PERC Podcasts

As part of PERC's Free Market Environmentalism Workshop, "Financial Contracting, Transaction Costs, and Environmental Amenities," Jonathan Klick of the University of Pennsylvania Law School offers a summary of the conference and closing remarks on the future of environmental finance.

How do public land managers assess wildfire risk? At PERC's 2016 Wildfire Solution Summit, Dave Calkin, a wildfire economist and research forester with the U.S. Forest Service, discussed challenges faced by the fire management community and offered ideas for navigating budgetary constraints and policy restrictions to better manage the firescape. Learn more: perc.org/wildfire

As part of the PERC Lone Mountain Forum, "Reconciling Economics and Ecology," PERC President Terry Anderson sat down with noted ecologist Daniel Botkin to discuss the conference and the need for a dynamic understanding of markets and nature.

As part of PERC's Lone Mountain Forum, "Reconciling Economics and Ecology," PERC Board Member Steven Hayward sits down with author Charles Mann to revisit contemporary understandings of the pre-Columbian world.

PERC Lone Mountain Fellow John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Health at Harvard, presents on “Water in a Changing World.” Professor Briscoe has devoted his career to critical issues relating to water, natural resources, and economic development in developing nations. Briscoe has launched the Harvard Water Security Initiative, which focuses on major challenges facing countries around the world, including the obstacles to providing people with safe drinking water.