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Research is at the heart of PERC's work

The core of PERC's research is understanding why people act the way they do and applying that understanding to environmental issues. This philosophy leads PERC to explore fundamental questions such as: What is the link between economic growth and environmental quality?


Listing of Research Studies

Human Adaptation to Climate Change
Lone Mountain Forum
July 2011

Do federal land programs crowd out private land conservation?
PERC scholars compare the Conservation and Wetland Reserves, both federal programs, with two private land trusts,The Nature Conservancy and the Land Trust Alliance,to determine their influence on each other.
June 2011

The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity
The preliminary results of this research provide robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity among hourly farm workers.
December 2010

Forces Promoting U.S. Wetland and Stream Banking
Todd Ben-Dor, a 2010 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow, examines the U.S. ecosystems services market that requires environmental restoration to offset aquatic resource damages. As the need for mitigation banking increases, he has studied forces affecting this growing market.
November 2010

Contracting for Ecosystem Services
PERC Workshop
This workshop will consider the potential for contracting for ecosystem services by focusing on the transaction costs of such contracting, other impediments to contracting, and public policies that could promote market transactions. Specific focal areas include: water quality and quantity, wildlife habitat, open space, and agricultural pollination services.
November 2010

Common property, information, and cooperation: Commercial fishing in the Bering Sea
This research empirically investigates cooperative behavior in a natural resource extraction industry in which the provision of a public good (bycatch avoidance) in the Alaskan flatfish fishery is essential to the duration of the fishing season, and an information provision mechanism exists to relay information to all individuals.
September 2010 [PDF]

Property Rights, Institutions, and North American Indian Economies
Lone Mountain Forum
PERC has fostered research on property rights in general and on how property rights relate to natural resource use on Native American lands. This forum will focus on “The Role and Institutions of in North American Indian Economies.”
August 2010

New Frontiers in Western Land Institutions
Discussion and Conclusions from Workshop
August 2010

New Frontiers in Western Land Institutions
PERC Workshop Overview
The workshop focuses on using markets as tools for making land management decisions in both the public and private arena. How can federal agencies adopt market based-principles and how can we stimulate new markets for environmental amenities such as open space?
June 2010

New Frontiers in Western Land Institutions
PERC Workshop
A PERC Workshop with scholars presenting papers on on land use conflicts in the West and raising questions about the governing institutions.
April 2010

Environmental Kuznets Curves, Carbon Emissions, and Public Choice
Environmental Kuznets Curves for carbon emissions raise doubts about the feasibility of reducing global carbon emissions..
March 2010 [PDF]

Repeated adjustment of delegated powers and the history of eminent domain
The authors explore the history of eminent domain in the United States—a history characterized by periodic public backlash.
March 2010 [PDF]

National TV Broadcasting and the rise of the regulatory state
The rise of national markets associated with national TV networks led to the expansion of federal social regulation and a simultaneous decline of federal economic regulation.
March 2010

Innovations in Property Rights for Fisheries Management
PERC Workshop
PERC Workshop at UC Santa Barabara presenting research on innovations in property rights management for fisheries. Discussion and papers.
October 2009

Water Markets: Why Not More?
PERC Workshop
At the PERC workshop, scholars presented papers examining why water markets have not developed further than they have and explored how institutional and political barriers might be lowered.
September 2009

South Carolina's Jocassee Gorges
Private Vice or Public Virtue?
August 2002 [PDF]

Cleaning Up Mining Waste
November 2001 [PDF]