… 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 … create economic incentives for private forest owners by drawing upon previously untapped sources of publicly derived funding. Project Outcomes Based on these findings, the … part of ongoing land management and research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States and potentially rising as, … accessing nature and gaining treatment for mental health concerns. The land conservation community has a unique opportunity to help reverse these trends. Time spent in nature has … Himschoot Master of Environmental Management 2021 Alumni Jessica Lloyd Forest Manager at YaleForests Master of Forestry 2020 Alumni Aaron Reuben Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical …
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… private sector can employ to reduce carbon emissions. While policy tools and guidance exist for carbon pricing at the national level, it is not clear how implementation might differ in a business environment or another setting. Our project seeks to supplement the growing carbon-pricing literature, given the promise of … a policy framework of key decisions lessons learned from an examination of case studies on Yale University, Microsoft, Société Générale, Delta, and QANTAS Airlines in the context of …
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… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve … power while maintaining reliability. Businesses can benefit from consultants with specific insights in renewable energy to design and implement personalized renewable energy systems …
… model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. Adopting this framework can help companies … natural resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, …
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… 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 … Solutions Equity and Justice Participants Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu … Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak … Low productivity in agriculture is a significant …