Social Ecology of Conservation and Development
Creating Binational Peace Parks between Honduras and Nicaragua
Richard Chaves, Director of The Nature Conservancy of Nicaragua and an F&ES Alum will speak on "Creating Binational Peace Parks between Honduras and Nicaragua" The Nature Conservancy at Nicaragua (TNC) is involved in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve that encompasses an extensive part of...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Paul DeClay White Mountain Apache Tribal Forest Manager and Mary Stuever Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation Coordinator for the White Mountain Apache Tribe Lessons Learned: White Mountain Apache Tribal Forestry and the Rodeo-Chediski Fire Paul DeClay, White Mountain Apache Tribal Forest...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our weekly Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Food and Beverages Provided. Brett Butler Research Forester with the Forest Inventory & Analysis Unit of the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station "Understanding and Researching...
Agroecología y la Lucha para la Soberanía Alimentaria en las Américas
Order a print copy This is the Spanish language version of a book published in two languages. Go to this title in English
Doctoral Student Receives Rolex Award for Snow Leopard Conservation
Doctoral student Shafqat Hussain has been chosen to receive a Rolex Award for his work on the conservation of the snow leopard in northern Pakistan. This prestigious award supports “exceptional men and women who are breaking new ground in areas which advance human knowledge and...The Environment and Development Interest Group
EnDev is made up of students from many countries who love experiencing new places and cultures and meeting people from all corners of the globe. The SIG is motivated by the belief that sustaining environmental quality to support the world’s poor is among the most critical challenges today. EnDev...
The Faces of Extinction
2006 Student Internship Adrián Cerezo Internship Host: Slow Food USA & Slow Food International, Spain
Recent Lecture: Mary Evelyn Tucker
A video on environmental crises and the role of religion in fashioning solutions. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim. 47 minutes.
Agroecology and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Americas
Order a Print Copy This is the English language version of a book published in two languages. > en EspanolPrestigious Yale Prize Awarded to Recent Graduate
John Tuxill, who received a Ph.D. from Yale's environment school last December, has been awarded Yale’s prestigious John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation, “Agrarian Change and Crop Diversity in Mayan Milpas of Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for In Situ Conservation.” ...Course Descriptions - Social and Political Ecology
Social and Political Ecology F&ES 83047a, Social Ecology, Community Forestry, and the Future of Place-Based Environmentalism. 6 credits. This seminar explores the art and science of community-based field ecology as a means of providing a more participatory and therefore sustainable suite of...
The Ecotourism Equation: Measuring the Impacts
Section II: What Are the Parameters of Ecotourism Success?Social Ecology of Conservation and Development
This focal area developed out of the realization over the past generation that understanding the social, cultural, political, economic, and historic dimensions of the environment is as important to wise stewardship as is understanding its bio-physical dimensions. A distinguishing characteristic...
Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments
Jeff Albert, Magnus Bernhardsson, and Roger Kenna, Editors Order a print copyEcology Letters
| Lisa M. Curran
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 diversity
Greening Pakistan's Cities
| Saleem Ali
Nostalgically, most Pakistanis salute President Ayub Khan for his vision in establishing the capital city of Islamabad. Apart from its abysmal airport, which pales in comparison to Lahore and Karachi’s lavish terminals, Islamabad is often mentioned by expatriate Pakistanis to foreigners with a...
Aldeafeliz Ecovillage
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ALDEAFELIZ ECOVILLAGE: Finding happy ways to live sustainably Why an ecovillage? You might have dreamed of a lifestyle where you are closer to nature, and live as a community, where the values of respect for people, nature, and self are promoted. You might also want to live in an...
Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution
| Saleem Ali
From the Editor's Preface: The famed naturalist Aldo Leopold was appointed as the first conservation advisor to the United Nations soon after the end of World War II. Yet little is known about Leopold’s mandate for this short-lived position that ended with his death in 1948. During my days...
The Ecology of Walmart
| Saleem Ali
By Saleem H. Ali Introduction Corporations have often been described in organismic terms because of their capacity for impact on the environment and some of their behavioral attributes such as resource consumption, waste generation and growth. Corporate unions or mergers are frequently...Carbon trading won’t work
| Michael Dorsey
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...Articles and Book Chapters
| Michael R. Dove
In review Perception of Volcanic Eruption as Agent of Change on Merapi Volcano, Central Java. For special issue on ‘volcanic risk perception’ of Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. In press Nature, Society, and Science in Southeast Asia's Grasslands. In: Southeast Asian...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
| SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's third magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.eduMaster's Research Colloquium
| Rachelle Gould
2007 Master’s Student Research Colloquium Schedule 9:00-9:15 OPENING 9:15–10:15 SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL & SPATIAL PATTERNS Tamara Muruetagoiena, Punit Lalbhai, Brandon Berkeley, Charlie Liu, Beth Feingold 10:15–11:15 ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION Maya Cahn, Steven...
Valuing Nature
| Saleem Ali
Economists have successfully branded themselves as scientists with mathematical exactitude who can artfully negotiate the vagaries of human consumption patterns through pricing mechanisms. Yet the life support systems that sustain the planet have eluded their grasp, and have often been relegated...Climate Change Effects on Sub-Saharan Africa Conference
| Kerry Dooley
A conference on the topic of climate change as it relates to Sub-Saharan Africa is taking place June 6-9, 2007 in Coutonou, Benin. Issues covered will range from impacts on agriculture and ecosystems to adaptation strategies. Abstract submission deadline is April 15th. See attached brochure for...
