All Research:
Innovation in Wildlife Management
Free Market Environmentalism for the Birds
How California rice farmers went from air polluters to migratory-bird conservationists.
Save Fish, Establish Property Rights
Where property rights have been made clear, secure, and transferable, overfishing has been reduced.
Mobilizing Markets to Reduce Bycatch in Marine Fisheries
Economists Steve Miller and Robert Deacon examine the management of bycatch in the U.S. West Coast groundfish fishery.
Elk Under Fire
Can protecting elk habitat mitigate conflicts with landowners?
A New Landscape: 8 Ideas for the Interior Department
Eight policy ideas to deliver environmental and economic improvements for the nation’s lands, waters, and other natural resources.
To Protect Endangered Species, Secure Property Rights
How property rights are an effective means for conserving and recovering endangered species.
The Backwards Effect of the Endangered Species Act
Why rewarding, rather than punishing, conservation on private lands could save more species.
Peru’s Small-Scale Fishers
Fisheries are a prime example of a sector in Latin America that is often poorly managed, heavily regulated by government policies, and creates marginal value.
Dominion Over the Unicorn
Informal tenure and rights-based fishing in nearshore waters offer a more positive outcome to the no-longer-tragic “commons” of the ocean.