September 2007By Alison Berry
Articles
PERC's Enviropreneur Camp
Wins Top Prize
for Social Entrepreneurship
East African Standard
March 6, 2007
Applying free market ideas to wildlife conservation
By Joseph Magiri
By Holly Lippke Fretwell and Kimberly Frost
Introduction
Editor's note: In the winter of 1988, Peter J. Hill, a PERC senior fellow and a professor of economics at Wheaton College of Wheaton, Illinois, wrote the following article on markets and morality.
Seattle Post-IntelligencerJune 19, 2006
By Matthew Daly
has lent new momentum to the gloomy view of China's environmental future amidst its headlong rush for economic growth. However, the gloom over China's environment may be overstated.
American Enterprise InstituteDecember 21, 2005
By Steven F. Hayward
PERC has won the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award for the second year in a row. PERC was honored for publication of The Not So Wild, Wild West, a book by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill.
Earth Day is Cause for Celebration: Environmental Trends Mostly Positive
By Steven Hayward
with Michael De Alessi, Holly L. Fretwell,
Brent Haglund, Joel Schwartz,
Exorbitant production costs, pervading stench raise concerns about"green" technology
Environment & Climate News
June 2005
By Greg McConnell
The InsiderSpring 2005
By James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee
Writers on the RangeMarch 29, 2005
By Jon Christensen and Terry Anderson
Business Economics
January 2005
Evidence of good environmental stewardship is more extensive than most economists and executives recognize.
By Jane S. Shaw
Book Review
Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
By Richard Stroup
Cato 2003
Greenwire
November 4, 2004Alex Kaplun
Greenwire reporter
Land Letter
October 28, 2004
By Allison A. Freeman
Land Letter reporter
Case Western Reserve Law Review Fall 2004 Vol. 55:1By Terry L. Anderson
GristJuly 13, 2004
Hoover Digest2004 No.3 Summer
By Terry L. Anderson and Dominic Parker
Hoover Digest2004 No.3 Summer
Cooling the Global Warming Debate:
By Terry L. Anderson
North Carolina State Economist
July/August 2004
Conference Organized by PERC
Klamath Falls, Oregon
June 8, 2004
Summary
From the Pacific Research Institute and
the American Enterprise Institute
Full Text PDF
Fedeal Reserve Bank of Dallas
October 23, 2003
"You can't have a free society without private property."
- Milton Friedman
By Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
Chapter 6 from The Technology of Property Rights
By Gregory B. Christainsen and Brian C. Gothberg
PERC's Conference for Journalists
Emigrant, Montana
October 4, 2003
Friendly Critique
By David Roodman
In this article prepared for the Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment at Lindenwood University, Jane Shaw discusses how advocacy has replaced good science in many school textbooks, and how it can be changed.
President Bush had numerous chances to show that conservative principles include conservation, yet at midterm scores low grades for implementing the tenets of free market environmentalism, which emphasizes establishing incentives a
By James Pinkerton
Excerpted from an article on Tech Central
This essay explains how the well-accepted principles that explain market behavior and underlie prosperity also explain environmental problems and offer ways to solve them.
One of four experts who offer differing opinions on environmental education.
One of four experts who offer differing opinions on environmental education.
One of four experts who offer differing views on environmental education.
One of four experts who offer differing views on environmental education.
Executive Summary
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By Richard L. Stroup and Matthew Brown
President Clinton puts a stop to multiple use on national forests
By Shannon Fitzsimmons
Jonathan Adler
Arlington, Virginia
Ryan Amacher, Ph.D.
Department of Economics
University of Texas, Arlington
By Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
Special to the Hoover Digest
At a young age Chris Corbin was told, "Do what you love." He has been
Update:
By Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker
By Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker
By Jedidiah Brewer and Gary D. Libecap
By Robert T. Deacon and Dominc P. Parker
By Gary D. Libecap
By Bruce Yandle
In the forty years that have passed since oily debris on the banks
By Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu
Executive Summary
PERC Research Director Don Leal has been appointed to serve on an advisor
By Jody Lipford and Bruce Yandle
On ABC's "20/20" with John Stossel, Terry Anderson sugests eating tigers could be the best way to save them.
January 12, 2010
Public Lecture Strathmore Univeristy January 12, 2009
Randal O'Toole
Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
A 30th Anniversary Celebration ofPERC—Property and Environment Research Center
Young scholars from various discipline challenge the PERC founders of free market environmentalism on what works, what could work in the future and how to address large scale problems such as climate change, and also when markets are not the so. They will also discuss situations where markets might not work best or might not work at all.
