CiNii Books - Terracotta reader : a market approach to the environment

The green movement aims at changing the human nature to preserve the environment. This book builds a terracotta movement that focuses on changing incentives to manage the environment. Terracotta means 'burnt earth,' and refers to earthenware made from this material. It is the creation of human action on a natural resource. Terracotta symbolises the philosophy that values natural resources, not in isolation, but in their relation to human beings. This relationship is not always extractive or consumptive, as the greens claim. It is often aesthetic, contemplative, and spiritual. All the varied relationships are nonetheless between humans and the ecology - and their complex interactions and interdependence. Theirs is a heroic mission to change human nature, ours is a human endeavour to create a better world by restructuring incentives. The green vision versus the terracotta vision! To provide material comforts we use material resources, leading to environmental problems. The greens' governmental approach of guns and guards has proven to be a dismal failure. Instead of rethinking the approach, they are determined to intensify it: more consciousness raising, stricter rules, harsher penalties. The terracotta approach relies on the incentives that come with resource ownership for prudent, sustainable management. The individual, family, and community owner-ship or stewardship provides right incentives. Government ownership leads to the tragedy of the collective.

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PREFACE
Shreekant Gupta
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
The Terracotta vs. Green Vision: Restructuring Incentives vs. Reforming Human Nature
Parth J. Shah and Vidisha Maitra
The State of Humanity
1. The Globalisation of Human Well-Being
INDUR M. GOKLANY
2. Population Growth, Natural Resources, and Future Generations
JULIAN SIMON. Property Rights, Markets and Sustained Development
3. The Market and Nature
FRED L. SMITH, JR.
4. The Common Law: How it Protects the Environment
ROGER E. MEINERS AND BRUCE YANDLE
5. The Theory of New Resource Economics
RANDY T. SIMMONS AND JOHN BADEN
6. Reconceptualising Sustainable Development
JULIAN MORRIS
Forests and Wildlife
7. Self Governance and Forest Resources
ELINOR OSTROM
8. Common Pool Resources and the Indian Legal System
NIRMAL SENGUPTA
9. Keepers of Forests: Foresters or Forest Dwellers?
TRUPTI PAREKH AND PARTH J. SHAH
10. Developing Markets for the Ecosystem Services of Forests
IAN POWELL, ANDY WHITE AND NATASHA LANDELL-MILLS
11. Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife
ROBERT J. SMITH
12. How to Protect Kenya's People and Wildlife
JAMES SHIKWATI
Water and Fisheries
13. Managing Water Resources: Communities and Markets
PARTH J. SHAH AND AMBRISH MEHTA
14. Water: Can Property Rights and Markets Replace Conflict?
ROGER BATE
15. Sustainable Development and Marine Fisheries
MICHAEL DE ALESSI
16. Overfishing: The Icelandic Solution
HANNES H. GISSURARSON
Living with Risk: The Precautionary Principle
17. Escaping Goblins, Only to be Captured by Wolves?
INDUR M. GOKLANY
The New Threats:. Climate Change and Biotechnology
18. A Climate of Uncertainity in The Greenhouse Century
ROBERT C. BALLING, JR.
19. The Attack on Plant Biotechnology
GREGORY CONKO AND C.S. PRAKASH
Energy and Waste Management
20. Can The Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite?
JULIAN SIMON
21. Law, Markets and Waste
JULIAN MORRIS
22. Coercive Recycling, Forced Conservation and Free-market Alternatives
JULIAN SIMON
Free Trade and Green Trade
23. Thinking Clearly About the Linkage Between Trade and the Environment
JAGDISH BHAGWATI
24. Freedom to Trade Protects the Environment
KENDRA OKONSKI
Environmentalism: The New Imperialism
25. The New Cultural Imperialism: The Greens and Economic Development
DEEPAK LAL
Epilogue
26. Environment Management in India
SOMNATH BANDYOPADHYAY
Appocalypse Now!
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