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The President and Fellows of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.LITT., PH.D.

Fellows
Her Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
His Honor the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
George Leonard Baker, Jr., B.A., M.B.A., Palo Alto, California.
Edward Perry Bass, B.S., Fort Worth, Texas.
Roland Whitney Betts, B.A., J.D., New York, New York.
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes, B.A., M.B.A., New York, New York.
Gerhard Casper, LL.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Atherton, California.
Donna Lee Dubinsky, B.A., M.B.A., Portola Valley, California.
Charles Daniel Ellis, B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., New Haven, Connecticut.
Jeffrey Powell Koplan, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., Atlanta, Georgia (June 2009).
Maya Ying Lin, B.A., M.Arch., D.F.A., New York, New York (June 2008).
Margaret Hilary Marshall, B.A., M.Ed., J.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2010).
William Irwin Miller, B.A., M.B.A., Columbus, Indiana (June 2011).
Indra Nooyi, B.S., M.B.A., M.P.P.M., Greenwich, Connecticut.
Barrington Daniels Parker, B.A., LL.B., Stamford, Connecticut.
Theodore Ping Shen, B.A., M.B.A., Brooklyn Heights, New York (June 2007).
Margaret Garrard Warner, B.A., Washington, D.C. (June 2012).
Fareed Zakaria, B.A., Ph.D., New York, New York.

The Officers of Yale University

President
Richard Charles Levin, B.A., B.Litt., Ph.D.

Provost
Andrew David Hamilton, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S.

Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.

Vice President and General Counsel
Dorothy Kathryn Robinson, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development
Bruce Donald Alexander, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Development
Ingeborg Theresia Reichenbach, Staatsexamen

Vice President for Finance and Administration
Shauna Ryan King, B.S., M.B.A.

Faculty and Administration

Faculty Emeriti

Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., Ph.D., Oastler Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology.
George Mason Furnival, M.F., D.F., J.P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Forest Management.
Arthur W. Galston, Ph.D., Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Professor Emeritus of Forestry, and Lecturer in Political Science.
John Charles Gordon, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Charles Lee Remington, M.S., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biology and Professor Emeritus of Forest Entomology and Environmental Studies.
David Martyn Smith, M.F., Ph.D., Sc.D., Morris K. Jesup Professor Emeritus of Silviculture.
William Hulse Smith, M.F., Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Forest Biology.

Board of Permanent Officers

Richard Charles Levin, B.Litt., Ph.D., President of the University.
Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D., F.R.S., Provost of the University.
James Gustave Speth, M.Litt., J.D., Dean, and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy.
* Mark S. Ashton, M.F., Ph.D., Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology and Director of School Forests.
* Gaboury Benoit, M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Chemistry; Professor of Environmental Engineering; Co-Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology; Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems; and Associate Dean for Research.
Graeme Pierce Berlyn, Ph.D., E.H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management; Professor of Anatomy and Physiology of Trees; and Editor, Journal of Sustainable Forestry.
William Richard Burch, Jr., M.S., Ph.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management; Professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; and Director, Urban Resources Initiative.
Benjamin Cashore, M.A., PH.D., Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance and Political Science; and Director, Program on Forest Policy and Governance.
Lisa M. Curran, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of Tropical Resources and Director, Tropical Resources Institute.
Michael Roger Dove, M.A., Ph.D., Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology; Professor of Anthropology; and Coordinator, F&ES/Anthropology Degree Program.
§ Daniel C. Esty, M.A., J.D., Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy; Clinical Professor, Law School; Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy; and Director, Yale World Fellows Program.
* Thomas Eldon Graedel, M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Clifton R. Musser Professor of Industrial Ecology; Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Geology and Geophysics; and Director, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Timothy G. Gregoire, Ph.D., J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor of Forest Management.
Stephen Robert Kellert, Ph.D., Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology and Co-Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology.
* Xuhui Lee, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor of Forest Meteorology and Micrometeorology and Director of Doctoral Studies.
Robert Mendelsohn, Ph.D., Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy; Professor of Economics; and Professor, School of Management.
Chadwick Dearing Oliver, M.F.S, Ph.D., Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry.
James E. Saiers, M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Hydrology.
Oswald J. Schmitz, M.Sc., Ph.D., Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
David K. Skelly, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
John Peter Wargo, Ph.D., Professor of Risk Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Political Science; Director, Environment and Health Initiative; and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Studies Program, Yale College.

