Free-Market Environmentalism
Free-Market Environmentalism
Free-Market Environmentalism Links
- Environment Archive of Independent Review Features a wide variety of essays published in Independent Review which explore free market environmentalism and its policy suggestions.
- "Can Selfishness Save the Environment?" This article illustrates the merging of two disciplines, biology and economics, to demonstrate that collective approaches will fail in protecting the environment. Successful environmental protection occurs when individual incentives are changed, argue the authors.
- Making the Polluters Pay Intuitive definition of the "polluter pays" principle, a guideline of free-market environmentalism. Free-market environmental scholar Jonathan Adler defines pollution, and argues that most environmental policy rarely operates under this definition.
- The Endangered Species Act: Who's Saving What? A paper that explores the economics and politics of the Endangered Species Act, arguing that it suffers from perverse incentives and a lack of prioritization resulting in few (if any) species saved.
- Free Market Environmental networkRoom The online clearing house and conference center for activists and insiders in the free market environmental movement.
- Capitalism and Sustainability Argues that resources least governed by property rights are those where environmental concerns are the greatest; the solution is to extend property rights to the commons, not to prevent them.
- The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garrett Hardin (1968) An essay that forms the background for much of free-market environmental thinking, which asks how property rights can be extended into commonly held resources, to promote incentives to protect (rather than harm) the environment.
- Does "Existence Value" Exist? A paper that explores the ideas of "existence value" in economics and argues that it is a problematic concept loaded with theoretical and value implications that make it more at home in theology than in economics.
- Free-Market Environmentalism Forum Interactive forum for discussing a variety of approaches to environmental issues. Frequented by all types of environmentalists, not just free-market ones, who are interested in debating about specifics.
- Market-Based Environmentalism vs. the Free Market This article highlights the nuances of "market-based" solutions to environmental concerns, such as excise taxes and pollution permits, arguing that they are not consistent with a truly free-market approach to protecting the environment.
- Earth and the Unbalanced A free-market environmental critique of Al Gore's modern Malthusian environmental policy. Contains a wide database of articles that serve to refute the environmental status quo.
- Center for Private Conservation Researches, analyzes and promotes voluntary and private means of advancing environmental conservation. Site features in-depth case studies of endangered species and landmarks, writings on the theoretical basis for private conservation, and roundtable discussions on current environmental topics.
- Who Will Save the Wild Tiger? Examines alternative solutions to wildlife conservation by promoting economic incentives that work to the wild tiger population's advantage, rather than disadvantage.
- Free Trade is Green Trade A useful assessment of the effects of trade on the environment, which suggests that free trade creates a cleaner environment by promoting wealth creation, when private property institutions are in place.
- Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) CFACT strongly believes consumer and environmental problems can be best met and overcome through the ingenuity of science, the power of the free-enterprise system, and the traditional Western values of progress, freedom, and wise stewardship.
- The Common Sense Environmentalist's Suite Brings together the best research and commentary on sound science and market-based environmental protection from the nation's leading think tanks and advocacy groups.
- The Common Law Approach to Pollution Prevention A roundtable discussion which examines the nuances of using the common law to protect the environment as an alternative to regulatory policy.
- National Wilderness Institute Free-market environmentalist organization. Site features online publications, studies, and reports.
- Free-Market Environmentalism FAQ Answers to many common questions and concerns over free-market environmentalism, its intentions, the intellectual theories behind it. Not in-depth, but a useful summary.
- Population Growth: Disaster or Blessing? Examines the argument that population growth is an obstance to economic progress in underdeveloped countries, and concludes that the real cause of poverty, however, is peoples conduct (not numbers of people).
- Environment and Climate News Monthly newspaper reporting on efforts nationwide to adopt free market, sound science policies for environment reform.
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