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</div><div><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin-bottom: 25px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 25px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; padding-left: 15px; color: rgb(80, 79, 79); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 30px; margin: 0px; font-family: avenir, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">PERC’s Lone Mountain Fellows are an impressive group</h1><div class="by-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; margin-top: 10px;"><ul class="post-authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; float: left; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="post-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 1rem; color: rgb(153, 156, 95); float: left; margin-right: 7px;"><a class="author-link" href="https://www.perc.org/people/laura-huggins/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(153, 156, 95); text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease 0s; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic;">Laura Huggins</a></li></ul><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2011-11-01 06:00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.01) 0px 0px 1px; font-size: 14px; float: left; margin-left: 5px;">November 1, 2011</time></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 640px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; color: rgb(80, 79, 79); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> This special issue is dedicated to PERC’s Lone Mountain Fellows who are as impressive as Lone Mountain (featured on the cover), which towers over PERC at 11,166 feet. Lone Mountain Fellowships offer a unique opportunity for scholars, policymakers, and environmentalists to advance our understanding of the role of markets and property rights in promoting environmental quality. PERC has hosted 52 Lone Mountain Fellows, representing institutions such as Yale and Columbia University and from countries spanning from Australia to Bolivia. This issue of PERC Reports highlights the work of some of these scholars.BRIAN STEED arrived at PERC straight from defending his thesis with Noble Laureate Elinor Ostrom. Here Steed explores green against green. Although many environmentalists favor green energy, they loathe its localized impacts. Rather than accept the tradeoffs inherent in green energy production, some have fought the siting of wind and solar farms based on concerns about their impact on the local environment. Green energy is not the problem, they argue—it should just be done elsewhere. But as Steed points out, the “elsewheres” are limited.Considered one of the top environmental economists in the United States, MATTHEW KAHN recently escaped the southern California summer to enjoy the cooler climate in Montana and to further explore human adaptation to climate change. His recent book Climatopolis has received critical acclaim.University of Toronto economist, MATTHEW TURNER, asks a provocative question: Does building more roads to alleviate traffic create more traffic? Turner’s research, which he furthered at PERC, suggests a fundamental law of road construction—build it and they will come.JEFF BENNETT emerged from the land down under to visit the Big Sky State. With more than 30 years of experience researching, consulting, and teaching in the fields of environmental economics, Bennett has turned toward investigating what he calls “little green lies.”KURT SCHNIER recalls his experience being stuck on an island off Alaska. This circumstance allowed him plenty of time to get to know the local fishermen who encouraged him to think beyond the efficiency gains resulting from rights-based management programs for fisheries.PERC assembles an assortment of scholars knowing that cross fertilization will advance the frontiers of free market environmentalism. Todd Zywicki, professor of Law at George Mason University summed up the Lone Mountain Fellowship well: “An important element of the program is its interdisciplinary focus—by bringing together law professors, economists, and experts in natural resources, PERC promotes exactly the sort of cross-disciplinary exchange that will be necessary to create innovative public policy proposals in the area of property rights, natural resources, and energy policy.”Finally, if you are fed up with the presidential campaign, especially when it comes to new ideas for the environment, don’t miss PERC’s executive director TERRY ANDERSON’S discussion of the need for a Green Tea Party. For more on this campaign visit live-perc-wp.pantheonsite.io/greentea and percolatorblog.org.</div><div>
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</div><div><div class="Bioheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 75px 0px 40px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="mailto:%20linus@thebreakthrough.org" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">linus@thebreakthrough.org</a></div><div class="Biobody" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 62px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="Content" id="38bc7250-aa3a-11e9-aec6-0dd2578e5dd2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Linus is the director of the Conservation and Food & Agriculture programs at the Breakthrough Institute and a co-author of <a href="http://ecomodernism.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">An Ecomodernist Manifesto</a>. Through June 2019, Linus is also a visiting researcher at the University of Tasmania where he is part of a <a href="https://ecological-dynamics.