* On leave of absence, fall 2007.
† On leave of absence, spring 2008.
§ On leave of absence, 2007–2008 academic year.

Ladder Faculty

Robert Bailis, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science (Spring 2007).
Michelle L. Bell, M.S.E., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Health.
Marian R. Chertow, M.P.P.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Industrial Environmental Management; Director, Program on Solid Waste Policy; and Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program.
† Erin T. Mansur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Management.
* Sheila Olmstead, M.P.Aff., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics.
Peter A. Raymond, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology.
Julie B. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Green Engineering.

Non-Ladder Faculty

Paul Anastas, Ph.D., Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry.
Shimon C. Anisfeld, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Water Resources Environmental Chemistry.
Richard Burroughs, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Coastal Science and Policy.
Ellen Brennan-Galvin, Ph.D., Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar.
Ann E. Camp, M.F.S., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Stand Dynamics and Forest Health.
Carol Carpenter, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in Natural Resource Social Science and Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology.
Susan Gail Clark, M.S., Ph.D., Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Policy.
Amity Doolittle, M.E.S., Ph.D., Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, and Program Director, Tropical Resources Institute.
Paul Alexander Draghi, M.A., M.A., Ph.D., Director of Information and Library Systems and Lecturer in Forest History.
Helmut Ernstberger, Ph.D., Lecturer; Associate Research Scientist; and Analytical Laboratory Manager.
Gordon T. Geballe, M.S., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs and Lecturer in Urban Ecology.
Bradford S. Gentry, J.D., Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Investments; Research Scholar; Co-Director, Yale–UNDP Collaborative Program on the Urban Environment; and Director, Research Program on Private Investment and the Environment.
Arnulf Grubler, Ph.D., Professor in the Field of Energy and Technology.
Lloyd Irland, Ph.D., Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist.
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D., Research Scientist and Director of Strategic Initiatives.
Reid J. Lifset, M.S., M.P.P.M., Associate Research Scholar; Associate Director, Industrial Environmental Management Program; and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Florencia Montagnini, M.S., Ph.D., Professor in the Practice of Tropical Forestry and Director of the Program in Tropical Forestry of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry.
* Robert Repetto, Ph.D., Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development.
Jonathan D. Reuning-Scherer, Ph.D., Lecturer in Statistics.
Thomas G. Siccama, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer.
Lisa Welp, Ph.D., Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow.

* On leave of absence, fall 2007.

Courtesy Joint Appointments

Michelle Addington, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Architecture.
James W. Axley, M.Arch., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Architecture.
Ruth Elaine Blake, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics.
Adalgisa (Gisella) Caccone, M.S., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
David Cromwell, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct), School of Management.
Michael Donoghue, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Menachem Elimelech, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Engineering.
Robert Eugene Evenson, Ph.D., Professor of Economics.
Willis Jenkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, Divinity School.
Brian P. Leaderer, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine.
William Mitch, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.
William Nordhaus, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Economics.
Jeffrey Powell, Ph.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Richard Prum, Ph.D., William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum.
James C. Scott, Ph.D., Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science; Professor of Anthropology; and Director, Program in Agrarian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Ronald B. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering; and Director, Yale Center for Earth Observation.
Stephen C. Stearns, M.S., Ph.D., Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Karl Turekian, Ph.D., Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Director, Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Ernesto Zedillo, Ph.D., Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of International Economics and International Relations; and Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.

Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Primary Appointments Elsewhere

Dale S. Bryk, M.A., J.D., Lecturer in Environmental Law.
Maureen Burke, M.B.A., Lecturer.
Chou Loke Ming, Ph.D., Visiting Professor.
Douglas C. Daly, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct).
Mary Beth Decker, Ph.D., Lecturer.
William Ellis, Ph.D., Resident Fellow in Industrial Environmental Management.
James Fickle, Ph.D., Visiting Professor.
John Grim, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer.
Calestous Juma, Ph.D., Visiting Professor (spring).
Lawrence Kelly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Adjunct).
Roy Lee, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct).
Lye Lin Heng, LL.M., Visiting Associate Professor.
James R. Lyons, M.F., Lecturer and Research Scholar.
James G. MacBroom, P.E., Lecturer in River Processes and Restoration.
Fabian Michaelangeli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Adjunct).
Arvid Nelson, Ph.D., Lecturer.
John R. Nolon, J.D., Visiting Professor.
Charles M. Peters, M.F.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Ecology.
Nicholas Robinson, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct).
Dennis W. Stevenson, Ph.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Studies.
Fred Strebeigh, B.A., Senior Lecturer in Environmental Writing.
Charles Dana Tomlin, Ph.D., Visiting Professor.
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Ph.D., Senior Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer.
William Vance, Ph.D., Lecturer.

Research Appointments

Daniel Abbasi, M.B.A., Research Affiliate.
Ruth Allen, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Donald E. Aylor, M.E.S., Ph.D., Research Affiliate in Biometeorology.
Mary K. Berlyn, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist.
Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist.
Ian Cameron, M.F., Research Affiliate.
John Ehrenfeld, Sc.D., Senior Research Scholar.
Michael Ferrucci, M.F., Research Affiliate.
Durland Fish, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist.
John Forgach, B.A., Research Affiliate.
Lauri K. Freidenberg, Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar.
Eva Garen, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Jefferson Hall, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
A.L. Hammett III, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Harri Kalimo, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Robert Klee, Ph.D., J.D., Research Affiliate.
Tracy Langkilde, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow.
Fengmin Li, Ph.D., Visiting Professor.
Laly Lichtenfeld, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Lu Zhi, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Javier Mateo-Vega, M.A., Research Affiliate.
Constance McDermott, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist.
Daniel Muller, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist.
Derek Murrow, M.E.M., Research Affiliate.
Neung-Hwan Oh, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist.
Raphaële Preget, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Michael A. Rechlin, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
V. Alaric Sample, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
R. Neil Sampson, M.P.A., Research Affiliate.
Oliver Schabenberger, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Shangping Xu, Ph.D., Postgraduate Associate.
Yajie Song, Ph.D., Research Scholar.
Rajesh Thadani, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Anitra Thorhaug, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Talbot Trotter III, Associate Research Scientist.
Mark Twery, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Harry T. Valentine, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Seth Wilson, Ph.D., Research Affiliate.
Ying Zhang, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor.

