… The objective of this project was to use 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 …
… Rates of mental health concernsfor children and adolescents are high across the United States … outdoors to new, diverse audiences, who may need it now more than ever. Published October 2020 7584 7619 7620 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … 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 … Presentations The results of this research were presented at the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Washington, D.C., which is the routing agency for a substantial share of U.S. …
… critical ecosystem services related to water quality, drought resilience, erosion prevention, crop yields, and carbon sequestration. These benefits - and the practices used to … uniquely positioned to support the local soil health work of farmers and ranchers. In California, Colorado, and New Mexico, state policy has established programs to support … by soil health policy experts. This guidebook was produced as part of The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment’s ongoing Regenerative Agriculture Initiative . Published …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in … renewable hybrid configurations to self-generate clean power while maintaining reliability. Businesses can benefit from consultants with specific insights in renewable energy to design …
… Can Ecosystem Services Valuation Bring Additional Value Streams to Minnesota’s Pollinator-Friendly … and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus Whitney Mann (Master of …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locatessolar energy production and agricultural … 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 … traditionally dominated discussions about solar-agricultural land use. People often feel forced to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural …
… From seaweed farming to oyster cultivation, our coasts represent some of the world’s most dynamic and vital regions of food production. Yet, farmers and fishermen alike … aquaculture and regenerative agriculture methods have garnered attention in recent yearsfor their potential to combat climate change, enhance food system resilience, and promote …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. … devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making the product better performing. Use and Applications Professor Newman has discussed these studies in his core Master of Business Administration class, among colleagues, and in conjunction with a case on green …
… is growing interest across variousstakeholder groups in adopting land use best practicesfor new projects. Pollinator-friendly solar, which incorporates native grasses and … turfgrass. However, we hypothesize that information and behavioral failures are currently preventing developers from adopting the practice. Thus, there may be a role for policy to spur the incorporation of pollinator-friendly practices in future solar development. That role becomes …