Degrees

PhD '95

About

Dr. Yajie Song

Research Scholar & Principal Investigator
Yale University
yajie.song@yale.edu
203-436-4804
Dr. Yajie Song is a research scholar of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, USA. His research stresses urban and social ecosystem studies, natural resource management, and international and development economics. He is also the Executive Director of the Yale-Tsinghua Environment and Sustainable Development Leadership Program (ESDLP), an adjunct senior research scholar of Tsinghua University and an adjunct professor of Lanzhou University, China. Dr. Song, with his colleagues at Yale and in China, initiated the Yale “Special Project for Administrators and Researchers from Key-institutions (SPARK) Project”, the Yale “Sustainable Development Leadership Program (SDLP)”, the Yale-Shanghai Jiaotong University “Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Seminar” and the China’s “Western Region Sustainable Leadership Development (WSDLP)” with Lanzhou University. He is also a founding resource member of the UNEP-Tongji Leadership Program for Environment and Sustainable Development in 2002. Dr. Song is Vice President of International Fund of China’s Environment (IFCE), and co-fonder and President of the Global Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development (GIESD) Inc., both are environmental NGO headquartered in the United States. He is member of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and American Economist Association (AEA). Dr. Song’s current research and development activities at Yale University and in China include the “Collaborative Urban Environmental Crisis Management (UECM) Research”, the “Share-holding Integrated Forestry Tenures (SHIFT) System Studies”, and the Yale-Tsinghua ESDLP research, training and development. He has served as an advisor to the United Nation Development Program (UNDP), the World Bank, the “China Urban Development Report (CUDR)” and other Chinese and international organizations.