Center and Program and Research Staff

Amy Badner, Senior Administrative Assistant, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale.
Susan Rae Bolden, M.S., Research Assistant.
Jing Cao, M.A., Data Coordinator/Statistician, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Beverly Chevalier, B.A., Administrative Associate, International Society for Industrial Ecology.
Gary Dunning, M.F., Executive Director, The Forests Dialogue.
Melissa Goodall, M.S., Associate Director, Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Edward Gordon, M.S., Ph.D., Journal Editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Bryan Garcia, M.E.M., Program Director, Center for Business and the Environment.
David Hobson, M.F., Manager, School Forests.
Jonas Karosas, Laboratory Assistant.
Christine Kim, Research Associate, Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Kari Mull, B.S., Research Assistant.
Colleen Murphy-Dunning, M.S., Center Director, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, and Program Director, Urban Resources Initiative.
Cheryl Myrup, M.L.S., Assistant Editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology.
P. Christopher Ozyck, B.S., Greenspace Coordinator, Urban Resources Initiative.
Justin Pegnataro, B.S., Environmental Education Coordinator, Urban Resources Initiative.
Barbara Reck, M.S.Eng., Research Associate, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Barbara Ruth, M.Phil., Coordinator, Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry.
Martha McCormick Smith, M.E.M., Program Director, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Mary Tyrrell, M.B.A., M.F.S., Executive Director, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, and Program Director, Program on Private Forests.
Paul-Bendiks Walberg, M.B.A., Deputy Director, Center for Biodiversity, Conservation, and Science.
Kristen Welsh, M.E.M., Program Facilitator, Tropical Resources Institute.

Administrative Staff

Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant, Career Development.
Mary Andrew, Senior Administrative Assistant, Development.
Timothy Arnold, B.A., Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support.
Elisabeth Barsa, B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Doctoral Program.
Lauri Bozzuto, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Suport.
J. Alan Brewster, M.P.A., Deputy Dean and Research Scholar.
Deborah Broadwater, M.B.A., Assistant Director of Career Development, Career Services.
Marci Burrell, Financial Assistant IV, Business Office.
Roger Cohn, B.A., Senior Editor, YaleEnvironment Online.
Jane Coppock, M.E.M., Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Editor, F&ES Publication Series.
Irene Courtmanche, Senior Administrative Assistant, Alumni Affairs.
Andrew Daly, Coordinator, Development.
Joanne E. DeBernardo, B.S., Registrar and Director of Student Affairs.
Timothy De Cerbo, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support.
Deborah DeFord, B.A., Coordinator, Alumni Affairs.
David DeFusco, B.S., Director of Communications.
Lisa Fernandez, M.E.S., Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives.
Matthew Garrett, B.F.A., Web Communications Manager.
Eugénie I. Gentry, B.A., Director of Development.
Florence Grandelli, Director of Human Resources and Payroll.
Teena Marie Griggs, Office Assistant III, Business Office.
Robert Hartmann, Computer Support, Information Systems.
Linda Jacobs, Senior Administrative Assistant, Financial Aid.
Angela Kuhne, M.A., Assistant Director of Admissions.
Marilyn Kurtz, J.D., Senior Administrative Assistant, Communications.
Jennith Liner, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support.
Carmela Lubenow, Financial Assistant, Business Office.
Victoria Manders, Dip.F.M., Senior Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office.
Nancy Marino, Office Assistant, Facilities.
Catherine J. Marshall, M.P.A., Senior Administrative Assistant II, Dean’s Office.
Emly McDiarmid, M.F.S., Director of Admissions.
Eleanor Migliore, M.S., M.L.S., Senior Administrative Assistant II, Faculty Support.
Luz Miranda, B.S., Financial Assistant IV, Business Office.
Kelly Molloy, Senior Administrative Assistant, Information Systems.
Pilar M. Montalvo, M.A., Assistant Dean.
Denise Mrazik, A.S., Senior Administrative Assistant, Business Office.
Timothy Northrop, M.E.M., Corporate and Foundations Officer, Development.
Stanton C. Otis, Jr., M.Ed., Director of Career Development.
Julio Patron, Maintenance Assistant, Facilities.
Shiva Prasad, B.S., Computer and Information Systems Support Specialist.
Karen Primavera, Office Assistant, Facilities.
Ann Prokop, M.A., Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support.
Quetcy Rivas Maldonado, Senior Administrative Assistant II, Admissions.
Elnora Russell-Bell, M.B.A., Assistant Administrator, Business Office.
Sherry Ryan, B.B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office.
Dominic Scalia, Facilities Manager.
Kathleen Schomaker, M.E.S., M.Phil., Director of Alumni Affairs.
Sarah Shrewsbury, B.A., Major Gifts Officer, Development.
Rosanne Stoddard, Senior Administrative Assistant, Registrar’s Office.
Veronica Taylor, Administrative Assistant, Faculty Support.
Thomas Tuscano, M.B.A., Director of Finance and Administration.
Charles R. Waskiewicz, M.P.I.A., Assistant Business Manager.
Bethany Zemba, M.P.A., Director of Financial Aid.

