Peer Reviewed Research

Contexts

2015

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines conservation banks that price the priceless and change how we protect natural resources.

Enviromental Planning E Nature and Space

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea develops a novel analytical framework for explaining why this kind of environmental market-making may or may not be successful in different contexts.

The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Protection via Commodification?

Culture, Practice & Europeanization

2019

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea shows that market-oriented schemes like the EU ETS are better characterized as Polanyian countermovements that are, in fact, helping to “re-embed” the European economy in more ecologically sustainable relationships with nature.

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

2020

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea describes three potential baselines for assessing the nature and impact of Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and (in)action on science, science policy, and politics.

The Eco-Munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

2023

Assistant Professor Christopher Rea examines the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and seeks to understand how this relationship is reproduced.

The Environmental State: Nature and the Politics of Environmental Protection

Sociological Theory

2023

Christopher Rea defines the environmental state and theorizes two structuring forces central to its provision of environmental welfare.

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

2006

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the impact of casino gambling in and around Illinois on charitable gambling in that state.

Economics Bulletin

2008

Associate Professor Jim Landers estimates the price elasticity of demand for casino gaming.

National Tax Journal

2014

This article, published in the National Tax Journal, examines California's recent decision to discontinue tax increment financing (TIF) after six decades of use has triggered a re-examination of its broader use.

The Responsiveness of Casino Revenue to the Casino Tax Rate

Public Budgeting & Finance

2016

Associate Professor Jim Landers examines the tax base elasticity of the regulated casino industry in Illinois to help estimate state-level revenue impacts of casino tax rate changes.