02/06/2017
The U.S. Forest Service targets cooperative landowner in Montana.
Kristen Byrne
01/27/2017
PERC is recruiting students for our summer colloquium; held June 12-17 in Bozeman, Montana. The deadline for all application materials is March 13.
Daniel Benjamin
01/01/2017
The EPA's past efforts to limit ozone emissions backfired. Will its new regulations actually work this time?
Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
01/01/2017
The historical record offers considerable insight into the adaptability of agriculture to climatic challenges.
James G. Workman
12/30/2016
Informal tenure and rights-based fishing in nearshore waters offer a more positive outcome to the no-longer-tragic “commons” of the ocean.
Kristen Byrne
12/19/2016
As the centennial celebration for our national parks comes to an end, not all is right within our parks.
Shawn Regan
12/14/2016
This special issue of PERC Reports explores how markets can help us adapt to climate change now and in the future.
Tate Watkins
11/13/2016
A measure to curb violence from conflict minerals has caused militias to simply expand their looting.
Shawn Regan, James Huffman, Jonathan Adler, Mark Pennington, Linus Blomqvist, R. David Simpson, Robert K. Fleck, F. Andrew Hanssen, Gregg Simonds
10/20/2016
A new volume aims to foster an engaging discussion about the future of environmental policy in this human-dominated era.
Dean Lueck, Jonathan Yoder
07/21/2016
In this PERC Policy Series essay, Dean Lueck and Jonathan Yoder use economics to examine wildfire management and current wildfire policy debates.












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