Although there is in the United States a clear national consensus supporting the protection of the environment, advocates often profoundly disagree about the policies best designed to achieve this end. The traditional answer has been that government must intervene, through legislation and regulation of behavior, to preserve environmental values. Th

Free Market Environmentalism applies the economic way of thinking to environmental problems of growing importance. It examines the prospects (and pitfalls) for improving natural resource allocation and environmental quality through market processes. .

A sufficiently critical (of government) but perhaps insufficiently self-critical (i.e. of capitalism) application of capitalist economics to environmental problems. Property rights solutions that encourage market processes are proposed for public land management, outdoor recreation, water quantity and quality, and ocean fisheries. The final chapter tackles the "tougher problems" of global warming and acid rain. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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