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Facts, Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children about the Environment
Source: PERC/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw
Country: United States

A terrific resource for anyone who wants to cut through the fear and jargon that surrounds environmental issues. (Pub. 1996, 300 pp., trade paper, LFB price $14.95)

Hoodwinking the Nation
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Julian L. Simon
Country: United States

The widespread beliefs that environmental problems and related matters are huge and getting worse are myths. The author examines how these myths are created and disseminated. 1999, 140 pages, US$29.95 cloth. Order online at the link provided.

Political Environmentalism: Going Behind the Green Curtain
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Terry L. Anderson (Editor)
Country: United States

Environmental laws have been put on a pedestal above public interest, but environmentalists are just a special-interest group, lobbying for laws that suit their needs regardless of the net effect on society. The book documents examples of how politics and environmentalism yield strange bedfellows and perverse results. (Pub. 4/00; paperback; Amazon price $19.95)

Where Garden Meets Wilderness
Source: Amazon.com/Acton Institute
Author: E. Calvin Beisner
Country: United States

"Beisner interacts critically but constructively with evangelical environmentalists' use of Scripture, theology, and ethics, pointing out both where they provide sound prescriptions and where their positions might be improved." 1997, paperback. Also available from Acton Institute at: http://www.acton.org/publicat/notes/index.html#shoppe

Silencing Science
Source: Amazon.com/Cato Institute
Author: Michael Gough and Steven J. Milloy
Country: United States

Silencing Science is a convincing account of how science is often misused or suppressed in the spirit of advancing political agendas, including those of environmental activists. (Paperback, 1999, Amazon price: $6.40)

The Common Law and The Environment: Rethinking the statutory basis for modern environmental law
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Roger Meiners and Andrew Morriss
Country: United States

The newest addition to the Political Economy Forum Series is now available. Meiners and Morriss provide a collection of essays that challenge the notion that environmental statutes in the U.S. have been relatively effective at achieving public goals. (pb, 1/00, $24.95)

The Market Meets the Environment: Economic analysis of environmental policy
Source: Political Economic Research Center
Author: Bruce Yandle, ed.
Country: United States

Bruce Yandle contributes another book to the Political Economy Research Center's Political Economy Forum series. This book is a compilation of student-authored papers from Dr. Yandle's Center for Policy and Legal Studies at Clemson University. (pb, 1999, Amazon price: $24.95 each)

Public policies for environmental protection
Source: Resources for the Future
Author: Paul R. Portney and Robert N. Stavins
Country: United States

Two notable experts in environmental economics and policy contribute the second edition of a work that's become a key teaching aid for emerging new environmentalists. (304 p., pb, RFF price: $29.95)

Free market environmental reader now available from CEI
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler, Editor
Country: United States

Take a peek into a forthcoming book edited by former CEI author Jonathan Adler. Selected chapters now available on-line. (2000, CEI Price: $16.95.)

Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Terry L. Anderson, editor
Country: United States

The contributors to this volume demonstrate how the principles of fiscal responsibility and individual accountability that have been applied to economic and social policies -- essentially free market principles -- can be applied successfully to environmental policy. Paperback, 182 pp., $5.00 from Laissez Faire. (1997)

The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assesment
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Indur M. Goklany
Country: United States

"In this innovative book, Goklany shows that the current use of the precautionary principle to justify [certain environmental] policies is flawed and could be counterproductive because it ignores the possible calamities those very policies might simultaneously create or prolong." (10/01)

Out of Bounds, Out of Control
Source: Cato Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Author: James V. DeLong
Country: United States

Scathing, thorough indictment of the EPA, coupled with ideas for reform (which won't be easy with this gorilla). 9/02 Freedom Book of the Month. (Pub. 9/02, 100 pp., paper, LFB price $8.95)

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