As the premier research institute for studying the application of property rights and markets, PERC’s workshop series advance the ideas of free market environmentalism (FME) by exposing more scholars, policy makers, and environmentalists to FME. The workshop series also serves as a means of finding new applications of property rights and markets to environmental issues
Current Workshops
 | LEC-PERC Workshop on Environmental Economics for Law Professors October 2-6, 2013 This workshop will bring together law professors from across the country for a three-day event designed to teach the basic principles of economics and how to apply those principles to a variety of topics taught in environmental, natural resource, and property law courses. |
Past Workshops
| Tackling the Global Fisheries Challenge November 14-15, 2012 For this workshop, contributors and participants step back and consider the governance framework and challenges of these fisheries. Learn More > |
Founded 30 years ago in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the nation’s oldest and largest institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets.
PERC’s publications, each designed to resonate with specific groups, move ideas generated at PERC to broader audiences.
Research is at the heart of PERC's work, with a focus on the question: What is the link between economic growth and environmental quality?
The goal of PERC’s programs is to fully realize the vision of establishing “PERC University,” where scholars, students, policy makers, and others convene to expand the applications of free market environmentalism.
PERC's fellowships share a common goal of exposing new scholars, students, journalists, and policy makers to free market environmentalism, as well as enable scholars already familiar with FME to explore new applications.
PERC continues to publish and present a broad range of research and discussion through podcasts, videos, and other multimedia channels.