DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT September 2007 By Alison Berry Abstract Forests evolved over millennia in the presence of fire, a vital ecological processΒfire returns nutrients to the soil and helps seedlings establish. In 1911 the United States Forest Service began to suppress all fires on American forests, resulting in dangerous accumulations of fuels. […]
Brian Yablonskiβs article, βBisonomics,β relates to free market environmentalism (FME) in many ways. First, bison epitomize the tragedy of the commons. As a quote Brian uses from Recreation magazine in 1901 so aptly described: βA wild buffalo is looked on as a small fortune walking around without an owner.β It was not just that […]
The freedom fighter’s legacy lives on
[…] conflicts between the ESA and human activities, in particular military training and operations. The Senate bill is S. 700; the House proposal is H.R. 1422 In another study, which relied on questionnaires rather than raw data on habitat modification, University of Michigan scientists concluded that the 1998 listing of the Prebleβs meadow jumping mouse […]
[…] started by Owen McShane and Wallace Kaufman (PERC welcomes readersβ entries): SOLAR ENERGY: radiation from a centrally located nuclear reactor that provides the primary support for all plant life, and that has recently been converted to electricity in extremely small quantities. DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE(DHMO): an often toxic chemical responsible for many deaths a year; less […]
[…] water may follow a flood-eroded channel into the Atchafalaya, preventing the Corps from stuffing the genie back into the bottle. The mortal threats are avoidable, but Corps plans perversely encourage people to return to the Lower Mississippi Valley rather than to remain where they found shelter following Hurricane Katrina. Caution: Tectonic Plates at Play […]
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT Environmentalists, politicians, and scholars express concern about a βrace to the bottomβ in environmental policy. They fear that competition between countries (or states or cities) for firms and investment may lead to excessively lax environmental standards. Yet economic theory indicates that a race to the bottom in environmental policy […]
A guide on restoring instream flows through voluntary water markets.
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.
[…] property rights within a society actually changes peopleβs beliefs, to make them much more favorably disposed to the workings of a free market. Di Tella et al. study the formation of beliefs in a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. More than 20 years ago, hundreds of families occupied an area of […]