It is appropriate that Elouise Cobell be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it would be better yet if the federal government would grant all Native Americans the freedom suggested by the award’s title – especially when it comes to energy development.
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How Dodd-Frank Led to More Mayhem in Africa
A measure to curb violence from conflict minerals has caused militias to simply expand their looting.
Why We Fight over Western Lands
Federal land policies encourage conflict instead of negotiation.
How Humans Spare Nature
If decoupling trends continue, it is possible that human impacts on the environment will peak and decline this century, even as the global population approaches 10 billion
Ecosystem Services: What are the Public Policy Implications?
Does the ecosystem services paradigm mistakenly presume that the best way to conserve nature is to use it for its goods and services?
Sailing the Sagebrush Sea
A cattle rancher surveys his land, gazing across a vast expanse of the western range. The land surges and rolls, lifting sharply in waves of stone, and receding softly onto the open plains. Before him is a living sea—a Sagebrush Sea, as vast and as variable as any ocean.
Dynamic Environmentalism and Adaptive Management: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities
Accounting for dynamic nature requires revisiting the underpinnings of environmental law and management.
Ecological Dynamism, Economic Dynamism, and Co-evolution: Implications for Urban Land Use Planning
The implications of a dynamic, co-evolutionary perspective for the institutional management of the relationship between cities and ecology.
Environmental Policy for the Anthropocene: Information, Incentives, and Effective Institutions
Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. Even without knowing what environmental changes the Anthropocene will bring, we can consider what types of institutions will support effective policy in response to those environmental changes. In this chapter, we look to the public economics literature to see what itContinue reading “Environmental Policy for the Anthropocene: Information, Incentives, and Effective Institutions”
Designing Institutions for the Anthropocene
Originally published in Environmental Policy in the Anthropocene (PERC, 2016). Download this full chapter here. Writing in 1990, Daniel Botkin observed that since the beginning of the modern environmental movement in the 1960s, a core mission of environmental policymakers has been the restoration of the balance of nature. The laws and regulations intended to achieveContinue reading “Designing Institutions for the Anthropocene”