16/11/2008
: Obama's climate change
policy?
Please do read the excellent "Green,
easy and wrong: why a verdant New Deal would be bad idea?"
(48Ko)
article from The Economist. Combatting climate change by massive subsidies to
clean energy, as a kind of New Deal, could be counter productive.
15/11/2008
: Please do read the
excellent policy paper "The
Invisible Green Hand"
(4436Ko)
published by the Mercatus Center of
George Mason University.The author Pierre Desrochers, professor at the
University of Toronto, demonstrates that corporate self interest and
environmental stewardship are compatible and that accordingly many environmental
regulations are counterproductive.and have to be reconsidered.
By the way Pierre came and spoke at our International Conferences of 2004 and
2008.
13/10/2008 :
Averting fishing disaster
At last free market environmentalism solutions are being
considered!
No wonder that The Economist is again advocating Individual
Transferable Quotas (ITQ) since this weekly is for long familiar with market
solutions for environmental resource management.(A
rising tide
69Ko)
Newsweek paper on “The Tragic Tale of the Last
Tuna”pinpoints the misbehavior of the French govenment in order to keep
fishermen happy. (The
Tragic Tale Of The Last Tuna
47Ko)
Most interesting and surprising is an article in Le Monde, usually
politically correct, which also advocates ITQ.(L'attribution
de quotas de pêche individuels permet de lutter contre l’effondrement des stocks
17Ko)
In addition we submitted a paper to the daily “Les Echos” with a critical
view of the French President who advocated additional catches. (Assouplir
les quotas de pêche, oui… mais dans quel sens ?
15Ko)
As a matter of fact the French law forbids property rights or
“patrimonalisation” of sea resources, which means open access and the “Tragedy
of the Commons”
When we set up the International Conference on Property Rights, Economics and
Environment: Marine Resources in 2000, the French Fishermen Association declined
the invitation to speak and discuss the issue.
We hope that the proceedings of our international conference, translated and
published in English “Marine Resources: Property Rights, Economics and
Environment” (Elsevier 2002), could act as an intellectual guidance for
officials.
30/09/2008
: "The first Earth Day
took place in Philadelphia on April 22nd 1970 and since is devoutly celebrated
each year as the cornestone of the deep ecology movment. By the way one should
mention that one of its leader, Ira Einhorn, is serving a life sententence for
murder of his girl friend.
It is wise to recall the catastrophic predictions of that time in order to
reassess the present malthusian ones. Happy to be alive and kicking!"
EARTH DAY 2008: PREDICTIONS
OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER WERE WRONG
(30ko)
28/09/2008
: Two papers have just been
published: one by
Dominique Garrigues in "Les Echos"(81ko),
a leading daily newspaper and the other in the world famous weekly
"The Economist"(86ko).
It looks like that demagogy and irresponsability push too often officials to
unwise decisions whose economic, social and even environmental side effects
began to appear.
Regulatory assessment should be introduced parallell to now compulsory projects,
plans and programs assessment (European Directive 2001).
24/08/2008
: To quotes to remember
"If it is feasible to establish a market to implement a policy, no policy maker
can afford to do without one" J. H. Dales quoted by D. Ellerman at the 7th ICREI
International Conference.
"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best
interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.Freedom in the
commons brings ruin to all" G. Hardin (1968)
24/08/2008
: We invite you to read the
excellent article
(92ko) just published by
The Economist which pays a tribute to both Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrom. The
Common Property Resource management theory is largely ignored in France as an
alternative to public and private property.
However we always invited a member of the International Association for the
Study of Common Property to make a contribution at each of our seven
International Conferences.
25/07/2008
: You can listen
Radio France International July 8th debate (alas in French!) between
Max Falque and Jean-Michel Valantin on worldwide environmental governance: quite
different visions. mp3
(3283ko)
. See our documentation page.
Bibliography has been updated.
27/06/2008 : The
Conference looks as a great success in terms of excellent contributions which
were summed up in the General Report presented the last day and written by Henri
Lamotte during the night of June 24-25th. This key document will be posted in
July.
During the formal diner on June 24th a large and opened discussion dealt with
the format of our conferences. It appears that new time constraints for top
people are no longer compatible with our 3 days traditional format. So we
consider that the "Biodiversity" 2010 conference could take place on two days
with a limited number of contributors (some 30 instead of 60).
