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The Sky’s Not Falling: Why it’s Okay to Chill About Global Warming

Written especially for children ages 8 to 12, this book provides them the straight scoop about global warming – and the potentially devastating human and economic consequences of politically motivated responses to it.

Saving Our Streams: Harnessing Water Markets

A guide on restoring instream flows through voluntary water markets.

Do Profits Promote Pollution? The Myth of the Environmental Race to the Bottom

Environmentalists, politicians, and scholars express concern about a "race to the bottom" in environmental policy. Yet economic theory indicates that a race to the bottom in environmental policy is highly unlikely, and there is little evidence that such races have, in fact, occurred.

Trading Forest Carbon: A Panacea or Pipe Dream to Address Climate Change?

Irrespective of the uncertainties surrounding the causes of climate change, the United States is poised to join the rest of the developed world in a fight against rising carbon dioxide levels.

Owens Valley Revisited: A Reassessment of the West’s First Great Water Transfer

Insights to guide the ongoing conversation about water politics and the future thereof.

Letters to the Editor

Ideas travel far and fast I read with interest, as usual, the Spring edition of PERC Reports, I remember the book very well, and not only that, it seems to me that we may have one of the first quotations of the book in an article in Spanish. Together with Alberto Benegas Lynch we bothContinue reading “Letters to the Editor”

Buy That Fish A Drink

Water marketing for environmental flows gains momentum

Figntin’ or Drinkin’

Not surprisingly, global warming is getting the blame for drought conditions in many parts of the American West. For example, in the January 31, 2003, issue of Science, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) reported that recent droughts in the West are caused at least partly by global warming-induced rises in western PacificContinue reading “Figntin’ or Drinkin’”