Henry S. Graves Memorial Library

Carla Heister, M.A., M.S., Librarian.
Fei Huang, B.S., Catalog Assistant.
Adiba Nabizada, M.S., Library Services Assistant.

A Message to Prospective Students from Dean James Gustave Speth

Over the century since its founding, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has evolved from a professional school of forestry to perhaps the world’s finest training ground for tomorrow’s environmental leaders. Research and teaching efforts have expanded to include not only forestry but also the fundamental concerns that today comprise the challenge of environmental management.

One of the central goals at our School today is nothing less than the building of a new academic field, an interdiscipline called “environment.” It is the rigorous scientific study of the interactions between human societies and the natural world of the biosphere. Knowledge generated in this new field becomes the basis for environmental management. Societies need a generation of professionals trained in environmental management, and we also need the knowledge of environment to infuse the traditional professions—business, law, science and engineering, medicine and so on—and to motivate a revolution in personal choice as each of us carries out daily life.

The School provides a broad-gauged educational experience that equips its graduates to assume influential roles in government, business, nongovernmental organizations, public and international affairs, journalism, research, and education. The faculty and I will continue to direct our teaching and research efforts to solving local, national, and global problems. Drawing on such considerations as those listed below, we will continue to evaluate and expand our existing programs.

• Human alterations of the biosphere have reached critical levels. As a result, nations face a new generation of global-scale environmental challenges, including climate change, ozone depletion, deforestation, loss of biological diversity, and the deterioration of agricultural resources. Meanwhile, challenges such as sustainable forest management and pollution abatement persist.
  
  
• Many solutions to today’s environmental challenges lie outside the established “environmental sector” and require approaches different from those previously adopted. Progress now requires a fusion of environmental and economic thinking and a willingness on the part of business, government, and environmental leaders to work together to integrate goals. Environmental objectives need to be incorporated into corporate planning, energy strategy, technology policy, R&D funding, tax policy, international trade and finance, development assistance, and other matters that once seemed far removed.
  
  
• Cooperation between developing and industrial countries is critical, with current progress hampered by a desperate shortage of trained personnel and human capacity.
  
  
• The increased awareness that environmental concerns are moving into the international arena will require that U.S. environmental policy be more in concert with other nations, thus giving birth to a new field of environmental diplomacy.
  

I hope and expect that those of you entering the School at this time as students will join me in shaping its future and exerting a positive influence on the prospects for environmental progress. I encourage you to use this bulletin as a means to explore how F&ES can help facilitate your goals. Please visit our Web site (www.yale.edu/environment) to get an inside view of the dynamics and energy that will make F&ES an ideal place to continue your education.

Mission of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies prepares new leadership and creates new knowledge to sustain and restore the long-term health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people.

We recognize that environmental challenges are increasingly international and seek to build a truly global school of the environment.

We believe that the human enterprise can and must be conducted in harmony with the environment, using natural resources in ways that sustain both resources and ourselves.

We believe that solving environmental problems must incorporate human values and motivations and a deep respect for both human and natural communities.

We seek to integrate concern for Earth’s ecosystems with equal concern for social equity.

We believe that a school of the environment must also be a school of sustainable development.

We find strength in our collegiality, diversity, independence, and commitment to excellence.

We educate women and men to guide human activity at the local, national, and global levels with a comprehensive understanding of the environmental, economic, and social effects of their choices.

We create new knowledge in the science of sustainability and new methods of applying that knowledge to the challenge of environmental management, the restoration of degraded environments, and the pursuit of sustainable development.

