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Encumbering harvest rights to protect marine environments:
By Robert T. Deacon and Dominc P. Parker Abstract We adapt the concept of a conservation easement to a marine environment and explore its use to achieve conservation goals. Although marine environments generally are not owned, those who use them for commercial fishing often are regulated. These regulations grant harvesters rights to use marine environmentsContinue reading “Encumbering harvest rights to protect marine environments:”
Environmental Justice: Opportunities Through Markets
This paper summarizes the state of the academic literature on the implications of environmental justice.
The Carbon Market
Markets fluctuate. In the past year, I have ridden a market roller coaster in an environmental arena that has seen high peaks, which led to my dream job, and low valleys, which put me among the unemployed.
A Utah Desert’s Unlikely Gem
The Mojave Desert in southwest Utah is desolate and dry, until Highway 18 takes you across a canyon that is overflowing with lush greenery, sheer rock walls, and gin-clear springs.
Gauchos go in style
In the shanty towns of Buenos Aires and other impoverished communities, many children go barefoot. Blake Mycoskie changed that paradigm with the creation of a new business – Toms shoes. Now, children wearing bright-colored canvas shoes can be found on four continents.
A tsunami lesson
The devastation wrought by the tsunami that struck Sri Lanka in 2004 still exists.
Sunny Californ-I-A
California utility companies are investing heavily in solar power. The utilities, along with many industry experts, expect the tax breaks for solar producers will make the cost of solar energy competitive with power from coal and natural gas by 2016 when the credits expire.
Tree-free paper
As paper overflows wastebaskets and flutters from dumpsters in office parks, many people have rallied to the cry for a paperless office to save trees.
Markets for Biodiversity
The Malua Wildlife Habitat Conservation Bank (Malua BioBank ) recently was launched in Malaysia by a forestry investment management firm that is at the forefront of developing and commercializing environmental products.