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 | | P. Lynn Scarlett | | Visiting Scholar and Co-Director, Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth | |
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PROFILE |
Lynn Scarlett has extensive experience in both government and in academia on issues related to effective stewardship of land, water, and wildlife resources. As Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2005 to 2009, she had broad responsibilities for federal land management, wetlands, and ecosystem oversight.
Scarlett is co-director of RFF's Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth and was Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Interior Department from 2005 to 2009, a post she took on after four years as the Department's Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. She was named acting secretary of the Department for two months in 2006, and chaired the Department’s Climate Change Task Force.
From 1982 through 2001, she held a variety of positions at the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation. After leaving government, she was an independent consultant with the Environmental Defense Fund on issues pertaining to climate, ecosystem services, and stewardship of open lands.
She is a member of the national Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests and was chair of the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council. She serves on the boards of the American Hiking Society and the Continental Divide Trail Alliance and is a trustee emeritus of the Udall Foundation.
To learn more about Scarlett’s work, you can also visit her personal website. |
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| Featured Publications | | Inside RFF | | Jintao Xu, Karen L. Palmer, Sheila M. Olmstead, Richard D. Morgenstern, Allen Blackman, Juha V. Siikamäki, Timothy J. Brennan, P. Lynn Scarlett, James N. Sanchirico, Yusuke Kuwayama , Antung Anthony Liu, C. Boyden Gray | | Resources | 2013 (182) | | | | Goings On | | James Smith, Anthony Paul, Carolyn Fischer, James W. Boyd, Elisheba Beia Spiller, Sheila M. Olmstead, Molly K. Macauley, Phil Sharp, Carolyn Kousky, Raymond J. Kopp, Dallas Burtraw, Alan J. Krupnick, Yusuke Kuwayama , P. Lynn Scarlett, Karen L. Palmer | | Resources | 2012 (181) | | | | Managing Water through Innovative Collaboration | | P. Lynn Scarlett | | Resources | 2012 (181) | | | | Managing Water: Governance Innovations to Enhance Coordination | | P. Lynn Scarlett | | Issue Brief 12-04 | May 2012 | | | | Ecosystem Services: Quantification, Policy Applications, and Current Federal Capabilities | | P. Lynn Scarlett, James W. Boyd | | RFF Discussion Paper 11-13 | March 2011 | | | | Resources Magazine | | Joseph E. Aldy, John W. Anderson, Lynann Butkiewicz, Mark A Cohen, Roger M. Cooke, Arthur G. Fraas, Madeline Gottlieb, Kristin Hayes, Carolyn Kousky, Joshua Linn, Molly K. Macauley, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris, Timothy Murphy, Nigel Purvis, Leslie Richardson, Nathan Richardson, Heather L. Ross, P. Lynn Scarlett, Adam Stern, Andrew R Stevenson | | Resources | Winter/Spring 2011 (177) | | | | Managing Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks: A Closer Look at how Three Federal Agencies Respond | | P. Lynn Scarlett, Arthur G. Fraas, Richard D. Morgenstern, Timothy Murphy | | Resources | Winter/Spring 2011 (177) | | | | Risk Management Practices: Cross-Agency Comparisons with Minerals Management Service | | P. Lynn Scarlett, Igor Linkov, Carolyn Kousky | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-67 | January 2011 | | | | Managing Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks | | P. Lynn Scarlett, Arthur G. Fraas, Richard D. Morgenstern, Timothy Murphy | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-64 | January 2011 | | | | Reshaping the Endangered Species Act: A Holistic Approach Needed? | | P. Lynn Scarlett | | Issue Brief 10-15 | June 2010 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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