… 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 … research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses Management Plans for …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in recent years. Since 2015, the year we published our … global warming in the absence of immediate action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement. In this survey of 2,035 global business students, … and Impact in Business" - UConn Today "Yale report shows business students want better corporate climate practices" - Yale Daily News "Global Network Survey Finds Students …
… 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 … developed two models: 1) the wind turbine (WT) reliability prediction model and 2) the “Four-Quadrant Component/Subsystem Maintenance Model.” The WT reliability prediction model was … a methodology for performing a wind turbine life cycle impact analysis and to quantify the environmental impacts (e.g., carbon footprint, global warning potential, ozone depletion …
… 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 … environmental sustainability — exacerbates this confusion. To cut through the noise, our team from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that is the single biggest driver of climate change: greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), measured in metric tons …
… schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that: Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues are increasingly punished by the men and women they would like to … 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with betterenvironmental practices. Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents expressed an …
… how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined motivation are the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrast to a sustainability characterised by survival. The investigators’ … Areas of Focus Equity and Justice Participants Marian Chertow Professor of Industrial Environmental Management at Yale School of the Environment MPPM 1981 Ph.D. in Environmental …
… 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja … economic development. Palm oil was an important economic lever in rural development. To better accommodate the interest of small palm oil farmers, the Indonesian government created …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development … plantation companies had violated traditional land rights. Indonesian land-use laws were ambiguous and land ownership unmapped. This indeterminate state of affairs had led to … if not handled correctly. For Greenpeace and other NGOs, the opposition to IPOP raised questions of how to bring the industry to adopt NDPE standard. Who should they target with …
… the stakeholder groups are similar and stable; the overall desire to create a market –forenvironmental, political, and/or economic reasons—is considerable; and yet, there is … of cases to explore in full depth. A second stage entails the selection of two to four well-matched cases (for information on matched comparisons see George and Bennett, 2004) … make considerable progress in the second stage of the project. The research team has made big advances in the process of data collection, and as the process continues for giving …
… and creating strong environmental commitments. The circular economy represents one of the biggest environmental and economic opportunities through which companies can lower their … 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 … natural resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, …