Environment Resources and the Marketplace
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781863731386
Subjects: Environmental studies
Description: " ... [This book] demonstrates that harnessing the entepreneurial incentives of the marketplace is essential to achieving a higher standard of living and improved environmental quality. A key role for government in environmental policy should be defining the broad boundaries within which markets can operate. But private owners, not governments, should typically be the arbiters of detailed resource management decisions..."--Back cover.