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Science 9 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5545, pp. 1285 - 1287
DOI: 10.1126/science.1066014
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Books
ENVIRONMENT:
Relying on Manna from Heaven?
A review by Michael Grubb
The Skeptical Environmentalist Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjørn Lomborg
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. 539 pp. $69.95, £47.50. ISBN 0-521-80447-7. Paper, $27.95, £17.95. ISBN 0-521-01068-3.
Lomborg marshals a large amount of data to argue that the important aspects of the environment are improving, that technology will solve the remaining problems, and that we therefore should not turn to governmental policy to improve the state of the world. But his rather selective use of the literature and his failure to examine possible links between previous legislation and the improvements he emphasizes undermine the claims the author and many commentators have made for the book.
The author is in the Environmental Policy and Management Group, Imperial College, RSM Building, London SW7 2BP, UK, and the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge University. E-mail: michael.grubb{at}ic.ac.uk
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