Now we have to look after the proceedings to be published in 2009...a 7th book.
Thanks to all who participated intellectually, financially and in terms of
organisation.
Max Falque
23/06/2008 : The
7th International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate Change" has been opened
by the Provost of the University Paul Cézanne in Aix en Provence. During the
morning several speakers expressed their theoretical
view,
both in legal and economics terms about pollution quota at the world and
European context.
In free workshops were discussed the issues of the civil society and quota
market to its possibility and limits, and eventually to define the legal and
economics issues. After the lunch inside the University premises, workshop
reporters presented was has been said.
Now a plenary session and round table with actors of CO2 markets take place and
from 7pm on, the city of Aix en Provence and ICREI offer a cocktail and jazz
concert of the 20's in the garden of the 18th century Pavillon Vendôme.
11/06/2008 : The
draft
detailed program of our 7th International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate
Change"
(130ko)
has been updated.
The
booklet
(2343ko) of our 7th
International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate Change" has been
updated.
08/06/2008 : The
draft
detailed program of our 7th International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate
Change"
(130ko)
has been updated.
13/05/2008 : The
booklet
(1785ko) of our 7th
International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate Change" has been posted.
05/05/2008 : The
registration form has been posted.
The
draft
detailed program of our 7th International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate
Change"
(154ko)
has been updated.
02/05/2008 : You
are invited to check the
draft detailed
program of our 7th International Conference "Air Pollution and Climate Change"
(154ko)
(Aix en Provence June 23-25th). The official program, with
registration form, will be posted at the begining of May.
12/04/2008 : The
"2007
International Property Right Index" published under the responsibility of
Hernando De Soto
(2518ko), presents each year the significance of both physical and
intellectual property rights and their protection for economic and accordingly
environmental well being. The final result presents the case that countries with
higher ranking are primarily industrialized economies. Conversely, countries
that show a weak performance with respect to protect property rights are African
and Latin American.
This excellent report should be assigned reading to all politicians and
bureaucrats alike who, too often ,are playing at reshufling private property
rights in the name of public interest but eventually limit liberty, prosperity
and environmental protection.
Among contributors no wonder we find several names associated with ICREI
International Conferences: Richard Epstein, Daniel Cole, Elizabeth Brubaker,
Barun Mitra, Fred Smith, Elinor Ostrom and Julian Morris.
27/03/2008 : Please
do read the
excellent
report of the Session 442 set up by the Salzburg Seminar in
May 2007
(219ko). "Making Green Pay:
designing incentives to support environmental sustainability". Of course command
and control policies of the last century are unable to cope with new challenges
such as global warming. The roles of government and environmental NGOs must
simultaneously shift to set benchmark standards and create economic incentives
for private industry, and help to inform and monitor the transformative process.
Othe new papers on our documentation page.
15/03/2008 : We'll post basic papers which are often referred too such as those of Garret Hardin and Harold Demsetz. After all ideas lead the world! !
03/03/2008 : "The
preparation of the
next June Conference
is progressing satisfactorily and you
can check the
updated general program brochure
(67ko). The detailed
program is to be finalised and the corresponding booklet will be posted,
printed and sent before the end of March.
The consultation of the present web site is increasing and very often we counts
more than 2500 hits per week".
29/02/2008 : "We encourage you to read "Europe's Philosophy of Failure", an article published in the late issue of "Foreign Policy". Stefan Theil demonstrates that in France and Germany students are taught that economic principles such as free markets and and entrepreneurship are immoral.
One can imagine that Free Market Environmentalism, based on property rights and markets will not be implemented without intellectual reform. If Sustainable Development is to become effective it has to consider the fact that there is no such a thing as a free lunch. Economics and envirnmental resources management are inseparable twins and in addition the corner stone of liberty".
We add this paper in our documentation page.
Bibliograhy has been updated.
14/02/2008 : The proceedings of our 6th International Conference (June 2006) are now published in French. However 21 articles originally presented in English are posted.
25/01/2008 : The
14th Heritage Foundation Annual Report "Index of Economic Freedon" is now posted
on Heritage web site.It ranks 162 countries according to 10 specific factors
among them "Property Rights".
France ranks only 48th with an overall score of 65.5 out of 100. (however 2.5
point over last year).For "Property Rights" France score 70 which largely under
most European Union countries which score 90.But the rather low overall ranking
is due to "Government Size" scoring 13.2.
