Jonathan Yoder is a Distinguished Professor for Sustainable Development, Professor of Economics at Washington State University’s School of Economic Sciences, the Director of the State of Washington Water Research Center, and affiliate faculty at the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health. His research specializations include natural resource and environmental economics, focusing on policy design and impact analysis, law, and contracts. In 2012, he was a PERC Lone Mountain Fellow.
AUDIO: In July 2016, PERC assembled a panel of experts for a public event and podcast series dedicated to examining the politics and economics of wildland fire management. Listen to the podcast series.
AUDIO: What are the economics of wildfire? What policy reforms would foster more efficient fire management? At PERC's 2016 Wildfire Solution Summit, authors Dean Lueck and Jon Yoder share the findings from their policy report Clearing the Smoke from Wildfire Policy: An Economic Perspective.
In this PERC Policy Series essay, Dean Lueck and Jonathan Yoder use economics to examine wildfire management and current wildfire policy debates.