Volume 39, No.1, Summer 2020
This special issue of PERC Reports honors our 40th anniversary. It reflects on PERC's ideas and the influence they've had on conservation, economics, policy, and environmentalism broadly. But as much as it celebrates the past, it looks toward the future—to new opportunities and challenges, and to creative ways to apply free market environmentalism in the 21st century.
IN THIS ISSUE
Are Property Rights a Solution to Pollution?
Environmental markets have revolutionized the way economists and environmentalists address pollution problems.
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A Different Shade of Green
Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.
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The Rights-Based Revolutions Beneath the Surface
With clearly defined rights to their shared and invisible natural assets, fishermen and irrigators alike reverse a race to the bottom.
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Against Environmental Pessimism
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
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Federal Rules Discourage Cleanup of Abandoned Mines
Better incentives will motivate efforts to rid western landscapes of lingering pollution.
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