Calendar

Fall 2002

August 10	Sat.	Orientation for international students.
August 11	Sun.	Orientation for summer modules.
August 12 - 30	Mon. - Fri.	Training modules in technical skills.
September 2	Mon.	Labor Day. School closed.
September 4	Tues.	Course Expo.
September 4	Wed.	Fall-term classes begin, 8.30 A.M.
September 18	Wed.	Course registration forms due.
October 2	Wed.	Add/Drop period ends.
November 22	Fri.	Fall recess begins, 5.30 p.m.
December 2	Mon.	Classes resume, 8.30 a.m.
December 6	Fri.	Classes end, 5.30 p.m. Reading period begins.
December 16	Mon.	Final examinations begin, 9 a.m.
December 21	Sat.	Final examinations end, 5.30 p.m. Winter recess begins.

Spring 2003

January 13	Mon.	Spring-term classes begin, 8.30 a.m.
January 20	Mon.	Martin Luther King Day. No classes.
January 27	Mon.	Course registration forms due.
February 10	Mon.	Add/Drop period ends.
March 7	Fri.	Spring recess begins, 5.30 p.m.
March 24	Mon.	Classes resume, 8.30 a.m.
April 25	Fri.	Classes end, 5.30 P.M. Reading period begins.
May 6	Tues.	Final examinations begin, 9 a.m.
May 13	Tues.	Final examinations end, 5 p.m.
May 26	Mon.	University Commencement.

The President and Fellows of Yale University

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

Fellows
His Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, ex officio.
Her 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 (June 2005).
Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., B.A., M.D., Upperco, Maryland (June 2003).
Gerhard Casper, LL.M., PH.D., Atherton, California.
Susan Crown, B.A., M.A., Chicago, Illinois.
Charles Daniel Ellis, B.A., M.B.A., PH.D., New Haven, Connecticut.
David Richmond Gergen, B.A., LL.B., Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2002).
Holcombe Turner Green, Jr., B.A., LL.B., Atlanta, Georgia.
Linda Anne Mason, B.A., M.B.A., Belmont, Massachusetts (June 2004).
The Rt. Rev. Victoria Matthews, B.A., M.DIV., TH.M., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Barrington Daniel Parker, Jr., B.A., LL.B., Stamford, Connecticut.
John Ennis Pepper, Jr., B.A., M.A., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kurt Lidell Schmoke, B.A., J.D., Baltimore, Maryland.
Theodore Ping Shen, B.A., M.B.A., Brooklyn Heights, New York (June 2007).
Janet Louise Yellen, B.A., PH.D., Berkeley, California (June 2006).

The Officers of Yale University

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

Provost
Alison Fettes Richard, M.A., PH.D.

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 Development
Charles James Pagnam, B.A.

Vice President and Director of New Haven and State Affairs
Bruce Donald Alexander, B.A., J.D.

Vice President for Finance and Administration
Robert Loren Culver, B.A., M.A., M.P.A.

Faculty and Administration

Faculty Emeriti
Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., P.H.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 and Professor Emeritus of Forestry.
John Charles Gordon, PH.D., Pinchot Professor Emeritus of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
William Edward Reifsnyder, M.F., PH.D., Professor Emeritus of Forest Meteorology and Professor Emeritus of Public Health (Biometeorology).
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.
Garth Kenneth Voigt, M.S., PH.D., Margaret K. Musser Professor Emeritus of Forest Soils.

Board of Permanent Officers
Richard Charles Levin, B.LITT., PH.D., President of the University.
Alison Fettes Richard, M.A., PH.D., Provost of the University, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Environmental Studies.
James Gustave Speth, M.LITT., J.D., Dean and Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development.
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, Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, and Director of Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Graeme Pierce Berlyn, PH.D., E. H. Harriman Professor of Forest Management and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology of Trees.
Garry D. Brewer, M.S., PH.D., Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management, jointly appointed with the Yale School of Management.
William Richard Burch, Jr., M.S., PH.D., Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management and Professor at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
*Michael Roger Dove, M.A., PH.D., Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and Professor of Anthropology.
Daniel C. Esty, M.A., J.D., Professor of Environmental Law and Policy; Clinical Professor, Law School; Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy; and Director of the 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 of the Center for Industrial Ecology.
Timothy G. Gregoire, PH.D., J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., Professor of Forest Management and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Stephen Robert Kellert, PH.D., Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology and Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology.
†Robert Mendelsohn, PH.D., Edwin W. Davis Professor of Forest Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor in the School of Management.
Chadwick Dearing Oliver, M.F.S., PH.D., Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry.
Oswald J. Schmitz, M.S.C., PH.D., Professor of Population and Community Ecology, Director of Doctoral Studies, and Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Science.
John Peter Wargo, M.L.A., PH.D., Professor of Environmental Risk Analysis and Policy, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Environment and Health Initiative.

*On leave of absence, spring 2003.
†On leave of absence, fall 2002

Ladder Faculty
Benjamin Cashore, M.A., PH.D., Assistant Professor of Sustainable Forest Policy and Chair of the Program on Forest Certification.
Sheila Cavanagh, M.P.AFF., PH.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics.
Marian R. Chertow, M.P.P.M., PH.D., Assistant Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, Director of the Program on Solid Waste Policy, and Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program.
†Lisa M. Curran, M.A., PH.D., Associate Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute.
Xuhui Lee, M.S.C., PH.D., Associate Professor of Forest Meteorology and Micrometeorology.
Erin T. Mansur, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, jointly appointed with the Yale School of Management.
Kathleen McAfee, M.A., PH.D., Assistant Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development.
Peter A. Raymond, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology.
‡James E. Saiers, M.S., PH.D., Associate Professor of Hydrology.
David K. Skelly, PH.D., Associate Professor of Ecology.

