth Brubaker on the Discovery channel, followed by a panel discussion, approximately 20 minutes. Video (Spring 1995) $20 refundable deposit.
$5/wk	EV801	Nature's Case for Restoring Strong Property Rights. Speech by Elizabeth Brubaker on the Canadian Parliamentary Channel as presented to the Student Seminar on Public Policy Issues, approximately 45 minutes. Video (December 1994) $20 refundable deposit.
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV627	Nature's Case for Restoring Strong Property Rights. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This speech describes the ways in which individuals and businesses use property rights to protect the environment and how, when governments take away property rights, the environment suffers. 9 pages (November 1994).
$1.00 (Online version is free)	EV525	Protecting the Environment with Property Rights: The K.V.P. Story. By Rachel Szymanski. A dramatic illustration of property owners' common law rights to clean water and governments' tendency to override these rights in order to protect industry. 3 pages (July 1992).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV626	Markets and the Environment. An interview, for CBC Radio's Ideas program, with Lawrence Solomon about the ways in which competition, privatization, property rights, and other market mechanisms can work to preserve the environment. 11 pages (June 1992).

$19.95 Paper $45.00 Cloth	EV564	Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Public Management. This book traces the evolution of laws permitting farms to grow larger and to create nuisances -- especially odours -- that harm their neighbours. It argues for a return to a more decentralized, rights-based regulatory regime in which individuals and communities are empowered to protect themselves from polluting farms. 153 pages (May 2007).
$1.50 (Online version is free)	EV565	Right-to-Farm Legislation in Canada. By Patrick McCormally. This paper outlines the provincial laws that exempt farmers from liability for the nuisances they create. It describes the new standard of "normalcy" by which agricultural practices are often measured and examines the farm practice review boards that have been established to determine whether disputed practices are normal, and thus acceptable. 8 pages (July 2007).
$2.50 (Online version is free)	EV557	Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Walkerton Inquiry recommends that farmers bear the full costs of preventing pollution from their operations. 13 pages (September 2001).

$14.00 (Online version is free)	EV548	The Promise of Privatization (HTML format). (PDF format) By Elizabeth Brubaker. This study, prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry, examines the privatization of water and wastewater utilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. It reveals that privatization has brought investment, expertise, innovation, efficiency, and accountability to water and wastewater utilities, improving their performance and their compliance with health and environmental standards. 70 pages (April 2001).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV556	The Privatization of Water Utilities in Ontario (HTML format). (PDF format) By Elizabeth Brubaker. This supplementary report reveals a decade of provincial interest in privatization. It reviews the anticipated benefits of privatization and the barriers to it. 9 pages (August 2001).
$7.00 (Online version is free)	EV549	Guiding and Controlling Ontario's Future Water and Wastewater Services (HTML format). (PDF format) By Thomas Adams. This study, prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry, promotes user pay and full cost pricing, independent economic regulation, and strengthened environmental law enforcement. 34 pages (April 2001).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV559	The Ontario Clean Water Agency (HTML format). (PDF format) By Doug Paisley and Elizabeth Brubaker. This submission concludes that OCWA is an unaccountable and ineffective agency that works in opposition to the public interest and discourages private sector involvement in the water sector. 11 pages (September 2001).
$7.00 (Online version is free)	EV552	Energy Probe Research Foundation's Written Submissions Regarding Part I of the Walkerton Inquiry. This argument traces the Walkerton tragedy to the provincial government's failed approach to regulation and enforcement and to its failure to implement its policies regarding the privatization and financing of water utilities. 36 pages (August 2001).
$1.00 (Online version is free)	EV553	Incentives Matter. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Guiding Principles focuses on the need to eliminate conflicts of interest and to internalize costs. 5 pages (July 2001).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV554	The Role of Government. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on the Provincial Government's Functions recommends that the government should limit itself to strictly regulating water and wastewater systems. 10 pages (July 2001).
$1.00 (Online version is free)	EV555	Source Protection. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Source Protection recommends that the provincial government should grant no one the right to contaminate a source of water. 4 pages (August 2001).
$2.50 (Online version is free)	EV557	Agricultural Pollution. By Elizabeth Brubaker. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on Specific Sources of Contaminants recommends that farmers bear the full costs of preventing pollution from their operations. 13 pages (September 2001).
$3.00 (Online version is free)	EV558	The Implications of Private Ownership and Operation. By Elizabeth Brubaker and Thomas Adams. EPRF's presentation to the Public Hearing on the Management of Water Providers recommends privatization in order to attract private capital and expertise, encourage efficiency, and enhance accountability. 14 pages (September 2001).

