Climate, Energy, Water
Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Rules for Managing the Commons
The Earthbound Report
The EarthBound Report reflects on Elinor Ostrom’s research on the commons and list of principles for running the commons.
Reframing Natural Resource Economies
Apr. 20th, 2017, 11AM
This third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on rural innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses. These innovators are rethinking and rebuilding rural economies around principles of sustainability.
Environmental Industries in Maine: Opportunities for Development and Policy Support
This report, "Environmental Industries in Maine: Opportunities for Development and Policy Support" by Carla Dickstein (June 1994), examines Maine's environmental industries. The study, funded by The Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program, aims to inform state policy on supporting these emerging industries as a targeted economic development strategy.
Gilpin County Regional Planning Commission Resident Recreation and Parks Survey
This report, presents the findings of a resident recreation and parks survey conducted in February 1993 for Black Hawk, Central City, and Gilpin County, Colorado. The study was a cooperative effort between the Regional Planning Commission, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and The Aspen Institute.
Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin
This report, titled "Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin," examines the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the frozen potato products industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon.
A Common Bond: Issues and Responses in South Carolina’s Coastal Tourism Development
This paper represents effort by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation to bring issues in coastal tourism in South Carolina into focus.
Best Practices: New Partnerships for Industrial Efficiency
Report presents four of the most progressive industrial energy-efficiency programs in order to provide insight for future programs.
An Analysis of Rural Wastewater Facility Financing
Report is an effort to clarify the wastewater facility needs of rural and rural poor communities to assess the outlook for addressing these needs in light of changing environmental regulations.
What Next for Sustainable Agriculture?
Paper considers issues that sustainable agriculture is expected to face as it moves on from an abstract concept to a more transformative tool of agricultural system.
What Next for Sutainable Agriculture
This report, "What Next for Sustainable Agriculture" by William Lockeretz, prepared for The Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program of The Aspen Institute in December 1989, argues that while sustainable agriculture has gained recognition, the "real work" of developing realistic systems and long-range strategies is just beginning.
Coal and Economic Development in Central Appalachia: A New Framework for Policy,
This report, "Coal and Economic Development in Central Appalachia: A New Framework for Policy," authored by Cynthia L. Duncan, Ph.D., and published in January 1986 by the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED), examines the relationship between coal production and economic development in Central Appalachia, particularly Kentucky.
Industry Perspective on Development: Transcripts of Interviews with Coal Industry Leaders
In this publication, the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED) explores ways in which coal production might contribute more to development in Appalachia.