Global Change Science and Policy
Foundations to Discuss Funding to Combat Climate Change
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, representatives from four leading private foundations will discuss how their organizations have helped fund and create
Doctoral Student's Research Featured on NPR
Jennifer Balch is part of a research team using experimental burns to study the effects of fire in the transitional forests of Brazil.
Environment: Yale, Spring 2007
The Journal of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies - Spring 2007 Issue
Interactive Map: Climate Change and GDP
Professor Robert Mendelsohn's study, "Dynamic Forecasts of the Sectoral Impacts of Climate Change," utilizes results from climate impact analyses to project how future climate scenarios will affect each country in the world. The study has looked at the impacts on agriculture, coasts, energy,...China and the Environment: The Impact of NGOs, Culture and Growth
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect St., New Haven Xiaoyi (Sheri) Liao, the Chinese environmental ambassador to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee and one of China’s best-known environmental activists and journalists, founded and is president of the Global Village of Bejing, a...Thomas Friedman and Addicted to Oil Screening
Thomas Friedman, of the New York Times, will screen his new Discovery documentary "Addicted to Oil." Following the screening, he will lead a discussion of the interwoven issues of oil, the Middle East, and the global environment. This event will be held 4:00-6:00pm in Davies Auditorium, 15...
Program to Train Corporate Directors on Climate Change
Three leading U.S. organizations have announced a unique collaborative effort to educate hundreds of independent corporate board members about the potential liabilities and strategic business opportunities that global climate change can create for companies. The announcement was made at a plenary...Why Climate Change Belongs on the Front Burner in the Business World
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, discusses the emerging importance of climate change to major corporations, investors, shareholders, etc. Video (48 minutes).Video: Eileen Claussen
Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, spoke at the school on the state and national policy response to climate change science. 45 minutes.Seen An Inconvenient Truth — Now What?
Sage Hall Bowers Auditorium 205 Prospect St. New Haven, CT Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, and organizer of Focus the Nation: A Global Warming Educational Initiative (www.focusthenation.org/test.html) Goodstein’s talk is sponsored by the Yale F&ES Project...Galvanizing National Action on Climate Change
Why has the robust and compelling body of climate change science not had a greater impact on action, especially in the United States? From the policy-making level down to personal voting and purchasing decisions, our actions as Americans have not been commensurate with the threat as characterized...
Young Conservationists and the Future of Protected Areas Worldwide
32 pages, 2003 Order a print copy
Protecting Biodiversity
Elizabeth A.Gordon, Oscar E.Franco and Mary L.Tyrrell Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 168 pages, 2005 Order a print copy
Can the Anchor Hold?
Maria Ivanova Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies This new report assesses the performance of UNEP as the mandated anchor insitution for the global environment. Focusing on strenghthening the global environmental governance system, it...
Livability and Smart Growth
Hooper Brooks and Julia Parzen 118 pages, 2006 Order a print copy
Environmental Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
John O.Kakonge Associate Research Scholar 43 pages, 2006 Order a print copy
Inventory and Analysis of Yale University’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Yale Climate Initiative (YCI) team Marco Buttazzoni, Kathleen Campbell, Brandon Carter, Seth Dunn, Trish Eyler, Woon Kwong Liew, Elizabeth Martin, Nalin Sahni and Kate Zyla 106 pages, 2005 Order a print copyClimate Change Project Seeks Participants
Why has the robust and compelling body of climate change science not had a greater impact on action, especially in the United States? Visit the Yale Environment School Project on Climate Change site to find out how to help implement actions from a wide range of domains, from education to...
Americans and Climate Change
By Daniel R. Abbasi With a Foreword by James Gustave Speth In 2005 the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies convened 110 leaders and thinkers in Aspen, Colorado, and asked them to diagnose the reasons for the gap between climate science and action, and to generate recommendations...Global Change Science and Policy
The goal of this focal area is to address issues arising from major environmental changes that are impacting a substantial portion of the world. The faculty in this focal area are particularly interested in the arena of climate change science and policy and seek to generate new scientific...Study: Not Enough Metals in Earth to Meet Global Demand
New Haven, Conn. – Researchers studying supplies of copper, zinc and other metals have determined that these finite resources, even if recycled, may not meet the needs of the global population forever, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Climate Change and Development
Climate change: An overviewEcology Letters
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Long-term reproductive behaviour of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): suprannual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversityCarbon trading won’t work
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Originally in the LA Times earlier this month... Carbon trading won’t work Experiments with the market scheme favored by Schwarzenegger shows trading favors big polluters without curbing global warming gases. By Michael K. Dorsey MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on Dartmouth...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
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