$24.95	EV560	Liquid Assets: Privatizing and Regulating Canada's Water Utilities. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Published by the University of Toronto's Centre for Public Management. This book argues that public provision of water and wastewater services has not served Canadians well. Based on successes in other jurisdictions, it calls for the privatization of utilities and examines the conditions-such as competition, effective regulation, legal liability, and union support-necessary to make privatization work. 235 pages, softcover (November 2002).

$4.50 (Online version is free)	EV563	Water and Wastewater Treatment in Canada:Tapping into Private-Sector Capital, Expertise, and Efficiencies. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This chapter from A Breath of Fresh Air: Market Solutions for Improving Canada's Environment reviews the challenges faced by Canada's water and wastewater utilities and proposes private investment, private operations, and better accountability mechanisms, including enforceable contracts and more effective regulation of utility performance. It also recommends a federal role in facilitating private-sector involvement. 22 pages (January 2007).
$7.50 (Online version is free)	EV562	Creating Viable Water Systems: Emerging Best Practices in Governance. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Prepared for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. This report examines reforms to the governance of municipal water systems in Ontario, considers factors determining their success or failure, identifies emerging solutions to lingering problems, and draws lessons that may help solve some of the problems plaguing aboriginal water systems. 36 pages (March 2006).
$7.50 (Online version is free)	EV561	Revisiting Water and Wastewater Utility Privatization. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Prepared for the Government of Ontario Panel on the Role of Government. This paper reviews recent setbacks for privatization and explores the reasons behind Canadian municipalities' reluctance to contract out operations of their water and wastewater utilities. 36 pages (October 2003).
$3.50 (Online version is free)	EV546	A Wastewater Treatment Privatization Case Study: Indianapolis, Indiana. By Craig Golding. An examination of the elements contributing to one privatization's economic, environmental, and labour-relations successes. 18 pages (March 2000).
$11.50 (Online version is free)	EV542	The Privatization of Water and Wastewater Utilities: An International Survey. By Alexander Orwin. This survey of the reasons behind the world-wide trend towards privatization and the results of a number of privatizations offers lessons in how - and how not - to privatize. 58 pages (August 1999).
Free	EV547	Privatizing Water Works. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This opinion piece, from The National Post, debunks six myths about the privatization of water and wastewater services in England and Wales. (March 2000).
Free	EV544	Private Operator Best for Halifax System. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This op-ed piece, from The Halifax Chronicle-Herald, lauds Halifax for contracting out the construction and operation of four new sewage treatment plants. (August 1999).
Free	EV005	Toronto Water Fight and What Margaret Thatcher Never Said About Water. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This op-ed piece and letter-to-the-editor, from the Financial Post, argue that involving the private sector in water supply and sewage treatment could bring economic and environmental benefits. 2 pages (February 1999).
$3.00 (Online version is free)	EV541	Privatizing Water Supply and Sewage Treatment: How Far Should We Go? By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, compares four approaches to the privatization and regulation of water and sewage utilities and explores the environmental implications of each approach. 14 pages (December 1998).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV633	Bring Back Our Beaches. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from The Next City, reviews the inadequate sewage treatment processes and the regulatory failures that have led to the closing of beaches across Canada. It documents the environmental benefits arising from the privatization of sewage treatment in England and Wales and examines the institutional changes responsible. It concludes that privatization, if done right, could clean up our beaches. 9 pages (Summer 1997).
$6.00 (Online version is free)	EV536	Troubled Waters: Municipal Wastewater Pollution on the Atlantic Coast. By Martin Nantel. An examination of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of the daily discharge of 1.1 million cubic metres of treated and untreated sewage into Atlantic waters. The author proposes privatizing municipal wastewater utilities as a means to break the conflicts of interest now preventing governments from ending environmental degradation. 29 pages (August 1996).
$7.00 (Online version is free)	EV535	Municipal Wastewater Pollution in British Columbia. By Martin Nantel. This report examines the environmental damage caused by the discharge of treated and untreated sewage into B.C. waters, paying special attention to the threats posed to the Fraser River salmon. It also addresses governments' failure to enforce the legislation intended to regulate sewage treatment plants and recommends a number of measures to alleviate sewage pollution in the province. 34 pages (May 1996).
$7.50 (Online version is free)	EV532	Sewage Treatment and Disposal in Qu�bec: Environmental Effects. By Martin Nantel. The author reviews the rules and agreements regulating municipal sewage treatment in Qu�bec and demonstrates how unaccountable governments plagued by conflicts of interest fail to enforce their own laws. The report ends with a series of recommendations that would alleviate sewage pollution in the province. 37 pages (December 1995).
$5.50 (Online version is free)	EV527	Ontario's Sewage Treatment Plants and their Effect on the Environment. By Jamie Kapitain. This report looks at the different types of sewage treatment in Ontario, the rules and guidelines purported to regulate treatment plants, the pollution caused by the noncompliant plants, and the environmental, health and social effects of that pollution. It also recommends a number of changes that should be made to stop sewage pollution. 28 pages (September 1995).
$3.50 (Online version is free)	EV531	A Review of Literature on Economic Instruments Affecting Water and Wastewater Flows & A Review of Documents Used in Toronto's Main Treatment Plant Environmental Assessment. By Marc Rouleau. In response to Toronto's proposal to expand its sewage treatment capacity, this paper examines the effects of marginal cost pricing, efficient rate structures, full metering, and privatization on wastewater flows and on the need for system expansion. 17 pages (July 1994).
$1.00 (Online version is free)	EV526	Environment Probe's Response to the R.V. Anderson Water Conservation Study. By Rachel Szymanski. A critique of a proposed water conservation strategy for Metro Toronto. 5 pages (August 1992).
$0.50	EV572	Water Conservation through Water Pricing. Outlines how metering and pricing which reflects supply and demand are the most equitable and effective ways to reduce water use. 3 pages (December 1992).
$4.50 (Online version is free)	EV540	The Sale of Canadian Water to the United States. By Aruni de Silva. A review of Proposals, Agreements and Policies Regarding Large Scale Interbasin Exports. 22 pages (October 1997).

