Resources for the Future

URL: http://www.rff.org/

As an independent institute dedicated exclusively to analyzing environmental, energy, and natural resource topics, RFF gathers under one roof a unique community of scholars conducting impartial research to enable policymakers to make sound choices.

Since 1952, RFF scholars have been asking—and answering—tough questions, looking over the intellectual horizon, and providing successive generations of policy, business, environmental, and civic leaders with the core tools and fundamental approaches they need to improve environmental policymaking worldwide.

Through a half-century of scholarship, RFF has built a reputation for reasoned analysis of important problems and for developing innovative solutions to environmental challenges. RFF pioneered the research methods that allow for critical analysis of environmental and natural resource policies, enabling researchers to evaluate their true social costs and benefits.

At RFF headquarters in Washington, DC, academic research intersects with policy relevance. And it is at this juncture that RFF makes its unique contribution. Inventing new tools for social science research and developing the intellectual underpinnings of entirely new analytic approaches are at the core of RFF's independent, objective work.

All too often, advocates present facts selectively, scholars speak in impenetrable jargon, and political leaders act without adequately understanding the consequences of their decisions. By virtue of our mission to improve public policy through social science research, RFF is committed to disseminating findings in the clearest voice, to the broadest audience.