This special issue of PERC Reports explores how markets can help us adapt to climate change now and in the future.
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Drought and the Mighty Mississippi
Why financial adaptations could be just as important as physical adaptations to climate change.
How Dodd-Frank Led to More Mayhem in Africa
A measure to curb violence from conflict minerals has caused militias to simply expand their looting.
National Bison Day 2016
This Saturday, November 5th, we celebrate the North American bison for its cultural, ecological, economic, and historical significance.
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.