NON-GOVERNMENT/NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
type: Concept

RFF
type: Concept
in scheme: providers
definition: As the premier independent institute dedicated exclusively to analyzing environmental, energy, and natural resource topics, Resources for the Future 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. [Summary provided by the Resource for the Future.]