Steven Gaines

• Holly Doremus
• January 13, 2012

Can cap-and-trade break whaling gridlock?

In the current edition of Nature, researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Arizona State propose a market for whale harvest quotas (subscription required). Essentially, they would like to establish a kind of “cap-and-trade” system in permits to hunt whales. Their paper is getting a great deal of attention in the media, both in specialized outlets …

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