This issue of PERC Reports features the work of several past and present fellows and shows how their ideas are informing and shaping some of today’s most pressing environmental issues.
Author Archives: Kat Dwyer
How Markets Adapt to Climate Change
Market responses to emerging threats help cope with an uncertain future.
Trading Water, Saving Water
Water markets help the West cope with supply-side shocks and evolving demands.
Harnessing the Heat Beneath Our Feet
How lessons from the shale oil revolution could help us access geothermal energy—and provide clean power—virtually anywhere on the planet.
When Governments Make Wildfires Worse
Nudging people to dismiss risk by making it cheaper and easier for them to live in fire-prone areas helps no one.
The Irreplaceable Leigh H. Perkins
A tribute to PERC’s longest serving board member.
Snapshots
Examples of free market environmentalism in action.
Hybrids, Humans, and the Future of Conservation
A conversation with ecologist Peter Kareiva.
Cars Get Safer in a ‘Landscape of Fear’
New research shows how wolves are generating large benefits by keeping deer out of headlights.
Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter
Watch PERC’s short film that tells the story of how private lands hold the key to conserving elk migration corridors in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.