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Acting in an “environmentally responsible way,” or acting according to the “principles of environmental ethics” is taken by most people to be the most important and the only possible contribution to overcoming the destruction of our natural environment. Such behaviour consists in a person attributing a particularly high value to the conservation of nature, and believing that the “right attitude” only is able to guarantee a solution to environmental problems.
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General References to the Literature
Introductions into environmental economics are Baumöl, William J. and Oates, Wallace E. Economics, Environmental Problems and the Quality of Life. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
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The incentives and limits of free riding in the presence of public goods are discussed in Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965.
which also contains several applications. Experimental results on the conditions for, and the extent of, free riding are collected in Dawes, Robyn M. and Thaler, Richard H. “Anomalies: Cooperation.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 2 (Summer 1988): 187–197.
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Frey, B.S. (1992). Natural Environment: Environmental Protection and Environmental Ethics. In: Economics As a Science of Human Behaviour. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1374-0_3
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