Open Directory - Society: Issues: Economic: Environmental
See also: - Background information on environmental issues associated with NAFTA and the World Trade Organization plus a photo gallery of the WTO protests in Seattle. - Author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist." Provides reviews, critiques, and media coverage about the book and its author. - The leading Washington think tank and policy institute's special division for environmental protection and conservation. - Ideas and discussions about environmental issues from a free market perspective. - This economist says that the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" approach of economics, forcing responsibility, is the reason some environmentalists try to discredit them. - FREE advances conservation and environmental values by applying modern science and America's founding ideas to policy debates, seminars for federal judges, environment / public environmental policy, park reform. - Information on ecological fiscal reform in Canada and around the world. Provides examples of fiscal policy for environmental objectives in various sectors and recent developments in the field. - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of economic incentives for environmental protection. - PERC is a non-profit, environmental think tank in Montana seeking market solutions to environmental problems. Research and policy analysis covers endangered species, forestry, fisheries, mining, parks and park reform, public lands, property rights, Superfund, user fees, water marketing, wildlife and environmental education. - A pro-market, public policy group committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government, including a focus on global warming, the EPA, and other environmental issues. - The Drummer presents Thoreau Institute reports, recent articles, excerpts from Different Drummer magazine, and data responding to Henry David Thoreau's (the father of environmentalism, author of Walden Pond) call for preserving the environment without big government. - Explores how the global economy impacts the environment. - A non-profit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy. The Center's distinctive role is to foster collaboration between industry, environmental organizations, government and academia. - A non-profit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society. - Works to construct a new economy centered on people and the environment - using techniques such as social and environmental auditing. - Assigning an economic value to the world's ecosystems. From the Why Files. - The center conducts and supervises research and development on economic analytic methods; leads production of cross-agency economic reports; provides guidance for performing economic analysis; and promotes consistency in the preparation and presentation of economic information in the Agency. - An article on the trend of increasing economic influence in a maturing environmental policy. (May 01, 1996)
