Additional Helpful
Organizations
Texas Justice Foundation
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Additional Resources
“Biosphere Reserves in Action: Case Studies
of the American Experience:
Published by the United States Man and the Biosphere Program
(U.S. MAB, June 1995.”
Includes studies of 12 major UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the
U.S.
The Biosphere Reserves in Texas:
3. Chihuahuan
Desert Biosphere Reserve
map
link
to main page
See our
Biosphere Reserves
Index Page
for links to all 12 studies
Websites
Houston Property Rights Association
www.houston.com
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Land Guard
Protecting the
property rights of farmers, ranchers, landowners. Enroll in LandGuard
for legal consultations and access to representation by a leading
property rights attorney.
www.landguard.org
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Texas State Legislature
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State News
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 “Free
Market Solutions to Urban Problems” - By Randal O’Toole,
Bandon, Oregon, Director - American Dream Coalition of the Independence
Institute, Senior Fellow - Cato Institute, and Senior Economist
- Thoreau Institute; Twelfth Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
States like Oregon that have “growth management”
laws require that an urban growth boundary be drawn around cities,
to stop growth beyond the boundary and “densify”
development within the boundary. This has driven up housing costs
and been a big factor in the housing bubble. Along with imposing
the urban growth boundary, cities build light rail lines to reduce
automobile use and thereby reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,
which is thought to be a primary cause of global warming. But
light rail is not effective either in attracting riders or reducing
carbon dioxide. Efficient cars are better at reducing emissions
per passenger mile and cheaper.
More on this
topic: Zoning
& Building Codes — National
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 “Small
Business and Private Property Rights” - By Raymond J.
Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Council, Washington, D.C. and Columnist, Newsday, Long
Island, New York; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Local zoning often is a tool of special interests to force
small businesses to give up. Government uses its power of eminent
domain for economic development for well-financed entities at
the expense of small business. During the past 100 years, government
has lost respect for private property owners when developing
sports stadiums, which used to fit around private property. In
addition, it should be more recognized that intellectual private
property rights protect the interests of small businesses, not
just “big pharma.”
More on this
topic: Eminent
Domain — National
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topic: Zoning
& Building Codes — National
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 “New
Wave of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Proposed” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse (PRFA Position Brief, June 2007)
This spring, the National Park Service announced that 36 locations
in the United States have been proposed for UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, adding to the twenty that already are designated in this
country. Such international recognition potentially threatens
private property rights because preservationists could exploit
the designation to stop the use of land in the region just beyond
a site’s borders.
More on this
topic: Biosphere
Reserves & World Heritage Sites
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Photo by Kevin Bartram
Galveston County Daily News,
used by permission.
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- “Sustaining
a Local Property Rights Group” - Barry Klein, President
Houston Property Rights Association, Reprinted from Proceedings
of the Fifth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA 2000)
Sustaining the property rights association that leads the
battle to keep zoning out of Houston involves a sophisticated,
thorough knowledge of urban affairs; weekly meetings hosting
worthwhile speakers; a regular newsletter; political organizing;
and the sustenance of volunteers and funding.
More on this
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