Natural Resource Econ

If you have been paying attention to the news, you haven't escaped the recent story about an emerging contaminant being discovered in th...

We can create zoning laws that forbid certain uses of land. Another option is to pay them to preserve. Text below is an updated re-post :...

A few weeks ago the Dean of the Cameron School of Business at UNCW, Dr. Robert Burrus, asked me to write a blog post for the Greater Wilming...

Below are links to a great series of videos from Conservation Strategy Fund covering this week's topics: Valuation of Ecosystem Servi...

Starting on June 1, grocery stores in my home-away-from-home will charge a 15-cent fee for the use of plastic grocery bags . This initiative...

Greetings class.  Apologies for the delay in posting. Now that we have several days of study under our belts, I'm curious to know what...

As our course wraps up, I'm curious to know which topics you enjoyed the most and the least. Which topics you'd would have like to s...

Here is a cool story from ScienceDaily on the benefits of networking between commercial tuna fishers. Read the full article here from Pro...

Here is a story about a the ecosystem service values of "street trees" in California. Here is the link to the full article , pub...

Re-post : One of the things we learn in natural resource economics is to look at problems in terms of their costs and benefits.  By askin...