Energy & Land Markets
Working Papers
Capturing the Fiscal Benefits of Carbon Sequestration
Scarlett Forest, Maryam Lakjaa, Bryan Leonard, Tara Righetti
Conditionally Accepted, Colorado Environmental Law Review
The Political Economy of “Non-Use” Rights for Conserving Natural Resources
Joshua Abbott, Christopher Costello, Bryan Leonard
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Pricing the Opportunity Cost of Conservation
Dan Kaffine, Bryan Leonard
Published & Accepted Articles
Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities
Dominic Parker, Sarah Johnston, Bryan Leonard, Daniel Stewart, Justin Winikoff
Nature Energy, 2024
Media Coverage (14)
- Nature Energy: “Refining Native American Clean-Energy Opportunities” (News & Views)
- Nature Energy: “Retrospective on Research in 2024” (highlighted)
- Wisconsin Public Radio: “Study Finds Streamlining Energy Regulations Could Ease Poverty on Tribal Lands”
- MinnPost: “Why Aren’t Tribal Nations Installing More Green Energy? Blame ‘White Tape’”
- Corporate Knights: “Bureaucratic ‘White Tape’ Is Hampering Green Energy Projects on Indigenous Reservations”
- Reason: “Many Native Americans Struggle with Poverty. Easing Energy Regulations Could Help.”
- Tribal Business News: “Q+A: Professor Dominic Parker on Why Tribal Lands’ Renewable Potential Remains Untapped”
- Phys.org: “Streamlining Energy Regulations on Native American Reservations Could Help Alleviate Poverty”
- UW-Madison News
- Eurasia Review
- The Daily Cardinal
- PERC
- UW-Madison AAE Department
- LandApp: “Renewable Energy Development on Tribal Lands”
Ownership Fragmentation and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from the Bakken
Bryan Leonard, Dominic Parker
Economic Journal, 2021
Media Coverage (1)
Allow “Non-Use” Rights to Conserve Natural Resources
Bryan Leonard, Shawn Regan, Christopher Costello, Suzi Kerr, Dominic P. Parker, Andrew Plantinga, James Salzman, V. Kerry Smith, Temple Stoellinger
Science, 373(6558), 2021
Media Coverage (12)
- E&E News / POLITICO: “Could ‘Non-Use’ Rights Boost Conservation Lands?”
- High Country News: “Conservation Groups Should Be Able to Lease Land to Protect It”
- PolicyEd / Hoover Institution: “Nonuse Rights: An Innovative Way to Conserve Natural Resources” (video)
- Legal Planet: “Conservation Should Be Allowed to Pay Its Own Way on Public Lands”
- The Regulatory Review (Penn Law): “The Perils of Use-It-or-Lose-It Public Lands Policy”
- Phys.org
- Newswise / ASU: “Conservation Challenges on Public Land”
- emLab (UCSB)
- PERC: “PERC Research in Science Magazine”
- Science (response letter): “Environmental ‘Nonuse Rights’ Warrant Caution”
- The Smokey Wire
- BioCrick News Center
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources
Bryan Leonard, Shawn Regan
Natural Resources Journal, 59(1), 2019