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| Moving Toward a Common Understanding of Ecosystem Services |
| RFF researchers Jim Boyd and Spencer Banzhaf suggest that standardized environmental accounting units will help decisionmakers better define, measure, and manage ecosystem services. |
| Regulation, Markets, and Choice in Metropolitan Land Use |
| Panelists address the impacts of land use decisions and offer perspectives on the future of planning at the March First Wednesday Seminar. |
| Developments in Nanotechnology |
| Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, RFF Senior Fellow J. Clarence (Terry) Davies cautions that current regulatory structures are unable to manage advances in nanotechnology. |
| Ranking Global Concerns |
| Bjorn Lomborg presents his views on this contentious issue at a recent RFF seminar. |
| Chinas Environmental Problems and Resources for the Future |
| China is quickly becoming a dominant economic force worldwide in the 21st century. Rapid industrialization and social change have raised the standard of living for millions of its people, mainly in the East and Southeastern coastal provinces, who can now afford to buy washing machines, televisions, and, increasingly, cars. But what are the environmental impacts of this unprecedented economic development? |
| Superfund at 25: What Remains to Be Done |
| On its 25th anniversary, Senior Fellow Katherine N. Probst calls for greater transparency in the Superfund program. The EPA should come clean about the likely pace of Superfund cleanup and funding shortfalls and take a hard look at current activities and spending priorities. |
| New from RFF Press |
| The Winter 2006 Catalog is now available for download. |
| The Hungry Giant: China and Minerals |
| University Fellow John Tilton delivers the third annual Hans Landsberg Memorial Lecture. |
| U.S. Oil-Import Dependence: A Sufficient Guide to Energy Security Policy? |
| Senior Fellow Joel Darmstadter examines policies designed to achieve U.S. energy security goals. |
| Senator Jeff Bingaman speaks at RFF co-hosted COP 11/ MOP 1 side event |
| At the UN Climate Conference, Senator Bingaman reiterates his belief in a mandatory, economy-wide policy to limit greenhouse gas emissions. |
| The Debate Over CAFE |
| RFF senior fellow and president Paul Portney discusses automotive fuel economy policy on E&ETV News. |
| Post-Katrina: Getting the Incentives and Priorities Right |
| Senior Fellow Kate Probst and Journalist-in-Residence J.W. Anderson argue that we need to rethink the Federal response to Katrina to make sure the right questions get asked, and the right decisions are made. |
| From SO2 to Greenhouse Gases: Trends and Events Shaping Future Emissions Trading Programs in the U.S. |
| Visiting Scholar Joseph Kruger examines the differences between the existing American program to control sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and proposed greenhouse gas trading programs that use it as a model. |
| Taking Risks on the Space Frontier |
| In the new issue of Resources, Senior Fellow Molly Macauley explores how human risk in space activities should be approached and managed. |
| The Future of Petroleum |
| An Energy 2050 policy briefing explores the policy issues surrounding the United States' continued dependence on petroleum. |
| Barack Obama Suggests Strategies To Secure America's Energy Future |
| Senator Obama proposes the U.S. government partially finance automakers' healthcare costs in exchange for investments in fuel-saving technologies. |
| New from RFF Press |
| The Winter 2006 Catalog is now available for download. |
| The Energy Marathon: What Has Congress Wrought? |
| Visiting Scholar Robert Fri reviews the state of American energy policy in the wake of the new Energy Bill that President Bush signed into law on August 8th. |
| Climate Policy in the U.S. and Japan: Prospects in 2005 and Beyond |
| An RFF and IGES workshop brings U.S. and Japanese experts together to share perspectives and find common ground. |
| Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries |
| In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Fellow Ramanan Laxminarayan and colleagues describe recent trends and the current status of resistance to antimicrobial drugs in developing countries and address measures to counter this problem. |
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