Earth day reconsidered / edited by John Baden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baden, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

United States.

Environmental protection--United States.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Heritage Foundation, [1980]

Contents:

Pt.1

Ch. 1. Introduction-Ubiquity & reality : the environment and self-interest / John Baden

Ch. 2. Good intentions and self-interest : lessons from the American Indian / John Baden, Richard L. Stroup and Wally Thurman

Ch. 3. Environmentalists and self-interest : how pure are those who disire pristine? / John Baden, Randy Simmons, and Rodney D. Fort.

Pt. 2.

Ch. 4. Environmental quality, social welfare, and bureaucratic pathologies / John Baden Richard L. Stroup

Ch. 5. Compounding clearcuts : the social failures of public timber management in the Rockies / William F. Hyde as adapted by Kay Blember

Ch. 6. An institutional dinosaur with an ace : or how to piddle away public timber wealth and foul the environment in the process / Barney Dowdle as adapted by Kay Blember

Ch. 7. Dams and other disasters : the social costs of federal water development policies / Bernard Shanks as adapted by Kay Blember

Ch. 8. Policy-induced demand for c

Notes:

"... based substantially on material and ideas generated at a conference ... held in Gallatin County, Montana, in September of 1978."

Contains bibliographies.

ISBN:

0891950281

OCLC:

6465593