MEM
Specialization
Specialization
People, Equity, and the Environment
Our Vision
The purpose of this specialization is to give today's professional environmental managers a range of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological skills necessary for understanding how to critique, improve and implement models of environmental management that address historically engrained challenges. For these reasons, this specialization expands beyond ahistorical and technical training by focusing students on historical processes, power dynamics and changing societal values.Faculty
Amity Doolittle
Amity Doolittle’s research focuses on property rights and how control over and access to natural resources is defined, negotiated, and contested by different stakeholders. She is interested in understanding the social and political processes that result in centuries of social inequities and unequal distribution of the benefits and burdens of natural resources. Her research often takes on a historical approach focusing on issues of legal and cultural pluralism. Her research approach is interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from anthropology, political science, environmental history, and political ecology to explore environmental histories, property relations and conflicts over resources use. Her research has been primarily in Southeast Asia, but she has also worked on projects in Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, and Peru. Current research is focused on history of land use change in New Haven, Connecticut.
Amity Doolittle’s research focuses on property rights and how control over and access to natural resources is defined, negotiated, and contested by different stakeholders. She is interested in understanding the social and political processes that result in centuries of social inequities and unequal distribution of the benefits and burdens of natural resources. Her research often takes on a historical approach focusing on issues of legal and cultural pluralism. Her research approach is interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from anthropology, political science, environmental history, and political ecology to explore environmental histories, property relations and conflicts over resources use. Her research has been primarily in Southeast Asia, but she has also worked on projects in Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, and Peru. Current research is focused on history of land use change in New Haven, Connecticut.
Teaching Faculty
Faculty who are currently teaching courses within this specialization.
Mark S. Ashton
Senior Associate Dean of the Forest School; Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology and Director of School ForestsMark Bradford
Professor, Soils and Ecosystem EcologyCarol Carpenter
Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Natural Resource Social Science and Adjunct Lecturer in AnthropologySusan G. Clark
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy SciencesLiza Comita
Associate Professor of Tropical Forest EcologyAmity Doolittle
Senior LecturerMichael R. Dove
Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology Peabody Museum; Co-Coordinator, Joint F&ES/Anthropology Doctoral Program; Chair Council on SoutheastMarlyse Duguid
Thomas G Siccama LecturerAssociate Research Scientist
Director of Research—Yale Forests
Justin Farrell
Associate Professor of SociologyGordon T. Geballe
Associate Dean for Student International Engagement, Lecturer in Urban EcologyBradford S. Gentry
Senior Associate Dean of Professional Practice; Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy; Co-Director of the Center for Business & the EnvironmentJohn Grim
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research ScholarWilliam Lauenroth
Professor in the PracticeKristin Reynolds
LecturerGerald Torres
Professor of Environmental JusticeMary Evelyn Tucker
Senior Lecturer and Senior Research ScholarJohn P. Wargo
Tweedy-Ordway Professor of Environmental Health and Political Science at Yale University.Chair, Yale College Environmental Studies Major and Program.
Visiting and Consulting Professor at
Harvey Weiss
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental StudiesEvents
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Learning Communities
- Business and the Environment
- Climate Change Science and Solutions
- Ecosystem Management and Conservation
- Energy and the Environment
- Environmental Policy Analysis
- Forestry
- Industrial Ecology and Green Chemistry
- People, Equity, and the Environment
- Urban
- Water Resource Science and Management