Heritage Commentary: "Economic theory dating back to the publication of Adam
Smith's The wealth of Nations in 1776 emphasizes the lesson that basic
institutions that protect the liberty of individuals to pursue their own
economic interests result in greater prosperity for the larger society"...and are
the key of environmental quality!
The proceedings
(1,5Mo)
from the
2006
conference "land ressources"
are coming soon in french ...
14/01/2008 :
"For the first time we got more than 2 000 hits on our web site, totalling
nearly 230 000 hits since its creation. By the way our site is the only
bilingual one in the world giving informations on so called New Environmentalism
or Free Market Environmentalism".
17 new references have been added on our
bibliography page.
01/01/2008 :
Happy New Year
(18 Ko).
"Grenelle de l'environnement" New
environmentalism or status quo ?
(103 Ko).
A new paper from Shreekant Gupta has been posted on our
documentation page.
12/12/2007 :
Mrs Kosciusko-Morizet, junior Minister for Ecology, will come and speak at our
June
International Conference....but
the very day is to be decided according to her tight timetable.
We rank among our major intellectual and financial supports the "Association for
Promoting Research on Carbon Economy" thanks to C. de Perthuis, head of the
"Mission Climat" at Caisee des Dépôts et Consignation Banking Group and D.
Ellerman, professor at MIT and Paris-Dauphine University.
Our Deputy Chairman, Henri Lamotte is speaking at the Bali Climate Conference as
the representive of Mrs Lagarde, Minister of Finance. Chairman Stoffaès is also
attending and meet several contributors at our June Conference.
2008 7th
conference "Air pollution and climate change"
(343ko).
27/07/2007 :
The French National Conference on Environment: the temptation of status quo
The French Government has planned in autumn a national meeting where
environmental parties (NGO, business, govenments, agencies, unions...) will
meet in order to discuss environmental issues and means to cope with them. The
name "Grenelle de l'Environnement"refers to the post 1968 meeting dealing with a
new set of labour-business relations.
ICREI is on the verge of publishing an article in the national press advocating
the opportunity to assess the poor performances of "command and control"
policies implemented during the last 40 years and to imagine a "new
environmentalism" based on property rights and market, wherever it is possible,
to challenge the coming problems. We then could improve individual liberty and
responsibility as well as decreasing costs and increasing performances. This
paper is being signed by several key figures.
11/07/2007 :
A new President for
ICREI: after 11 years, Michel Massenet resigned for health problems. Though
Conseiller d'Etat he was a real maverik, the key actor of the setting up of
our International Conferences and coeditor of our first two books. Consulted for
the selection of a new president he fully approved the choice of Christian
Stoffaes.
Christian Stoffaes graduated from top French schools (Ecole Polytechnique and
Sciences Politiques) and got a MBA at Harvard. As a high ranking civil servant
he was associated with setting up and implementing major environmental policies
both at the French and EU levels. His intellectual ability is matched by
independance of mind and deep classical liberalism.
The
Euromed
- School of Management which links the Provençal business community with
education of future top managers asked to join ICREI as a full partner. In
addition, at the national level Institut
de l'Entreprise and
Entreprises pour
l'Environnement are
very intrested in participating to the 2008 Climate Change Confernece. The
American Enterprise Institute
is considering a financial and
intellectual participation as well as
Natixis
Bank and
Total
Corporation.
The manuscript of the
proceedings of the
2006 Land Resources Conference
has been sent for publication and the
some 550 pages book will be available in September. A shorter version in English
is considered by the
Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy.
12/06/2007 :
As you already know our 7th International Conference will be held in Aix en
Procence on June 23, 24 and 25 2008 and will deal with "Air Pollution and
Climate Change"
The draft and tentative program
(67ko)
is now well under way and already several contributors and sponsors are very
interested.
By the way we do not want to be involved in the bitter fight between those who
consider global warming as a consequence of human activities (especially CO2
emissions) and so called "Climate sceptics" who think that global warming (if
any) is linked to natural phenomena (solar activity).
We consider global warming as a given and what will be discussed in Aix en
Provence is limited to devising the approriate economic, legal, rugulatory and
technical tools best suited to cope with global warming in the framework of
individual and public liberty.
We'll post the revised program every month on this site.
Proposals for papers are welcome
max.falque@wanadoo.fr
17/05/2007 : National Center for Public Policy Research is now linked on our website.
