Re-Thinking Green : Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy.
Title:
Re-Thinking Green : Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy.
Author:
Higgs, Robert.
ISBN:
9781598131031
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: The Seeds of Environmental Bureaucracy -- Chapter 2 - Prophecy de Novo: The Nearly Self-Fulfilling -- Chapter 3 - Doomsday Every Day: Sustainable Economics, Sustainable Tyranny -- Part II: Global Issues -- Chapter 4 - Population Growth: Disaster or Blessing? -- Chapter 5 - After Kyoto: A Global Scramble for Advantage -- Chapter 6 - Global Warming and Its Dangers -- Part III: Endangered Species -- Chapter 7 - The Endangered Species Act: Who's Saving What? -- Chapter 8 - Fixing the Endangered Species Act -- Chapter 9 - Environmental Colonialism: "Saving" Africa from Africans -- Chapter 10 - The Ivory Bandwagon: International Transmission of Interest-Group Politics -- Part IV: Entrepreneurship, Property Rights, & Land Use -- Chapter 11 - Free Riders and Collective Action Revisited -- Chapter 12 - Entrepreneurship and Coastal Resource Management -- Chapter 13 - To Drill or Not to Drill: Let the Environmentalists Decide -- Chapter 14 - Externalities, Conflict, and Offshore Lands: Resolution through the Institutions of Private Property -- Part V: Urban Environments -- Chapter 15 - Is Urban Planning "Creeping Socialism"? -- Chapter 16 - Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning -- Part VI: The By-Products of Environmental Bureaucracy -- Chapter 17 - Regulation by Litigation: Diesel-Engine Emission Control -- Chapter 18 - The Environmental Propaganda Agency -- Part VII: Debating Market-Based Environmentalism -- Chapter 19 - Market-Based Environmentalism and the Free Market: -- Chapter 20 - Market-Based Environmentalism and the Free Market: -- Part VIII: Environmental Philosophy -- Chapter 21 - Does "Existence Value" Exist? Environmental Economics Encroaches on Religion -- Chapter 22 - Autonomy and Automobility -- About the Editors.
About the Contributors -- Index -- About the Independent Institute -- Independent Studies in Political Economty -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
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 regulatory processes. It addresses some of the most hotly debated environmental issues and shows how entrepreneurship and property rights can be utilized to promote environmental quality and economic growth.Re-Thinking Green will challenge readers with new paradigms for resolving environmental problems, stimulate discussion on how best to "humanize" environmental policy, and inspire policymakers to seek effective alternatives to environmental bureaucracy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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