Protecting the environment with the power of the market
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Free-market environmentalism is beginning to show results in reducing pollution and conserving natural resources. The movement uses the market to encourage environmental protection through such means as user fees for solid-waste disposal and water use based on their true cost.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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Is environmental technology a key to a healthy economy?
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Pres Clinton and the Congress are encouraging the development of exportable green technologies, such as nonpolluting automobiles and pollution control equipment. Industrial leaders, however, are more cautions about the benefits of green technologies.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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How to make the forests of the world pay their way
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Sustainable forestry practices can help to preserve the world's tropical forests. Setting aside areas as extractive reserves and preplanning logging have environmental benefits, although they are not perfect solutions.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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