This Saturday, November 5th, we celebrate the North American bison for its cultural, ecological, economic, and historical significance.
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What’s So Immoral About a Free Market
Thursday, November 3rd at Montana State University: Rancher, author, and professor P.J. Hill will explore different economic systems, examining,the opportunities, limits, and moral implications of different forms of governance.
Walk into Wildfire, The Video
WATCH: In “Walk Into Wildfire,” artists Ethan Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith arranged life-sized recordings from U.S. Forest Service research cameras to give an otherwise unsurvivable point-of-view.
Why We Fight over Western Lands
Federal land policies encourage conflict instead of negotiation.
How Humans Spare Nature
If decoupling trends continue, it is possible that human impacts on the environment will peak and decline this century, even as the global population approaches 10 billion
Ecosystem Services: What are the Public Policy Implications?
Does the ecosystem services paradigm mistakenly presume that the best way to conserve nature is to use it for its goods and services?
Sailing the Sagebrush Sea
A cattle rancher surveys his land, gazing across a vast expanse of the western range. The land surges and rolls, lifting sharply in waves of stone, and receding softly onto the open plains. Before him is a living sea—a Sagebrush Sea, as vast and as variable as any ocean.
Dynamic Environmentalism and Adaptive Management: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities
Accounting for dynamic nature requires revisiting the underpinnings of environmental law and management.
Ecological Dynamism, Economic Dynamism, and Co-evolution: Implications for Urban Land Use Planning
The implications of a dynamic, co-evolutionary perspective for the institutional management of the relationship between cities and ecology.
Environmental Policy for the Anthropocene: Information, Incentives, and Effective Institutions
Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. Even without knowing what environmental changes the Anthropocene will bring, we can consider what types of institutions will support effective policy in response to those environmental changes. In this chapter, we look to the public economics literature to see what itContinue reading “Environmental Policy for the Anthropocene: Information, Incentives, and Effective Institutions”