Paul Schwennesen an Enviropreneur-in-Residence at PERC and a former fellow at the Enviropreneur Institute is one of seven top winners in a global easy contest sponsored by the SEVEN Fund in Cambridge, MA.
The topic was the "morality of profit."
International donors provide funds to build recycling plants in the Ukraine, subsidizing an an inefficient and un sustainable economic activity.
Dog waste is powering a gas light with methane in a Cambridge, MA, dog park.
Charging steep fees to hunt endangered species may provide the funds necessary to save them. The black rhino is an example of a program the is being tried in Africa.
PERC Senior Fellow Randy Simmons and co-authors expand on the Bootleggers and Baptits theory of inefficient government regualtion by addding the political entrepeneur to the mix.
Where water markets are being allowed to work, prices reflect scarcity and trades provide incentives to conserve.
At the annual meeting of the Society for Enviromental Journalists, PERC researcher Holly Fretwell suggested that the national parks would benefit most from earning their own funds from entrance fees rather than depending on politicians to hand over more tax dollars. Meanwhile, the parks continue to deteriorate.
Todd Gartner, a 2007 Enviropreneur Institute alum, describes how economic incentives can be used to connect forests, water, and communities. Working with the World Resources Institute he discusses his work on two pilot projects that are connecting the buyers of ecosystem services with the sellers of the services.
As overfishing depletes marine resources and reduces incomes for fishermen, a new approach giving fishermen a share in their fishery is soving by an environmental and economic problem. Catch-share management with a strong local leader in charge is winning converts around the world.
Government subsidies, overregulation and the consolidation has significantly altered the meat industry, makingit less competitive, loaded wiht paperwork, difficult for small ranchers to survive.
A new drilling technology is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States. This new drilling is expected to raise U.S. production by at least 20 percent over the next five years. And within 10 years, it could help reduce oil imports by more than half.
To protect the bison in Yellowstoe from slaughter when they leave the park seeking winter forage, some private environmental group with an entrepreneurial plan should reward landovers who providing grazing room.
Until American Indians living on Reservations have secure property rights and a stable rule of law, they will remain isloated on islands of poverty in a sea of prosperity.
With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the waterand fFarmers and beer companies find they have mutual interests.
Who really owns water, the matrix of life, and how much water we can own, and should have the right and ability to save and trade water we don’t use with others in our system for a price we voluntarily negotiate?
Regulations requiring greater fuel efficiency in cars and create unintended consequences such as more driving andmore energy use because of the car's fuel efficiency.
Terry Anderson presents the annual Friedrich Wieser lecture at the Prague Conference on Political Economy 2011 to supporters of
the Austrian School of Economics and political economy of freedom.
Promises that green energy will change almost everypart of our lives for the better is an enchanting idea, but it is also a myth.
The West African nation of Liberia has partnered with the European Union in a unique attempt to protect its remaining forests by barcoding every harvestable tree.
The revival of local food and local markets marches under the banner of the left, but its resistance to centralization also appeals to conservatives.
Kenya might make 20 times more money from the Masai Mara Game Reserve, which is just a sixth of Tanzania's Serengeti, but this, reports Special Correspondent WYCLIFFE MUGA, comes at a huge environmental cost .
PERC Enviropreneur alum Dave Wager is helping to restore forests overstocked with trees and making a business by using the wood to make beautiful Tree Ring Pens.
Why are ranchers and mineral companies allowed to bid on federal land leases, but the public cannot? If environmentalists could lease the land they want to conserve, taxpayers might see a higher return and also avoid some bitter disputes.
Jeff Laszlo knew that to keep the family ranch, he needed to chnage his operations. By recognizing the environmental assets on his ranch
and forging partnerships with public and private funders he restored a huge wetland that now flourishes with fish, wilflife and plants. By investing in conservation, he has saved his ranch and increased his income.
MIT Professor Michael Greenstone says that humans will adapt to climate change, with wealthier nations faring better than poorer nations.
One fellow at PERC's 2011 Enviropreneur Institute explored ways to create incentives for oil companies to work with conservation organizations like TNC to plan their projects to avoid sensitive areas and minimize impacts.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted in 1973 and today is viewed as the most powerful environmental law in the nation as well as one of the most controversial.
