The economists say more frequent use of up-front experiments would result in more effective environmental policymaking in areas ranging from pollution control to timber harvesting across the world.
Environmental regulators and other organizations should do more scientific experimentation to inform natural resource policy, according to an international group of economists that includes University of Wyoming researchers., the economists say more frequent use of up-front experiments would result in more effective environmental policymaking in areas ranging from pollution control to timber harvesting across the world.
The paper was produced by The Teton Group, an initiative led by Professor Todd Cherry, the John S. Bugas Chair in UW's Department of Economics. The prominent group of economists meets every fall in Wyoming to discuss critical ideas that impact environmental policy and economic development.
For example, an environmental agency that wants to learn how best to encourage industry to comply with environmental regulations might -- instead of implementing a single change in auditing practices across all polluting facilities -- randomly vary implementation of two auditing practices and contrast how facilities respond.
"Although environmental actors engage in thousands of informal 'experiments' every year , these are not controlled or designed to test the implicit hypotheses that justify the implementation of current programs or understand how to make these programs more effective," the economists wrote."Formal experimentation in environmental programs is absent because science typically stops when implementation starts.
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