We collaborate with all sectors of society to achieve fair and effective solutions to environmental problems.

For over one hundred years, first as a pioneering school of forestry, Yale has marshaled the expertise of diverse disciplines in the service of responsible stewardship of the environment. As the world’s population grows and development accelerates, conserving the beauty, diversity, and integrity of the natural world becomes at once more important and more challenging.

We reaffirm our belief that such conservation is a practical and moral imperative.

History of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Yale University has played a leading role in the development of American conservation and natural resource management since the 1800s, when such Yale graduates as William Henry Brewer, Othniel C. Marsh, Clarence King, and George Bird Grinnell were deeply involved with the exploration of the West and with the proper use of Western resources. In 1900 that tradition was strengthened further when the University established the Yale Forest School. The men responsible for establishing the School were Gifford Pinchot, B.A. 1889, LL.D. 1925, and Henry S. Graves, B.A. 1892, LL.D. 1940. Pinchot was the first American to receive professional forestry training in Europe, and Graves the second. As consulting foresters and later from within the government’s Division of Forestry, they carried out on private lands the first examples of forest management in the United States. The School was founded with a gift from the Pinchot family to ensure a continuing supply of professionals to carry out the work that lay ahead.

Pinchot, who became one of the leading figures in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, created the USDA Forest Service and served as its first chief. Credited with coining the phrase “conservation of natural resources,” he defined conservation as the wise use of the earth for the good of present and future generations.

Since its founding, it has been the School’s mission to turn Pinchot’s vision of conservation into educational and professional reality. Leading that quest until 1940 was the School’s first head (and later, dean) and intellectual leader, Henry S. Graves. To Graves, graduate education, like that in law and medicine, would define the new profession. Over the years, objectives have broadened, the mission has been interpreted differently, and methods of instruction have changed. Each decade has presented its singular challenges, and the School has responded vigorously to the leading problems of the day. In 1972 its name was changed to the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in formal recognition of the School’s belief that it is concerned, in its broadest sense, with the scientific understanding and long-term management of ecosystems for human benefit.

During the academic year 2000–2001, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies celebrated the achievements of its graduates and faculty and its first one hundred years of teaching and research with a series of centennial events. The School convened alumni/ae and friends from around the world for three days of celebration and discussion of the environmental challenges facing the world in coming decades. In addition, the School hosted eight major figures as centennial lecturers on critical global environmental issues, and cosponsored a panel discussion featuring four preeminent environmental journalists with Yale’s Poynter Fellows in Journalism program, the first such panel of Poynter Fellows to focus on environmental issues.

As Yale’s Environment School heads into its second century, research and teaching are focused on the following broad areas: ecology, ecosystems, and biodiversity; environmental management and social ecology in developing societies; forest science and management; global change science and policy; health and environment; industrial environmental management; policy, economics, and the law; urban ecology, environmental planning, design, and values; and coastal and watershed systems. Under the leadership of Dean James Gustave Speth, the School is determined to extend its scope to the greatest extent possible to meet the profound global environmental challenges the world faces in the twenty-first century.

Statement of Environmental Policy

As faculty, staff, and students of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, we affirm our commitment to responsible stewardship of the environment of our School, our University, the city of New Haven, and the other sites of our teaching, research, professional, and social activities.

In the course of these activities, we shall strive to:

• reduce our use of natural resources;
  
  
• support the sustainable production of the resources we must use by purchasing renewable, reusable, recyclable, and recycled materials;
  
  
• minimize our use of toxic substances and ensure that unavoidable use is in full compliance with federal, state, and local environmental regulations;
  
  
• reduce the amount of waste we generate and promote strategies to reuse and recycle those wastes that cannot be avoided; and
  
  
• restore the environment where possible.
  

Each member of the School community is encouraged to set an example for others by serving as an active steward of our environment.

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