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What does PERC do?
PERC scholars provide the intellectual capital that fuels our approach to environmental problems and how to solve them. It is possible to avoid more regulation, government bureaucracy, and financial waste, and, instead, solve environmental problems in a cooperative and collegial manner. Markets and property rights can show us the way. PERC’s goal is to reach the broadest possible audience, including government officials, environmentalists, opinion makers, policy experts, grassroots environmentalists, entrepreneurs, scholars, and students. PERC’s ideas can be a beacon that leads us to a better environment using a better process. This is what PERC does:
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Research and Policy Analysis - Original research by PERC scholars and fellows leads to new policies and approaches for applying free market environmentalism to a wide variety of natural resource issues. Current topics of research include water marketing, ecosystem services, conservation easements, Native American institutions, wildlife habitat management, fisheries preservation, environmental entrepreneurship, public lands management, timber,and the shifting relationship between resource extraction and resource protection.
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Outreach - PERC's research is widely distributed to policy makers, congressional staff members, journalists, business executives, academics, and opinion leaders. In this way, it can be incorporated into the thinking and planning that goes into policy formation. It also serves to define a new way of thinking about how to solve environmental problems. Outreach takes the form of a quarterly magazine, books, articles, and policy papers, email alerts, web sites, internet publications, social media including Facebook and Twitter, the PERColator--the PERC blog, videos, podcasts, and a stimulating array of conferences, workshops, speaking engagements, expert testimony, and fellowships, as well as several events specifically for journalists.
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Applied Programs - PERC’s Applied Programs help conservationists and resource managers apply FME ideas to solve on-the-ground conservation problems. This area focuses on applied programs for resource managers and environmental leaders. Resource managers include a broad range of people who deal directly with land, water, wildlife, and air resources. Typically they are individuals who have a direct stake or say in how natural resources are used and are interested in exploring ways of increasing the value of those assets.The Enviropreneur Institute has a 10-year history of providng business training to aid individuals in creating businesses that can broker deals with resource owners.
Programs
As PERC has grown over the past 30 years, so too have the number and range of programs that we are able to offer. Some programs are open to the public and others are limited in size and designed for particular groups, such as conservation professionals or professors. Many, but not all of the in-residence programs include a stipend, room and board, and travel expenses or at least some of these amenities. These require applications, and the entire process can be completed online.
To give you an idea of the wealth of PERC programs see the list below.
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Scholarly Forums
Workshop Series on Markets, Property Rights and the Environment
Lone Mountain Forum
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Workshop series on Property Rights, Markets and the Environment
Professionals from varied fields present and discuss papers on selected topics, including fisheries management, evolving western institutions, markets for ecosystem services.
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Roe Legal Outreach and Fellowship Program
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Visiting Scholars Program
Julian Simon Fellowship
Lone Mountain Fellowship
Graduate Fellowship
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Colloquium for Undergraduates and Graduates on "Free Market Environmentalism and the Institutions of Liberty" co-sponsored with the Liberty Fund
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Liberty Fund Collquia
Colloquium for Enviropreneurs 1
Colloquium for Enviropreneurs 2
Colloquium on FME for Philanthropy Roundtable professionals
Colloquium on application of FME principles to Native American issues
Colloquium for Business and Media professionals
- Evening with PERC