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">team</a> studying drivers of agricultural expansion and forecasting future land-use change. Linus is interested in how technology can help decouple environmental impacts from economic growth, as laid out in his landmark report <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/nature-unbound" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation</a>. His current work focuses on strategies to address the twin challenges of meeting food demand and protecting biodiversity.Linus has published widely in the areas of conservation, agriculture, and environmental policy. He has co-authored seven peer-reviewed papers and two book chapters, covering topics from <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534713000335" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">ecological tipping points</a> to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971732123X" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">livestock systems</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018304045" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">food demand</a>, <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001700" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">ecological footprint accounting</a>, <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/conservation/planetary_boundaries" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">planetary boundaries</a>, <a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198808978.001.0001/oso-9780198808978-chapter-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">ecosystem services</a>, and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439179116300512" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">forecasting methods</a>. (See Google Scholar page <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2rKJVLsAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">here</a>.) He has edited and contributed to Breakthrough’s web series <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/the-future-of-food" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">The Future of Food</a>, and has written blogs and essays on issues ranging from <a href="https://www.perc.org/2016/06/08/how-humans-spare-nature/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">decoupling</a> to <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/food-production-and-wildlife-on-farmland" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">land sparing</a>, <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/is-precision-agriculture-the-way-to-peak-cropland" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">precision agriculture</a>, <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sustainable-aquaculture-fish-farming-by-linus-blomqvist-2018-02" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">aquaculture</a>, <a href="https://ensia.com/voices/feedlots/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">feedlots</a>, and <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/fixing-nitrogen" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">fertilizers</a>.Linus’ work has been featured in publications such as <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2012/06/16/boundary-conditions" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">The Economist</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303901504577460900066999454" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">The Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-modern-agriculture-can-save-the-gorillas-of-virunga/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">Scientific American</a>, <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029445-000-admit-it-we-cant-measure-our-ecological-footprint" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">New Scientist</a>, <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/climate-change-optimism-ecomodernism-new-conservation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">Wired</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/25/george-monbiot-is-wrong-to-suggest-small-farms-are-best-for-humans-and-nature" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: initial;">The Guardian</a>, and many others. He is a former PERC Lone Mountain fellow, and is on the advisory committee of Nature Needs Half.Linus holds an MESc from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he specialized in environmental economics, and a BA in Geography from Cambridge University. Prior to joining Breakthrough Institute in 2011, Linus worked for several conservation organizations including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and BirdLife Europe.Linus’ interest in conservation and wildlife has taken him into the field, with experiences ranging from integrated conservation and development projects in rural Ecuador, raptor migration in the Mediterranean, livelihoods and endangered species conservation in the highlands of Kenya, biological surveys in Mediterranean wetlands, to bird banding on the Baltic Sea island of Öland. Outside of work, Linus has also had the privilege of visiting some of the world’s most spectacular sites for nature and wildlife, including the Brazilian Pantanal, the Galapagos Islands, various corners of the Amazon Basin, the Andes, Serengeti, and Anatolia.Linus was born and raised in Sweden and has been based in the US since 2011. In his free time, he enjoys birding, motorcycling, photography, jazz, and running, although not all at the same time.Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? We’ll Have To, a New Study FindsDecember 5, 2018
The ecologists who think moving to cities will save the planetThe ecologists who think moving to cities will save the planetMay 6, 2018
The Future of Fish FarmingThe Future of Fish FarmingFebruary 26, 2018
Managed Well, Feedlots Can Be the Environmentally and Ethically Smart ChoiceManaged Well, Feedlots Can Be the Environmentally and Ethically Smart ChoiceNovember 21, 2017
Boundary conditionsBoundary conditionsJune 16, 2012
Admit it: we can’t measure our ecological footprintAdmit it: we can’t measure our ecological footprintNovember 20, 2013
How Modern Agriculture Can Save the Gorillas of VirungaHow Modern Agriculture Can Save the Gorillas of VirungaOctober 1, 2015
Forget What You've Heard: Humans Are Not Using More Than 1 PlanetForget What You've Heard: Humans Are Not Using More Than 1 PlanetNovember 7, 2013
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