As part of PERC’s Free Market Environmentalism Workshop, “Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities,” Dr. Jonathan Karpoff offers the keynote address highlighting Ronald Coase and environmental finance. Section 3 highlights Ronald Coase’s contributions.
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Patron Saints of the Environmental Movement
As part of PERC’s Free Market Environmentalism Workshop, “Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities,” Dr. Jonathan Karpoff offers the keynote address highlighting Ronald Coase and environmental finance.
In Praise of Forest Service Fire Tactics
Wildfire experts have shown that decades of fire suppression helped create forests unnaturally dense with fuel. Today, the Forest Service is much smarter with its fuel management choices.
An Analysis: Wildfire Management
In the wake of the 2012 Colorado fires, PERC President Terry Anderson and former PERC fellow Sarah Anderson take a look at the motivating forces behind Forest Service fuel management decisions.
The Adaptability of Property Rights
Yet the United States also has a record of making abrupt alterations to property rights (creating losers as well as winners) in the face of new technologies and/or the availability of new resources.
Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities
PERC Conference Center Bozeman Montana July 30 – August 2, 2012 Directed by Dr. Dino Falaschetti Agenda Papers Introduction In 2012 PERC continues its workshop series on “Property Rights, Markets and the Environment.” One of these workshops will focus on Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities to be held July 30–August 2, 2012, at theContinue reading “Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities”
Save Rivers, Destroy Trees
PERC Enviropreneur Institute Alum James Workman discusses the water-wildfire nexus and why we should save rivers and destroy trees.
Saving African Rhinos
AUDIO: In 1900, the southern white rhinoceros was the most endangered of the five rhinoceros species. Less than 20 rhinos remained in a single reserve in South Africa. By 2010, white rhino numbers had climbed to more than 20,000, making it the most common rhino species on the planet.
Does Burning Ivory Save Elephants?
This week marks the 62nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. To coincide with this meeting, the World Wildlife Fund has released a “Wildlife Crime Scorecard” report which lists 23 countries in Asia and Africa that it claims could all do moreContinue reading “Does Burning Ivory Save Elephants?”
Could the Health Care Decision Hobble the Clean Air Act?
Sackett v. EPA was the big environmental case from this past Supreme Court term, but the Court’s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the health care case, could actually turn out to have the larger effect on environmental law. While most commentators on NFIB focused on the Commerce Clause challenge to the individual mandate, the argumentsContinue reading “Could the Health Care Decision Hobble the Clean Air Act?”