US$19.95	EV550	Political Environmentalism: Going behind the Green Curtain. Edited by Terry Anderson. A collection of essays documenting the ways in which politics and environmentalism mix to produce perverse results. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker on how politics destroyed Canada's Atlantic groundfisheries. 336 pages, softcover (2000). Order from Amazon.com
$19.95	EV503	Fish or Cut Bait! The Case for Individual Transferable Quotas in the Salmon Fishery of British Columbia. Edited by Laura Jones and Michael Walker. A collection of essays discussing tradeable fishing rights and their role in solving the West Coast salmon crisis. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker (see below) suggesting that quotas are only the first step in the evolution of stronger property rights to protect and conserve fisheries. 178 pages, softcover (1997). Order from Amazon.com
$24.95	EV502	Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast. Edited by Brian Lee Crowley. A collection of essays explaining the theory behind rights-based fishing and reviewing practical experience with tradeable quota systems and community ownership in various jurisdictions. Includes a chapter by Elizabeth Brubaker (see below) on the ecological benefits of establishing property rights in fisheries. 323 pages, softcover (1996).
$5.00 (Online version is free)	EV551	Unnatural Disaster: How Politics Destroyed Canada's Atlantic Groundfisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This chapter from Political Environmentalism documents the ways in which politicians, pursuing their short-term interest in putting voters to work, subsidized the expansion of the fisheries and set catch levels exceeding those recommended by their own scientists. 48 pages (2000).
$2.00 (Online version is free)	EV004	Cod Don't Vote. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This article, from The Next City magazine, examines the collapse of the East Coast cod stocks, charging federal politicians and bureaucrats with knowingly destroying the fisheries for political gain. 10 pages (January 1999).
$2.50 (Online version is free)	EV634	Property Rights: Creating Incentives and Tools for Sustainable Fisheries Management. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Keynote Address, Tri-State Rock Lobster Industry Conference, Adelaide, Australia. This speech argues that governments should put control over fisheries into the hands of fishers. It examines the political pressures and bureaucratic structures that deprive government managers of the incentives and tools necessary to make sustainable decisions. It argues for systems of self-managed ownership that remove decisions about catches and habitat from the political arena. 12 pages (September 1997).
Free	EV636	How to Save Fish . . . and Fishers and Fishing for Dollars. By Elizabeth Brubaker. These op-ed pieces, from The Ottawa Citizen and The Vancouver Province respectively, argue for stronger property rights in fish and fish habitat and describe recent experiments with individual transferable quotas in Iceland and New Zealand. 2 pages (July/August 1997).
$4.00 (Online version is free)	EV538	The Allocation of Commercial Fishing Rights within the Great Lakes. By Evadne Liuson. This paper reviews the agencies and instruments regulating recreational, Aboriginal, and commercial fishing on the Canadian Great Lakes, with a focus on the Individual Transferable Quotas governing Ontario's commercial fisheries. 21 pages (June 1997).
$11.00 (Online version is free)	EV537	Vandalism Masquerading as Progress: A History of Lake Ontario's Fisheries. By Martin Nantel. Part One of this paper reviews the ecological transformation that occurred in Lake Ontario after 1750 and the factors - including overfishing, habitat destruction, and the introduction of exotic species - that contributed to it. Part Two examines the institutions - including the open access regime and "progressive" fisheries management - responsible for the transformation. The paper concludes by arguing for new, locally appropriate institutional arrangements that will set Lake Ontario and its fisheries on an ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable course. 55 pages (May 1997).
$3.00 (Online version is free)	EV533	Beyond Quotas: Private Property Solutions to Overfishing. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This excerpt from Fish or Cut Bait! (see above) documents a century of mismanagement of the Pacific salmon fishery and analyses governments' incentives to encourage the overfishing and pollution that threaten stocks. It examines alternative regimes that give fisheries owners both the reasons and the authority to conserve stocks and to protect the habitat on which they depend. 28 pages (May 1996).
$3.50 (Online version is free)	EV534	The Ecological Implications of Establishing Property Rights in Atlantic Fisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. Excerpt from Taking Ownership (see above). This chapter examines the ways in which property rights provide individual and community fisheries owners with both the legal tools to fight pollution and the economic incentives to reduce fishing pressures, implement conservation measures, and enhance stocks and their habitats. 30 pages (April 1996).
$2.50 (Online version is free)	EV629	Making the Oceans Safe for Fish: How Property Rights Can Reverse the Destruction of the Atlantic Fisheries. By Elizabeth Brubaker. This excerpt from Property Rights in the Defence of Nature (see above), reprinted by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, describes the ways in which fisheries owners have used their property rights to protect fish and habitats. 12 pages (September 1995).

