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Five YSE Faculty Members Make ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ List

YSE faculty members Michelle Bell, Mark Bradford, Karen Seto, Peter Raymond and Anthony Leiserowitz were recognized by Clarivate Analytics for their published papers from the past decade being among the most cited in their field.

Fishing for Fun, Not Food: Paper Takes Stock of Recreational Fishing Impacts

A new paper co-led by Yale economist Eli Fenichel argues that decision-makers and fishing organizations must recognize the growing role of recreational fishing and the potential pressures it places on fish stocks.

Fire at Yale Myers Forest Camp

A message from Dean Peter Crane about the fire at Yale Myers Forest

F&ES Student Talk on Ivory Trade Honored at Conservation Conference

held last week at the American Museum of Natural History.

F&ES Student Researchers Take Center Stage in Day-long Conference

Forty-nine master’s students, doctoral students, and postdocs from the School community presented their research during the 34th annual F&ES Research Conference.

F&ES Research Spawns New Insights Into Aquatic Release of ‘Ancient’ Carbon

A group of scientists with origins at F&ES; has reported the first global estimate of how much “ancient” carbon is released from the terrestrial landscape through aquatic systems.

Moving ‘Natural Capital’ From Metaphor to Reality

In a new paper, F&ES Prof. Eli Fenichel and a co-author report developing an approach to calculate a fair and consistent price for natural capital stocks that is grounded in the same theory of economic capital that governs the pricing of other capital assets, from stock prices to factories.

Federal Grant Will Help Inform Family Forest Owners About Land Options

A new federal grant will help a F&ES-based project inform more family forest owners about their land stewardship options — and to protect even more forest property for the long term.

F&ES Scientist Contributes to Alarming IPCC Report on Looming Climate Costs

Professor Edgar Hertwich contributed to a major report on climate change from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which predicts that crisis-level drought, food shortages, and coastal erosion could happen within the next 20 years.

Experts of Thangmi Culture Join Himalaya Initiative

<p class="p1"> Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin hold a statue of Ganesha, a Hindu god. The children’s blocks are for learning the Devanagari script, in which Nepali and Hindi, as well as many other South Asian languages, are written. Buddhist prayer flags hang in the background.</p>

The Himalayan Initiative made its first hire when it was still just a vague idea in Shivi Sivaramakrishnan’s head. In 2009 he helped recruit Sara Shneiderman, then a postdoc at Cambridge University, as an assistant professor of anthropology—“a very unusual hiring,” says Shneiderman, because “the Himalayas are typically defined as peripheral” to South Asian Studies. She spent a year

Expanding Adaptive Financing Options For Post-Disaster Recovery

As part of their F&ES masters project, students Laura Hammett ’17 M.E.M. and Katy Mixter ’17 M.E.M./M.B.A. recently convened experts from humanitarian and financial organizations for a one-day workshop on the challenges of post-disaster reconstruction and resilience.

Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Rural American West

The Rural West Covid Project, led by Justin Farrell, associate professor of sociology at the Yale School of the Environment, aims to close that data gap and provide policymakers and others with new information on rural Westerners’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

EPA Rollback of Mercury Rule Relies on Flawed Analysis, Yale Economist Asserts

An attempt by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to roll back federal limits on mercury emissions ignores important public health benefits, an economist at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies writes in a new paper. And it could set a dangerous precedent.

Environmental Impacts of Demand-Side Technologies and Strategies for Carbon Mitigation

aims to advance our understanding of life cycle environmental and natural resource implications of energy efficiency technologies.

Energy Choices Can Be Contagious – But Why? New Insights Into Peer Influence

A growing body of research shows that the behavior of peers has a significant influence on an individual’s energy-related decisions, whether it’s choosing to install solar panels or to purchase a hybrid vehicle. In short, personal energy choices can be contagious.

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