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1 online resource (477 pages) |
| Contents |
Prophecy de Novo : the nearly self-fulfilling doomsday forecast / Craig S. Marxsen -- Doomsday every day : sustainable economics, sustainable tyranny / Jacqueline R. Kasun -- Population growth : disaster or blessing? / Peter T. Bauer -- Afte Kyoto : a global scramble for advantage / Bruce Yandle -- Global warming and its dangers / J.R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee -- Endangered Species Act : who's saving what? ; Fixing the Endangered Species Act / Randy T. Simmons -- Environmental colonialism : "saving" Africa from Africans / Robert H. Nelson -- Ivory bandwagon : international transmission of interest-group politics / William H. Kaempfer and Anton D. Lowenberg -- Free riders and collective action revisited / Richard L. Stroup -- Entrepreneurship and coastal resource management / Janice R. Rinehart and Jeffrey J. Pompe -- To drill or not to drill : let the environmentalists decide / Dwight R. Lee -- Externalities, conflict, and offshore lands : resolution through the institutions of private property / John Brätland -- Is urban planning "creeping socialism"? / Randal O'Toole -- Eco-industrial parks : the case for private planning / Pierre Desrochers -- Regulation by litigation : diesel-engine emission control / Bruce Yandle and Andrew P. Morriss -- Environmental propaganda agency / Craig S. Marxsen -- Market-based environmentalism and the free market : they're not the same / Roy E. Cordato -- Market-based environmentalism and the free market : substitutes or complements? / Peter J. Hill -- Does "existence value" exist? : environmental economics encroaches on religion / Robert H. Nelson -- Autonomy and automobility / Loren E. Lomasky |
| Summary |
Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental laws and regulations enacted since then has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success. Can we do better than this failed environmental bureaucracy? The noted contributors to this volume answer with a resounding "yes."Re-Thinking Green exposes the myths that have contributed to failed environmental policies and proposes bold alternatives that recognize the power of incentives and the limitations of political and reg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Environmentalism.
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Green movement.
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental impact analysis.
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environmental policy.
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environmental impact statements.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Environmental impact analysis
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Environmental policy
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Environmentalism
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Green movement
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Higgs, Robert.
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Close, Carl P., 1962-
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| ISBN |
9781598131031 |
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1598131036 |
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9781598131024 |
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1598131028 |
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9780702250385 |
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0702250384 |
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