Books
- The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living
Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet
(Cato Institute, Washington, DC, 2007).
- The
Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk
Assessment (Cato Institute, Washington, DC, 2001).
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Conservation
Humanity Unbound: How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity. Policy Analysis, No. 715, Cato Institute, Washington, DC (2012).
Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity? Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (accepted, 2012).
Misled on Climate Change: How the UN IPCC (and others) Exaggerate the Impact of Global Warming, Reason Foundation, Policy Study No. 399, December 2011.
Trapped
Between the Falling Sky and the Rising Seas: The Imagined Terrors of
the Impacts of Climate Change. Prepared for University of
Pennsylvania Workshop on Markets & the Environment, draft, 13
December 2009.
Have
increases in
population, affluence and technology worsened human
and environmental well-being? Electronic
Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 1, no.3 (2009).
Is
Climate Change the "Defining Challenge of Our Age"? Energy & Enviornment 20(3):
279-302 (2009).
Technological
Substitution and Augmentation of Ecosystem Services. Draft. In:
Simon A. Levin et al. (eds.), The
Princeton Guide to Ecology (Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 2009).
“Agricultural
Technology and the Precautionary Principle.” In R.
Meiners and B. Yandle, eds., Agricultural
Policy and the Environment (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
2003), pp. 107-133.
“The
Future of Food.” Forum for
Applied Research and Public Policy 16 (no. 2, 2001): 59-65.
Applying the Precautionary Principle to
Genetically Modified Crops. Center for the Study of American
Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., USA. Policy Study 157.
August 2000. Also published in: Michael Ruse and David Castle,
eds., Genetically Modified Foods:
Debating Biotechnology (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002),
pp. 265-291.
“Precaution
Without Perversity: A Comprehensive Application of the Precautionary
Principle to Genetically Modified Crops.” Biotechnology Law Report 21 (June
2001): 377-396.
“Agriculture and the Environment: The Pros and Cons of Modern Farming.”
PERC Reports
19 (March 2001):
12-14.
“Meeting
Global Food Needs: The Environmental Trade-offs Between
Increasing Land Conversion and Land Productivity.” In J. Morris and
R.
Bate, eds., Fearing Food: Risk,
Health and Environment (Oxford, UK:
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999), pp. 256-289. Originally published
in Technology (formerly
Journal of the
Franklin Institute,
Part A)
6 (1999): 107-130.12-17.
“Saving
Habitat and Conserving Biodiversity on a Crowded Planet.” BioScience 48 (1998): 941-953.
“Conserving
Habitat, Feeding Humanity.” The
Forum on Applied Research and Public
Policy 13 (Summer 1998): 51-56.
“Technological Progress Increases Food Production.” In S. Barbour, ed.,
Hunger: Current Controversies (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1995),
pp. 118-125. (coauthored with M.W Sprague).
Sustaining
Development and Biodiversity: Productivity, Efficiency and
Conservation, Policy Analysis
No. 175, Cato Institute, Washington, DC,
1992. (Coauthored with M.W. Sprague). [Figures not included.]
America's
Biodiversity Strategy:
Actions to Conserve Species and Habitat. U. S. Department of
Agriculture and Department of the Interior, 1992. (Coauthored with
others).
“Key Issues Related to Sustainable Development: Reconciling Human
Demands on Land and Other Natural Resources With Those of Nature.”
Background Paper. Department of the Interior, Office of Policy
Analysis, October 1993.
A Different
Approach to Sustainable
Development: Conserving Forests, Habitat and Biological Diversity by
Increasing the Efficiency and Productivity of Land Utilization.
Office of Program Analysis, Department of the Interior, December
1991.(Coauthored with M.W. Sprague).
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