Environmental Markets
Working Papers
Designing Environmental Markets to Address Community Impacts
Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Bryan Leonard, Sara Sutherland
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Scaling Markets to Restore Great Salt Lake
Eric Edwards, Brigham Daniels, Billy Ferguson, Dustin Garrick, Conner Harwood, Paul Milgrom, Sarah Null, Barton Thompson Jr., Andrew Vogt, Bryan Leonard
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The Economics of Contracting for Conservation
Bryan Leonard, Kailin Kroetz
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The Political Economy of “Non-Use” Rights for Conserving Natural Resources
Joshua Abbott, Christopher Costello, Bryan Leonard
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A Coexistence Market for Revealing the “Social Carrying Capacity” of Predators
Jacob Hochard, Temple Stoellinger, Bryan Leonard, Harrison Carter, Todd Cherry, Amy Dickman, David Finnoff, Darragh Hare, Bailey Kirkland, Katherine Lee, Arthur D. Middleton, Steve Newbold, Jennifer Raynor, Jason Shogren
The Community Impacts of Catch Shares in U.S. Fisheries
Bryan Leonard, Joshua Abbott, Leah Shaffer
Mind the Gap: Improving Water Markets with Field-Level Remote Sensing
Katherine Wright, Andrew Ayres, Bryan Leonard
Under Review
Pricing the Opportunity Cost of Conservation
Dan Kaffine, Bryan Leonard
Published & Accepted Articles
Public Playgrounds or Private Trusts? The Future of Recreation on State Trust Lands
Temple Stoellinger, Sam Johnson, Bryan Leonard, Eric C. Atkinson
Environmental Law Reporter, 55: 10294, 2025
State Trust Land Revenue Diversification Through Conservation
Temple Stoellinger, Travis Brammer, Bryan Leonard, Shawn Regan, Jonathan Wood
Utah Law Review, 2025
Media Coverage (7)
- UW News: “UW Experts’ Article on State Trust Lands Wins National Honor”
- Resources Radio (RFF) Podcast: “How State Trust Lands Can Help Conservation Efforts”
- American Bar Association Trends: “Valuing Conservation of State Trust Lands”
- C3 News Magazine: “Unleashing New Potential for State Trust Lands”
- Environmental Law Reporter (ELI)
- PERC: “Diversifying State Trust Land Revenue Through Conservation Uses”
- PERC: Publication feature
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
The Distributional Outcomes of Rights-Based Management in Fisheries
Joshua Abbott, Bryan Leonard, Brian Garber-Yonts
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
Media Coverage (4)
Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National Parks to Fund Cooperative Large Landscape Conservation
Arthur D. Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Harshad Karandikar, Bryan Leonard, Holly Doremus, Claire Kremen
Conservation Science & Practice, 2021
Media Coverage (10)
- Yahoo News: “Private Land Is Being Developed in the West. National Park Tourists Would Pay to Help Stop It”
- Outdoor Life: “National Parks Visitors Are Willing to Pay Extra Fees”
- National Parks Traveler: “Park Visitors Are Willing To Pay More To Support Wildlife”
- Wyoming Public Media: “Researchers Say National Park Visitors Should Help Pay For Conservation”
- WyoFile: “Most Yellowstone, Grand Teton Visitors Support Added Fee for Wildlife Conservation”
- USGS: “Wild About Wildlife: Leveraging Park Visitor Support to Fund Conservation”
- UW News: “UW Research Explores Funding Mechanism for Large-Landscape Conservation”
- Buckrail (Jackson Hole)
- My Big Horn Basin: “New Study Suggests Yellowstone Tourists Pay ‘Conservation Cash’”
- PERC
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources
Bryan Leonard, Shawn Regan
Natural Resources Journal, 59(1), 2019
Expanding Water Markets in the Western United States: Barriers and Lessons from Other Natural Resource Markets
Bryan Leonard, Christopher Costello, Gary D. Libecap
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 13(1): 43, 2019