[…] 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. Saving the white rhino from extinction can be attributed to a change in policy that allowed private ownership of wildlife. Property rights over rhinos changed the […]
[…] book Climatopolis. Kahn is a 2011 PERCΒ Lone Mountain FellowΒ and co-director of PERCβs recent workshop on climate change adaptation. He blogs at Environmental and Urban Economics. We sat down with Kahn last week for a short video interview on how free markets can help us adapt to climate change. For more PERC Q&As, visit theΒ Q&A archives.
[…] knew that to keep the family ranch, he needed to chnage his operations. By recognizing the environmental assets on his ranch and forging partnerships with public and private funders he restored a huge wetland that now flourishes with fish, wilflife and plants. By investing in conservation, he has saved his ranch and increased his income.
Why are ranchers and mineral companies allowed to bid on federal land leases, but the public cannot? If environmentalists could lease the land they want to conserve, taxpayers might see a higher return and also avoid some bitter disputes.
[…] The incoming Obama administration, far less eager than its predecessor to open sensitive federal lands to drilling, was the crucial element in DeChristopherβs success. The lands could easily be reopened for drilling under future administrations. If monkey-wrench activism relies on fortunate shifts in political control, its long-term effectiveness is limited. Hereβs another idea: What […]
[…] it was a natural and publicly accessible stream, their incentive to continue restoration efforts slipped downstreamβ¦ Thatβs because ownership encourages stewardship, says Reed Watson, of the Bozeman-based free-market think tank Property and Environment Research Center, or PERC. We tend to take better care of our own cars than we might of rentals, he adds, […]
[…] they can lead to costly and restrictive government regulations and media biases. Harte and Ehrlich, for example, think the government should have a greater role in family planning and that we should βdemand that media start educating the public every day on the role played by the unsustainable human numbers behind environmental degradation and […]
Free market environmentalism works well for problems pertaining to natural resource allocation, where well-defined property rights solve the problem of excludability.
Q&A and video with PERC Enviropreneur Dave Wager on Tree Ring Pens.
[…] made a donation to the Coral Restoration Foundation so that a coral named βPEI 2011β could be placed into a nursery in the Florida Keys and eventually planted out on the reef to help seed other corals in Florida. While some of the relationships and memories will inevitably fade as the weeks, months, and […]