"Decoupling" the listing decision how the species should be protected how it should be protected could
allow more creative measures tailored the needs ad and circumstances of each species.
Whether a given species is at risk of extinction may be a scientific question, but what to do about it is not. What conservation measures should be adopted to address such threats, and at what cost, are policy
questions, says Jonathan Adler
Given property rights to the wild animals that often damage their crops or even kill them, Namibian farmers now are profiting from tourism and hunting, while poaching has virtually disappeared.
Traffic congestion is a huge problem, but building more roads only compounds the problem. University of Toronto Professor Matt Turner says studies show that mass transit also is not panacea. Perhaps it is time to try the market with congestion pricing.
The U.S. Department of Labor proposes sweeping new regulations to limit child labor. Not all agricultural work is inherently dangerous, and sweeping generalizations will do more harm than good.
Small, struggling, rural communities around the nation are struggling to meet tough EPA water quality standards that would cost them millions of dollars.
Brett Howell, a former PERC Enviropreneur, is exploring how to apply market-based approaches to making coral reef restoration financially sustainable.
PERC Senior Fellow Jonathan Adler writes a series of short blogs on The Atlantic website describing how property rights cant help protect the environment.
Some of our most beautiful and amazing species of fish are at risk for extinction. Here’s how we can save them.
As oil continues to gush from BP's Macondo well and politicians posture, it is time for us to ask why we are drilling in such risky places when there is oil available elsewhere. The answer lies in the mantra NIMBY—"not in my back yard."
The "Skywalk" project could help lift 2,100 tribal members out of poverty, but a legal dispute may have killed the goose that could lay golden eggs. Worse yet, this could stifle investment across Indian Country.
Stream access is a confusing and controversial topic. PERC has waded into the stream access debate to provide a free market environmentalist perspective.
A splendid primer that covers a wide range of questions relating to drinking water including historical and ethical issues.
As America’s energy production reaches record levels, it's time for a new system of public land management that promotes cooperation instead of conflict.
PERC senior fellow Randy Simmons writing on the sequester as an exercise in the Washington Monument strategy.
By Brian Lutz and Martin Doyle -- Our research shows that for the Marcellus Shale significantly less wastewater is generated for every unit of natural gas recovered by hydraulic fracturing than by conventional gas production.
For more than two decades, special interests have persuaded Congress to mandate Americans buy ethanol whether they want to or not. As a result, 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop is now used for ethanol rather than food.
Despite their ecological and economic importance, Florida’s coral reefs are teetering on the verge of collapse. Scientific studies point to the impact of effluent discharges from municipal storm and wastewater treatment facilities along the coast.
In June of 2012, the world mourned the loss of the giant tortoise, Lonesome George. The 100-year-old tortoise lived in the Galapagos and was believed to be the last of his sub-species. George served as an ambassador for endangered species—especially in Ecuador where many groups are working to restore not only tortoise populations throughout the archipelago but also to improve the status of other rare species.
Would the EPA be better run by a bipartisan commission? Reform the agency by politicizing it, says PERC board member Steven Hayward.
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When the wildfires that are burning millions of acres in the West are finally smothered by winter snows, environmentalists undoubtedly will blame climate change. They might look in the mirror instead.
In the Supreme Court of the State of MontanaSupreme Court Case No. 12-0312PUBLIC LANDS ACCESS ASSOCIATION, INC., Petitioner/Appellant,v.
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Protecting the Aberdares ecosystem required keeping the local people from poaching the wildlife, grazing it with livestock, and cutting the indigenous trees for firewood.
The link between natural resources, institutions, and economic prosperity is nowhere more apparent than on American Indian reservations
One of our nations greatest resources, its large western forests, is given over to the care of government. Polluted streams, destroyed homes, and wasted assets are the result, even though the responsibility was clearly in our realm. The solution is to allow the resource to be privately owned, not collectively
When people who live near wild elephants understand how they can benefit economically, they have an incentive to protect the wildlife.
PERC scholars compare the Conservation and Wetland Reserves, both federal programs, with two private land trusts,The Nature Conservancy and the Land Trust Alliance,to determine their influence on each other.
In Montana, enviropreneurs like Chris Corbin are creating a water market by helping owners identify and vaule their water rights and sell them.
PERC Senior Fellow Bruce Yandle orginated the theory of Bootleggers and Baptists in the early 1980s. In essence, two different groups suppor the same, regulations, but benefit from different effects of the regulation. Has anything changed?
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.