NatuRE Policy Lab

Lab member ARE Ph.D. candidate Pierce Donovan, Professor Michael Springborn and coauthors published a new paper on the cost-effective control of an invasive species in Land Economics. Disastrous outcomes, such as the population collapse of an endangered species ...

Lab member Cameron Birchall presented his research on fishing rights market.  Despite robust evidence that catch share programs reduce the risk of fishery collapse, we do not have similarly robust evidence that catch share programs improve fishery value. Using fishing rights transactions data in New Zealand, ...

Kailin Kroetz, Fellow of Resources for the Future, presented her research on ecosystem-based fisheries management. This work is a collaboration with Matthew Reimer, James Sanchirico, Daniel Lew and Justine Huetteman. Ecosystem-based fisheries management provides a framework for incorporating ecological linkages between fisheries into policymaking. However, relatively little attention has been given to economic linkages between fisheries...

Corey Lang, Associate Professor of Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, University of Rhode Island, presented his research on voting for conservation. Voting is one of the main determinants of public good provision (Fischel 2001) and an important source of data for examining revealed preferences for environmental goods. Dating back to at least Deacon and Shapiro (1975), economists have often used aggregated voting data ...

ARE student Pierce Donovan presented his research on shadow value viability and bycatch management. Efficient management of a bycatch species requires people to know its shadow value, which is hard to measure. With commercially exploited stocks...