An alternative idea on how to best spend money to conserve endangered species.
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Use It or Lose It
Sometimes, productive use of land is beneficial for conservation.
Marketing and Media Manager
Do you love hiking, fishing, or just being in the great outdoors? Do you have a passion for connecting with people and want to help equip our team to advance innovative, market-based solutions to the most pressing conservation issues? If so, PERC’s Marketing and Media Manager role may be the right fit for you! TheContinue reading “Marketing and Media Manager”
An Antiquated California Water Law Encourages Political Conflict Rather than Market Transactions
Transition policies should end when they outlive their usefulness.
What Happens When the Government Shuts Down?
The downside to pervasive permitting.
Conservation through Compromise or Conflict
The agreement in the “conservation deal of the century” demonstrates the benefits of pursuing conservation through negotiation.
Detroiters Against Free Trees?
If the Detroit nonprofit offering free trees retained the property rights, they would be seen as less of a liability to Detroit’s residents.
Destabilizing Property Rights with a Canoe Paddle
Outdoor recreation activists can better expand access by amicably negotiating with landowners.
Development Derailed: Railroad Land Grants and Irrigation in the Western United States
An analysis of how uncertain property rights – exogenously generated by railroad land grants – stymied irrigation investment and economic development on the Western frontier.
Environmental Restoration Requires Better Incentives
A property-based approach and incentives top regulation to entice environmentally friendly practices when destruction began years ago.