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03/02/2012
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03/02/2012
Israelis and Palestinians are building peace through wastewater treatment.
03/02/2012
Enviropreneurship and land conservation.
Michael `t Sas-Rolfes
11/09/2011
Q: In 1998, you authored a PERC Policy Series called “Who Will Save the Wild Tiger?” What has changed in the world of tigers?
11/09/2011
The evolution of property law in early America
11/09/2011
The impact of bee colony collapse on American agriculture
Matthew Neidell, Joshua Zivin
12/10/2010
The preliminary results of this research provide robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity among hourly farm workers.
Todd Ben-Dor, a 2010 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow, examines the U.S. ecosystems services market that requires environmental restoration to offset aquatic resource damages. As the need for mitigation banking increases, he has studied forces affecting this growing market.
This research empirically investigates cooperative behavior in a natural resource extraction industry in which the provision of a public good (bycatch avoidance) in the Alaskan flatfish fishery is essential to the duration of the fishing season, and an information provision mechanism exists to...
Jody Lipford, Bruce Yandle
03/01/2010
Environmental Kuznets Curves for carbon emissions raise doubts about the feasibility of reducing global carbon emissions..
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