Re-Thinking Green Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy

Name: Re-Thinking Green Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
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ISBN: 9780945999973

ISBN-10: 0945999976

ISBN-13: 9780945999973

Edition: 2004

Authors: Robert Higgs, Carl P. Close

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Eco-industrial parks, endangered species, entrepreneurship and coastal resource management, global warming, population growth, and regulation are among the hot topics examined in this review of environmental policies. Scholars such as Stephen M. Colarelli, Loren E. Lomasky, Craig S. Marxsen, Randal O'Toole, Sarah Peterson, and Richard L. Stroup consider the adoption of "free-market environmentalism" and offer new paradigms through which to view environmental policy. Contending that the existing maze of environmental laws and regulations have fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than innovation and success, this book dispels the economic and political…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Independent Institute, The
Publication date: 7/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English




Introduction




The Seeds of Environmental Bureaucracy



Prophecy de Novo: The Nearly Self-Fulfilling Doomsday Forecast




Doomsday Every Day: Sustainable Economics, Sustainable Tyranny




Global Issues



Population Growth: Disaster or Blessing?




After Kyoto: A Global Scramble for Advantage




Global Warming and Its Dangers




Endangered Species



The Endangered Species Act: Who's Saving What?




Fixing the Endangered Species Act




Environmental Colonialism: "Saving" Africa from Africans




The Ivory Bandwagon: International Transmission of Interest-Group Politics




Entrepreneurship, Property Rights, & Land Use



Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited




Entrepreneurship and Coastal Resource Management




To Drill or Not to Drill: Let the Environmentalists Decide




Externalities, Conflict, and Offshore Lands: resolution through the Institutions of Private Property




Urban Environments



Is Urban Planning "Creeping Socialism"?




Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning




The By-Products of Environmental Bureaucracy



Regulation by Litigation: Diesel-Engine Emission Control




The Environmental Propaganda Agency




Debating Market-Based Environmentalism



Market-Based Environmentalism and the Free Market: They're Not the Same




Market-Based Environmentalism and the Free Market: Substitutes or Complements?




Environmental Philosophy



Does "Existence Value" Exist? Environmental Economics Encroaches on Religion




Autonomy and Automobility



About the Editors


About the Contributors


Index