24/04/2007 : New papers have been added in the documentation page. The General bibliography increased by 14 new references.
12/04/2007 :
13/03/2007 : The "Property and Environment Research Center" (well known by its acronym PERC) is certainly the best and most popular think tank worldwide dealing with the relations between property rights and environment. Among its numerous publications the last issue of PERC Reports www.perc.org "Celebrating 15 years of Free Market Environmentalism" deserves a minute reading. The introduction epitomizes its philosophy "At the heart of free market environmentalism is a system of well-specified property rights to natural resources. Whether these rights are held by, individuals, corporations, non profit environmental groups, or communal groups, a discipline is imposed on resource users because the wealth of the owner of the property right is at stake if bad decisions are made".
09/03/2007 :
You'll can find the
outline of the proceedings of the "Land Resources" Conference
41ko
(Aix en Provence, June 2006) to be published in French (sorry!)
by Bruylant in Brussels next June An English abridged version is considered by
the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy but to date no decision. Anyway, if no
publication, all papers originally in English will be posted on our site.
The Steering Group for the next iInternational Conference dealing with "Air
Pollution and Climate Change "met at OECD on February 13th. The discussion is
about the respective importance one must give to "Mitigation" and "Adaptation" .
We plan to circulate a draft document at the begining of April.
24/02/2007 :
The IPCC report of the Paris
Conference is an important document as a reference :
Climate
Change 2007
2263ko
(documentation
page).
28/01/2007 :
Héritage et Progrès, a
think tank chaired by Christian Julienne, sets up a half day Conference on
"Developing land in surburban areas in order to house many and protect the
Environment: changing the rules"
to be held on February 8th at the Avignon University. Max Falque
will speak on zoning failure and new contractual tools, many of them extensively
discussed at our 6th International Conference of June 2006.
To register call Sylvie Paturaut at 33 (0) 4 32 70 19 13.
The publication of the proceedings of
the June 2006 Conference is
slightly delayed because 3 contributors did not send their their papers yet .June
seems likely.
21/01/2007 : Severals articles have been added in the documentation page and the bibliography has been updated.
24/12/2006
:
Happy New Year 2007
We take the Xmas Seanson's Greeting opportunity to inform you that the
proceedings of our "Land Resources" Conference
will be available next May....alas only in French. An abridged English version
is under consideration by the
Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy. Anyway, if not so, the original papers presented in English will be
posted.
We are now busy with setting up a draft programme for the June 2008 7th
International Conference on "Air Pollution and Global Warming". The topic raises
great interest and we'll be able to post an outline in April.
We'll participate to several meeting and conferences to promote our ideas,
especially for the promotion of our 6th book when available in May.
On behalf of the Board
Max Falque
Managing Director
10/12/2006 :
Up to now and since its creation
in 2001 our website has been visited by more than 143 000 and after a low due to
the Summer recess we now count more than 1 600 hits per week. No doubt that the
topic of our next International Conference on
Air and Global Warming will increase interest
of environmentalists.
The translations for the proceedings of our
6th
Conference are nearly
completed and the deadline for the publication in French by Bruylant Publishing
C° (April 2007) is to be confirmed. As for a publication in English with funding
by the
Lincoln Institute for Land
Policy no decision has been
taken.
09/12/2006 :
Many
links
recommended by our Délégué Général Max Falque have been added :
American
Enterprise Institute, the
Institut Hayek,
the
Délégation à l’aménagement et à la compétitivité des
territoires (DIACT), the
Fédération nationale des Chasseurs,
the
Fondation
pour la Protection des Habitats de la Faune Sauvage,
Forêt Privée Française,
The
Instituto Bruno Leoni,
Réseaux
de Transport d'Électricité.
Click ...
20/11/2006 : If you read French please do check Max Falque's paper published in Les Echos, the leading French daily on economics and business, advocating for adaptation policies in conjunction with mitigation to cope with global warming. A no-growth policy is the worst solution.
15/11/2006 : The Dolan's paper published in the Cato Journal (Fall 2006) addresses the climate warming issue in relation with Locke and Hayek theories on property rights and market instruments. Market liberals can make a valuable contribution provided they do not stick to conservative positions and funding considerations. One must consider the world air-shed as unenclosed commons. Defending unjustly acquired property rights is not a classicl liberal position. This paper is a major contribution to inspire a free market environmentalism solution to a pure public good.
