Entrepreneurship for the Environment

This book is the result of ideas exchanged at the tenth international conference organi- zed by ICREI on July 7th and 8th July, 2016 at Aix-en-Provence, in coordination with the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe. It suggests mobilizing entrepreneurs to protect and manage environmental resources, within the framework of law. Economic agents can find relevant and innovative ways to transform the environmental problems into assets using the market economy. In twenty chapters one can find ways and means to limit the role of governments. As a matter of fact, for many environmentalists and a large part of public opinion and media, business and corporations are responsible for the overexploitation of resources and pollution. Accordingly they advocate taming progress and even economic stagnation. In reality, experience shows that in developed countries, for two centuries, the quality of the environment improves due to the economic drive of enterprises, provided they act within rule of law which allows them to invest in order to wisely use the resources. Innovation is due to individuals and organizations who, like entrepreneurs, depend on free contracting, secure property rights and market in order to protect and manage environmental resources. This book present and future entrepre- neurs will find arguments, and case studies to further contribute to a sustainable and balanced management of the planet.

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See the presentation in French in the Journal des Libertés.

ContentPARTIE 1 – TEMOIGNAGES ET ETUDES DE CAS / EVIDENCE AND CASE STUDIES 23

  1. Environmental entrepreneurship: case studies of common pools with the Ostroms

Entreprenariat environnemental et gestion des biens communs avec les Ostrom

John Baden (Free Foundation, Montana) 24

  1. Opportunities for the Environmental Entrepreneur

Opportunités pour les enviropreneurs

Iain Murray (Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C.) . . . 31

  1. Entrepreneurship and the Environmental Discovery Process

Entreprenariat environnemental et processus de découverte

Paul Schwennesen (Agrarian Freedom Project) 34

  1. Agricultural Land: Management in common, from concepts to implementation

Gestion agricole en commun : dui concept à la mise en oeuvre

Sjoerd Wartena (Terre de Liens) 42

  1. The underwater enviropreneur

L’enviropreneur sous-marin

Reed Watson (PERC Institute, Montana) 49

PARTIE 2 – QUESTIONS DE DROITS / LEGAL ISSUES 53

  1. Protection des actifs immatériels de l’entrepreneur environnemental

Protecting non-material environmental resources

Pierre-Dominique Cervetti (Avocat et Professeur de Droit, Aix-Marseille Université)  54

  1. Stimulating Private Land Conservation Entrepreneurship

Encourager l’entreprenariat pour la protection de la nature

Thierry de l’Escaille (European Landowners’ Organisation) 67

  1. Droits de propriété et entrepreneuriat environnemental en Afrique

Property rights and environmental management in Africa

Robinson Tchapmegni (Professeur de droit, Québec) 77

PARTIE 3 – ÉCONOMIE ET SCIENCES POLITIQUES / ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE 87

  1. Afrique du Nord et Moyen-Orient : environnement, croissance et entreprises vertes

North Africa, Middle East: environment, growth and green entrepreneurship

Antoine-Tristan Mocilnikar (Ministère de l’Environnement, France) 88

  1. Incentives or market failure : diverging policies on waste management

Incitations ou écueil de marché : des politiques divergentes pour gérerles déchets

Pierre Desrochers et Erwan Queinnec (Universités de Paris et Toronto) 98

  1. Green entrepreneurship for innovation and growth: what can governments do ?

Entreprenariat vert : pour l’innovation et la croissance, qu’attendre des politiques publiques ?

Lucia Cusmano (OCDE) 110

  1. Cleantech start-up development

De nouvelles entreprises pour l’environnement

David Dornbusch (CleanTusday) 120

  1. Verdissement : par l’entrepriset ou par une action politique ?

Greening : thanks to entrepreneurship or politics ?

François Facchini & Benjamin Michallet (Université Paris – Panthéon-Sorbonne) 125

  1. Institutions et entreprenariat environnemental

Institutions and environmental entrepreneurship

Max Falque (ICREI) 141

PARTIE 4 – REFLEXIONS DOCTRINALES / DOCTRINE 151

  1. Les éco-entreprises : des entreprises comme les autres ?

Are eco-enterprises different ?

Michel Debruyne (Université de Lille) 152

  1. Entreprise et développement durable : au-delà des apparences

Enterprises and sustainable development : beyond first sight

Dominique Bidou (Consultant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

  1. Économie circulaire, entreprises, territoires : freins et leviers

Incentives, checks and balances for a circular economy

Yvette Lazzeri (Aix Marseille Université – CERIC) 173

  1. Ecologie & entreprenariat : comparaison entre la France et les Etats-Unis

Ecology and entrepreneurship in the US and France

Michel Marchesnay (Université de Montpellier) 182

REFLEXIONS CONCLUSIVES/ FINAL THOUGHTS

Environnement : le temps de l’entrepreneur ?

Environment : is it time for entrepreneurs ?

Jean-Pierre Chamoux (Université Paris-Descartes & ICREI) 193

ANNEXES : APPENDICES Max Falque (ICREI) 201

1 – Présentation/Résumé/

Abstract “ Zero to one” de/by P. Thiel 201

2 – PEXE : les éco-entreprises en France

Eco-enterprises in France 211