
Luke Sanford
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance
For students who seek to understand and employ analytical frameworks that apply to a broad range of environmental issue areas and are critical for strategic environmental policy within organizations that develop, analyze, practice and evaluate environmental and natural resource management.
Students specializing in Environmental Policy Analysis frequently seek employment in a range of organizations spanning all areas of environmental management, including government agencies, international development institutions, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and consulting firms.
Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.
Course | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 |
ENV 834 Environmental Economics and Policy |
Kotchen M,W 9:00-10:20 |
Kotchen |
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ENV 821 Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global |
Sanford M,W 2:30-3:50 |
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ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy |
Klee M,W 1:00-2:20 |
Klee |
Course | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 |
ENV 617 Real World Environmental Data Science |
Grewal M 2:30-5:20 |
Grewal |
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ENV 641 Market-Based Mechanisms for Water Management |
Kruse Th 1:00-3:50 |
Kruse Tentative |
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ENV 728 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences |
Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 2:30-3:50 |
Reuning-Scherer Tentative |
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ENV 730 Environmental Data Science in R: Understanding Methane Dynamics |
Malone Tu 2:30-5:20 |
Malone |
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ENV 753 Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data |
Gregoire M,W 10:30-11:50 |
Gregoire | ||
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences |
Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 1:00-2:15 |
Reuning-Scherer |
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ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models |
Tentative |
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ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis |
Faculty M,W 10:30-11:50 |
Faculty |
ECON 132a Econometrics and Data Analysis II |
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ECON 136b Econometrics |
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ECON 545a Microeconomics |
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ECON 558a Statistics and Econometrics |
Course | Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 |
ENV 568 Overshoot: The Environmental and Policy Implications of Exceeding 1.5°C (Fall -1 August 30-October 11) |
Smith W 4:00-6:50 |
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ENV 624 The Science, Policy, and Management of GHG Removal Strategies |
Saiers W 9:00-11:50 |
Saiers | ||
ENV 761 Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change |
Biniaz M 1:30-3:20 |
Biniaz Tentative |
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ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition |
Rhodes W 1:00-3:50 |
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ENV 820 Land Use Law and Environmental Planning |
Shansky M,W 4:00-5:20 |
Tentative |
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ENV 823 Energy Law and Policy (Follows Law School Calendar) |
Elliott Tu 2:10-4:00 |
Elliott Tentative |
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ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives |
Klee M,W 1:00-2:20 |
Klee | ||
ENV 860 Developing Environmental Policies and Winning Campaigns |
Alt M 1:00-3:50 |
Faculty Tentative |
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Until January 2024
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance
Beginning in January 2024
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, jointly with Yale Law School; Director of the…