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| 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. |
| The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management |
| In a new book from RFF Press, Carol J. Pierce Colfer examines the theory, processes, and early outcomes of a research and management approach called adaptive collaborative management (ACM). |
| Ecosystem Services and Government Accountability: The Need for a New Way of Judging Nature's Value |
| Senior Fellow James Boyd and Fellow Spencer Banzhaf call for the development of a rigorous system to measure ecosystem benefits. |
| Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program |
| RFF Researchers examine the economic consequences of different methods for allocating emissions permits under RGGI, an initiative of nine northeastern states that could eventually serve as a model for a national cap-and-trade program. |
| Flying in the Face of Uncertainty |
| Senior Fellow Molly Macauley reflects on the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
| Scarcity and Growth Revisited |
| This fresh investigation of the RFF classic considers the implications of resource scarcity on economic growth, human well-being, and environmental sustainability in the new millennium. |
| Think Tank Leader's Principled Wisdom Will Be Missed |
| The Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein reflects on the departure of RFF President Paul Portney. |
| Spurring Creativity: A Role for Prizes in Climate Change? |
| In certain circumstances, with proper research and design, prizes offered by public agencies as well as private firms or foundations could induce innovations that reduce greenhouse gases. |
| Directions to Solutions: A Decade of Institutional Controls - What Has Been Accomplished? |
| Senior Fellow Kate Probst reflects on efforts to document and monitor enforcement of institutional controls at Superfund sites. |
| What Do Developers Want? |
| A recent study on private investment in contaminated property by Fellow Kris Wernstedt, Peter B. Meyer of the University of Louisville, and Anna Alberini of the University of Maryland suggests that private developers place a very high value on relief from third party liability. |
| Managing Problems That Won't Go Away |
| The June First Wednesday Seminar explores the pitfalls encountered when applying familiar regulatory tools to issues like Yucca Mountain, cleanup of Department of Energy nuclear production facilities, and Superfund and discusses alternative approaches to policy design. |
| Europe Goes to Market: Opportunities and Challenges with a Trail Blazing Trading System. |
| Visiting Scholar Joe Kruger and Fellow Billy Pizer review the new European Emissons Trading System based on U.S. experience. |
| Making Sense of Proposed Multipollutant Regulations and Legislation |
| RFF researchers assess current multipollutant legislation and the McCain-Lieberman proposal to address climate change.
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| Benefits of Regulating Electricity Pollution Outweigh Costs To New York, Nation |
| RFF Researchers analyze the EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule and the Clean Air Mercury Rule, as well as variations of the policies, to determine how they compare in protecting the environment and public health of the nation in general and New York state in particular. |
| Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cannot Depend on Technology Incentives Alone |
| In testimony submitted to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Senior Fellow Richard Morgenstern urges broad-based policy action on climate change. |
| The Case For Intensity Targets |
| For at least the next two decades greenhouse gases will continue to rise. In a new discussion paper, Fellow Billy Pizer suggests it is necessary to accomodate this rise while putting into place the policies that, tightened over time, are capable of slowing the rise, then stopping it and forcing a decline. |
| Environmental Challenges in Asia |
| Resident Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell testifies before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the U.S. Congress' International Relations Committee. |
| The Making of Environmental Law |
| Richard Lazarus, professor at Georgetown University Law School, discusses the history of and prospects for environmental law at the May RFF First Wednesday Seminar. |
| Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms |
| In this groundbreaking new work from RFF Press, leading scholars in law, economics, and business debate the economic and ethical questions of corporate social responsibility. |
| "I think climate change is really the biggest problem facing the U.S, and in some sense, the biggest problem facing the world." |
| As Earth Day approaches, RFF President and Senior Fellow Paul Portney discusses global environmental struggles with CNN. |
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