This paper identifies the necessary conditions for a successful expansion of private-lands conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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Allow “Nonuse Rights” to Conserve Natural Resources
Allowing such “nonuse rights” to public natural resources would enable markets to advance environmental goals, leading to more stable and less contentious outcomes.
Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National Parks to Fund Cooperative Large-Landscape Conservation
How national park visitors in the United States could help address the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Critical Habitat’s Unique ‘Private Land Problem’
Critical habitat designations that penalize private citizens for essential features found on their land discourage them from maintaining or restoring habitat, benefiting neither property owners nor rare species.
Property in Ecology
A new collection of papers on the role of property rights to ecological resources in environmental protection.
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources
If rights can only be established once a resource is used, then the institutions that govern natural resources will be unable to resolve conflicting use and non-use demands.
Markets and the Environment: Friends or Foes?
The environmental movement will have to rely more on market solutions if we wish to conserve our precious natural resources.
Learning How to Fish
Fisheries around the world are poorly managed. As Jonathan Adler explains in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, property-based management can conserve fisheries and maintain their value for human consumption.
Transaction Costs and Environmental Markets: The Role of Entrepreneurs
As published in Oxford Journal’s “Review of Environmental Economics and Policy,” Terry Anderson and Nick Parker show that entrepreneurs guide the evolution of property rights, which in turn can lower the transaction costs of using markets to solve environmental problems.
Conservative Principles for Environmental Reform
Major environmental policy reform is long overdue. PERC’s Jonathan Adler outlines the foundation of a conservative alternative to the conventional environmental paradigm.