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Property rights and western United States water markets
By Zacahry Donohew
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:”
Warming up to water markets
The article excerpt below is from the Cato Institute’s Regulation magazine. Author Jonathan Adler is a former Julian Simon Fellow at PERC and Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. He argues in favor of water markets as the most efficient and environmentally sound approach to water scarcity as climate change exacerbates an already direContinue reading “Warming up to water markets”
Economic development lessons from and for North American Indian economies
By Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker Abstract [Full PDF] This paper reviews the literature on economic development as it relates to indigenous people in the United States and Canada, and focuses on how institutions affect economic development of reservation and reserve economies. Evidence shows that strong property rights to reservation and reserve landContinue reading “Economic development lessons from and for North American Indian economies”
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.