[…] four Cβs vision seeks to advance personal stewardship. Individuals, alone and together, on farms and in factories, in backyards and in neighborhoods, are restoring riverbank habitat, re planting native grasses, and innovating to prevent pollution. These citizen stewards predated our arrival in Washington. We are seeking to nurture their efforts through shifts in how […]
This Policy Series challenges a popular romantic mythβthe idea that Native Americans had little regard for property rights. The experience of Native American salmon fishing off the northwestern coast of the United States and the southwestern coast of Canada refutes this notion.
[…] as trading pollution credits do not automatically spur innovations that further reduce pollution. But thatβs taking a short-term view. Trading reduces the often heavy cost of regulation, freeing up funds for other uses. And the success of the private sector in using its funds to improve the environment is quite impressive. Most analysts recognize […]
[…] law, extent of government corruption, and the risk of appropriation.β He found that higher indexes for the institutional variable led to significant environmental quality improvements. In another study, Madhusudan Bhattarai (2000) found that civil and political liberties, the rule of law, the quality and corruption levels of government, and the security of property rights […]
[…] youβre talking about acid rain, smog, global warming, itβs inconceivable that all the parties concerned could gather together to strike a bargain about automotive technology, land use planning, payments of compensation, etc. Or rather, the only practical way they could do that would be to send representatives empowered to make binding decisions, which sounds […]
[…] irregularities are unique to each whale. For decades, observers have been able to verify a whaleβs identity by comparing pictures taken at different times. This method is reliable, but it requires a clear photograph at each siting; the flipping of a whaleβs tail in the air is too transitory an event for unaided comparison […]
[…] approaches. In New Mexico, an environmental group called the Forest Guardians has outbid ranchers for leases on land near streams. As the new lessee, the group has planted willows and other cover to restore habitat along stream banks. State coffers have benefited from the higher revenues collected on grazing leases. In Utah, the Grand […]
Eight Great Myths of Recycling, by Daniel K. Benjamin, exposes the errors and falsehoods underlying the rhetoric. It clarifies the appropriate role of recycling, based on history and market relationships.
[…] 21stcentury.pdf (cited July 29, 2003). J. Bishop Grewell, a research associate for PERC, is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and author with Clay Landry of Ecological Agrarian (Purdue University Press). This article is based on an unpublished case study that Grewell wrote with Brian Albans and Mike Spagna.
Β Motivated by a love of free-running rivers, environmental activists are arguing for the removal of some of the thousands of dams that dot river systems throughout the United States. Pressure is building to breach-that is, partially deconstruct- dams on the Snake River that prevent salmon from swimming to the ocean. There is even […]