… both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation on private forestland. A survey was administered by three master’s students to 90 landowners and 692 forest users, and an additional 21 …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States and potentially rising as, … barriers to accessing nature and gaining treatment for mental health concerns. The landconservation community has a unique opportunity to help reverse these trends. Time spent in …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research … 19–23, 2012). Use and Applications Professor Khalil used the content of this research in three courses at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Air Pollution Control, … 19–23, 2012). Use and Applications Professor Khalil used the content of this research in three courses at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: Air Pollution Control, …
… operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable land-use system that benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or … land use. People often feel forced to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural economies. But with thoughtful planning, communities can …
… how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined motivation are the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrast … contribution distinguishes vision (or envisioning) from projections, scenarios, or forecasts in a way that provides access to crafting autonomous motivation for sustainability … a train-the-trainer professional development workshop at the Academy of Management in Orlando, Florida. The pitfalls and pathways are being expanded into an educational curriculum …
… and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance forLandConservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Mobilizing Finance forLandConservation …
… the stakeholder groups are similar and stable; the overall desire to create a market –for environmental, political, and/or economic reasons—is considerable; and yet, there is … and level of success observed in different settings, and c) provide enough background information to allow for the careful selection of cases to explore in full depth. A second … ethnographic interviews were conducted (some on-site in different states of New England) with representatives of each of the relevant stakeholder groups including …
… to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have … infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the consequences have felt distant and theoretical — until now. Unprecedented … the Paris Agreement on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct responsibility for their impact on climate change. While many corporations, investors, regulators, and …
… 2263 7453 Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands … Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands Nikki Springer (MBA '18, … leaders and news reporters will rightly remain occupied by this health and economic crisis for the foreseeable future, we have chosen to publish this report because we also know that eventual …
… in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have deleterious effects that actually reduce the long-run usability of … moisture retention. The project was designed in two phases to test different methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming … characteristics of the households as well as their farming practices and production levels. For the first round of interventions, information was provided to treatment households on …