$4.00	EV523	Clearcut Policy and Utilization Standards in British Columbia. By Adam White. BC logging regulations, called utilization standards, force forest companies to remove all timber above a certain size from the forest. Utilization standards strip forestry companies of profits, while stripping the harvested site of the nutrients, seeds, and erosion protection offered by downed trees and wood waste. 18 pages (November 1991).
$15.00	EV522	The Unrecognized Recreation Value of Wilderness: Defining the Future Recreation Needs of Ontarians. By Adam White. This study assesses the non-timber value of wilderness areas by examining provincial park visitation patterns, identifies barriers to park visitation, and makes park planning recommendations. 81 pages (July 1991).
$8.00	EV520	The Price of Preservation: The Value of Timber in the Carmanah Valley Watershed. By Adam White. A social cost-benefit analysis of logging in British Columbia's Carmanah Valley. Also provides a geographic and historical perspective of the area, and a critique of forest management policy in BC. 39 pages (September 1990).
$2.00	EV530	Enlisting Trees in Canada to Fight the Greenhouse Effect. By Wendy Hawthorne. Advocates policies and strategies for increasing forest growth on forest land, rural land, and in cities and other built-up areas. 11 pages (1989).
Free	EV600	Save the Forests - Sell the Trees. By Lawrence Solomon. This op-ed piece, from The Wall Street Journal, argues that private owners are more likely than governments to preserve their forests. (August 1989).

$27.50	EV501	Systems of Survival. By Jane Jacobs. An analysis of the distinct ethical structures that sustain social and economic life and the proper relationships between government and business. 236 pages, hardcover (1992).
sold out	EP005	The Conserver Solution. By Lawrence Solomon. The first popularly written argument for our conversion to a society in which environmental protection and economic growth go hand in hand. 220 pages, softcover (1978).
$1.50 (Online version is free)	EV539	Endangered Species Protection in Canada: An Overview. By Robert Rishikof. An overview of existing and proposed laws – provincial and federal – that can be used to protect endangered species and their habitat. 7 pages (June 1997).
Free	EV545	How Not to Save Species and Conservation That Works. By Elizabeth Brubaker. These op-ed pieces, from The National Post, argue for endangered species legislation that encourages voluntary arrangements giving landowners incentives to preserve species and their habitat and compensating them for losses incurred in doing so. (September 1999).
$7.00	EV524	Resource Use in Canada's Provincial and National Parks. By Tony Iacobelli. A survey of the timber harvesting, mineral extraction, oil and gas production, and other commercial activity occurring in Canada's parks. 29 pages (May 1992).
Free	EV624	Free trade to axe profits from the forest firms? By Lawrence Solomon. The Globe and Mail, May 16, 1989.
Free	EV625	Free trade and the environment. By Lawrence Solomon. Brandon Sun, November 18, 1988.
Free	EV623	We can't shift the blame: Effects of the free trade deal with the United States on our standards are neither all good nor all bad. By Lawrence Solomon. London Free Press, January 8, 1990.
Free	EV620	The Best Earth Day Present: Freedom. By Lawrence Solomon. The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 1990.