[…] Bering Sea. Today, many fisheries have adopted “catch shares,” a program that gives fishermen ownership in the resource. With individual tradeable quotas, they have become better stewards of the fishery and learned to manage their shares for a productive and sustainable future. Once a skeptic, Mark became an advocate of catch shares and explains […]
[…] are learning more and more about the characteristics of such systems. We now know it’s dangerous and often counter productive to invest in value chain improvements without reliable property rights, but we also know that if property rights are established a variety of gains are possible. In addition, we know that one size does […]
As part of a PERC workshop, “Tackling the Global Fisheries Challenge,” Fisheries Specialist for the World Bank, Michael Arbuckle discusses rights-based fisheries reform in developing country fisheries.
[…] world. So, just as Christians are called to treat our human neighbors with respect and love, we must also learn to respect and love the animals, the plants, the ecosystem, and the earth God made. Some Christians would call this stewardship, emphasizing that humans have a special responsibility to be the caretakers of other […]
As part of PERC’s Lone Mountain Forum, “Reconciling Economics and Ecology,” Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo discuss their new book The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mysteries of Easter Island. The bottom line: local problems call for local solutions.
[…] Report for nearly two decades from 1985 to 2003. He is the author of Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner City Schools and the New Paternalism, a two-year study of six high-performing inner-city secondary schools and their successful educational models. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Atlantic, New Republic, […]
[…] called for by the great conservationist Aldo Leopold, private lands become an even more important provider of fish and wildlife habitat. Because the fish and wildlife can freely migrate off private lands, the provision of habitat on private lands generates a public good that costs the public nothing. Landowners who improve habitat and thereby […]
Today I am at Duke to participate in a conference on planetreg.com/e8318418197415″>“Conservative Visions of Our Environmental Future,” sponsored by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Nicholas School for the Environment, Duke Federalist Society, Duke College Republicans and the Energy & Enterprise Initiative. The conference is being live streamed […]
[…] New Zealand. Creating these rights would offer both commercial and customary ocean users a market to resolve conflict and promote more efficient uses of resources. This special issue of PERC Reports is made possible by the generous support of the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust. PERC is continually grateful for their investment in tribal issues and free market solutions.
At a time when there’s a spotlight on America’s richest 1%, a look at the country’s 310 Indian reservations—where many of America’s poorest 1% live—can be more enlightening.