Elizabeth Brubaker is the executive director of Environment Probe, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation. She is the author of Property Rights in the Defence of Nature, published in 1995 by Earthscan, and contributed a chapter on the environmental implications of establishing property rights in fish to Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fisheries Management on the Atlantic Coast. Ms Brubaker has written on a broad range of environmental issues including water quality, water pricing, and the siting of controversial facilities.