Common Resources
A blog that offers timely analysis and commentary about pressing environmental and energy issues.
Common Resources Archive
How Smoking-Cessation Product Ads Can Help Meet Public Health Goals
Jan. 14, 2008
Why We Need to Focus on Global Public Goods
Jan. 7, 2008
Which is Best: Emissions Taxes or Emissions Trading?
Dec. 24, 2007
What do the Damages Caused by U.S. Air Pollution Cost?
Dec. 17, 2007
Using the Price System to Reduce Airport Congestion
Dec. 10, 2007
Controlling Automobile Air Pollution
Dec. 3, 2007
Trash Talk
Dec. 3, 2007
Congestion Pricing: Lessons from London
Nov. 26, 2007
A New Chapter in the History of Malaria Control
Nov. 19, 2007
How People Feel, Here and in China, about Reducing Mortality Risks
Nov. 12, 2007
The Cost of Protecting Oil in the Persian Gulf
Nov. 5, 2007
Does the Federal Government Spend too Much for Highways?
Oct. 29, 2007
The Political Economy of Addressing Overfishing in U.S. Waters
Oct. 22, 2007
What Can Policymakers Learn from Experimental Economics?
Oct. 15, 2007
Green Cities and Economic Development
Oct. 8, 2007
Celebrating John Krutilla
Oct. 3, 2007
Reconsidering “Conservation Reconsidered”: A 40-Year Legacy
Oct. 3, 2007
The Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone: Mess, Problem or Puzzle?
Oct. 1, 2007
Designing the Next International Climate Agreement
Sept. 21, 2007
Should Automobile Fuel Economy Standards be Increased?
Sept. 17, 2007
What Are the Biggest Environmental Challenges Facing the United States?
Sept. 7, 2007
Mortality Risk Valuation and Age
Aug. 1, 2007
Putting a Value on Nature’s Services
June 18, 2007
Mending Our Food Safety Net
June 1, 2007