22/10/2006 :
As announced previously our next
International Conference will deal with “Air and Climate Change”
The issue of globlal warming took a worlwide dimension in the media with Al
Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth”.
You’ll find a severe
critique of this film in the Competitive Enterprise Institute paper by Mario
Lewis that we put in line (see
documentation
page).
You could find more on
www.cei.org
Of course we are not in a position to approve or
disapprove it. However confrontation of ideas is of paramount importance if we
want to avoid a kind of witchhunt by the media and officials alike against any
global warming heretic. This happened recently in France when Claude Allègre, a
decorated scientific and former socialist minister, defected from belief in
global warming.
In addition you should check the excellent “Survey of Climate Change, the Heat
is on” published by “The Economist” on September 9th .
Some papers from Roger Bate have been included in our documentation web page.
As for the proceedings we have already received some 10 final papers (translation under way) and we remind you that the deadline for submission is end September. For the time being we plan a publication in French but if we get additional funding an English version is to be considered.Enjoy your summer recess
Sincerely
Max Falque
M. Galey's paper «Le problème de l'indemnisation des servitudes d'environnement» available on our website www.environnement-propiete.org has been linked by l'Infothèque francophone http://www.infotheque.info provided by the Francophonie Academic Agency (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie AUF, http://www.auf.org,) whose objective is to facilitate the access of the students of the French-speaking countries of the South to the French-speaking resources teaching and scientific available in free access on Internet.
Some new references have increased our bibliography page.
The
final
lecturers documentation is online
(448ko)
including the
2006 conference
programme
with the differents contributors abstracts an CVs.
Unfortunately Richard Epstein, Orlando Delogu and Jean-Luc Migué will not attend for health problems but their contributions will be presented as planned. This is also the case for Bernard-Frank Macera and Lisa Jaeger who are to stay in Spain and US for professional committments.
The
Instituto Bruno Leoni provided a
press release to
promote the 2006 conference.
(226ko)
On May 10, Euro 92 organized a conference at Assemblée Nationale where M. Falque, H. Lamotte and J.-F. Saglio presented the proceedings of the 2004 Conference on "Wastes". By the same token the 2006 programme was discussed within the framework of the strategy initiated since 1996.
The
purchase order for the
Waste 2004 conference's proceeding is on line.
" "Patrimoine et Cadre de vie", the quaterly published by Ligue Urbaine et Rurale", an association created before World War 2 by the famous playwriter Jean Giraudoux, is dedicated to Wastes. An important paper by Henri Lamotte sums up some of the ideas developped during our 2004 Conference stressing the necessity to introduce pay-as-you-throw taxing devices in order to introduce the virtuous cycle of individual responsability
2006 conference - Land resources has been updated.
Up to now our website has been visited more than 1005 000 and the weekly average hits are some 1 100.
Futian Qu and Shi Xiaoping of Nanjing Agricultural University will make a contribution on the environmental conservation of farmland facing urban development in the context of the new Chinese Constitution securing private and village property rights.
The Water Public Agency will participate intellectually and financially.
We met the "Association Internationale des Maires Francophones" which is very interested in being actively involved.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will sponsor a special session on "Liberty, Property Rights and Environment in Europe and the US". This session will probably take place on Monday June 26th afternoon.
José Maria Aznar, former prime minister of Spain and chairman of FAES think tank, has agreed to be member of our patronage committee.
The detailed programme is under completion and will be available on line in March but of course it will evolve until June. A printed (1500 copies) document will printed and circulated in April.
(25Ko)
is onlineOn November 17th 2005 the Steering Group met in Paris in order to discuss both the budget (quite tricky!) and the programme ( very dense!). If funding the conference proper is more or less set up, publishing the proceedings in 2007 needs additional and active fund raising from all members.
The proceedings of the 2004 "Wastes" Conference are published and Bruylant Publisher will send the book (638 pp.) as a Christmas gift to contributors. Unfortunately we are not in a position to publish in English but all original English contributions will be posted on this site.
(324ko) is printed
in 3 000 copies and is to be sent by surface mail to all concerned by past and
future conferences. Up to date over 70 contributors are listed for
June 2006.
The proceedings of 2002 Conference have just been published in French by
Bruylant Publishers (Brussels)
"Droits de
propriété, Economie et Environnement: le Littoral"
Falque and Lamotte,
editors (620 pp.)