†On leave of absence, fall 2002
‡On leave of absence, 2002-2003

Non-Ladder Faculty
Shimon C. Anisfeld, PH.D., Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Environmental Chemistry and Water Resources.
Ann E. Camp, M.F.S., PH.D., Lecturer in Stand Dynamics and Forest Health.
Carol Carpenter, M.A., PH.D., Lecturer in Natural Resource Social Science and Lecturer in Anthropology.
Timothy W. Clark, M.S., PH.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Wildlife Ecology and Policy.
Paul Alexander Draghi, M.A., M.A., PH.D., Director of Information and Library Systems and Lecturer in Forest History.
Gordon T. Geballe, M.S., PH.D., Associate Dean for Student and Alumni Affairs and Lecturer in Urban Ecology.
Bradford S. Gentry, J.D., Lecturer in Sustainable Investments and Co-Director of the Yale-UNDP Collaborative Program on the Urban Environment.
Reid J. Lifset, M.S., M.P.P.M., Associate Research Scholar, Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.
James R. Lyons, M.F., Professor in the Practice of Natural Resource Management.
David M. Meyers, M.B.A., PH.D., Lecturer in Forest Finance.
Florencia Montagnini, M.S., PH.D., Professor in the Practice of Tropical Forestry.
Robert Repetto, PH.D., Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development.
Thomas G. Siccama, M.S., PH.D., Professor in the Practice of Forest Ecology and Director of Field Studies.

Courtesy Joint Appointments
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 Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Michael Donoghue, PH.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Menachem Elimelech, PH.D., Professor of Environmental Engineering.
Roger Ely, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Robert Eugene Evenson, PH.D., Professor of Economics.
Jonathan Feinstein, PH.D., Professor of Economics, School of Management.
Mary Helen Goldsmith, PH.D., Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
Brian P. Leaderer, PH.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine.
William Nordhaus, PH.D., Sterling Professor of Economics.
Jeffrey Powell, PH.D., Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Alison Fettes Richard, M.A., PH.D., Provost of the University, Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor of the Human Environment, and Professor of Anthropology.
James C. Scott, PH.D., Eugene Mayer Professor of Political Science; Professor of Anthropology; and Director of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
Ronald B. Smith, PH.D., Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Yale Center for Earth Observation.
Stephen C. Stearns, M.S., PH.D., Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Christopher Timmins, PH.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
Karl Turekian, PH.D., Benjamin Silliman Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Director of the Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Robin Winks, PH.D., Randolph W. Townsend, Jr., Professor of History.

Visiting Faculty, Fellows, Adjunct Faculty, and Faculty with Primary Appointments Elsewhere
Jeff Albert, PH.D., Lecturer in Hydrology.
Xuemei Bai, PH.D., Associate Professor in the Practice of Urban Ecology.
Michael Jeffrey Balick, PH.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Studies.
Diana Balmori, PH.D., Lecturer in Landscape and Urban History.
Dale S. Bryk, M.A., J.D., Lecturer in Environmental Law.
Richard Burroughs, PH.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Coastal Science and Policy.
Douglas C. Daly, PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct).
Claire Doutrelant, PH.D., Visiting Fellow.
Faye Duchin, PH.D., Visiting Professor of Ecological Economics.
William Ellis, PH.D., Senior Fellow.
Michael Ferrucci, PH.D., Lecturer in Forest Operations.
Arnulf Grübler, PH.D., Visiting Professor of Energy and Technology.
Andrew J. Henderson, PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct).
Aban Marker Kabraji, B.S., McCluskey Fellow.
Lu Zhi, PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Wildlife Biology.
James G. MacBroom, P.E., Lecturer in River Processes and Restoration.
Scott A. Mori, PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct).
Arvid Nelson, PH.D., Assistant Professor (Adjunct).
Daniel Nepstad, PH.D., Lecturer in Tropical Ecology.
John R. Nolon, J.D., Visiting Professor of Environmental Law.
Michael Northrop, M.P.A., Lecturer in Environmental Advocacy.
Christine Padoch, PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct).
Charles M. Peters, M.F.S., PH.D., Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Ecology.
Jonathan D. Reuning-Scherer, PH.D., Lecturer in Statistics.
Robert G. Stanton, B.S., McCluskey Fellow.
Dennis W. Stevenson, PH.D., Professor (Adjunct) of Tropical Studies.
Fred Strebeigh, B.A., Lecturer in Environmental Writing.
Andrew Willard, PH.D., Lecturer in Natural Resource Policy.

Research Appointments
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.
Anne Todd Bockarie, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Frederick Herbert Bormann, M.A., PH.D., Senior Research Scientist.
David Brown, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Anthony DeNicola, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
James Grogan, PH.D., Postdoctoral Associate.
A. L. Hammett III, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
John Lenhart, PH.D., Postdoctoral Associate.
Mark McClure, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Daniel Muller, PH.D., Postdoctoral Associate.
Steven Mylon, PH.D., Postdoctoral Associate.
Ofer Ovadia, PH.D., Postdoctoral Fellow.
Linda Puth, PH.D., Postdoctoral Associate.
Joelisoa Ratsirarson, PH.D., Associate Research Scientist.
Michael A. Rechlin, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
V. Alaric Sample, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
R. Neil Sampson, M.P.A., Research Scientist.
Oliver Schabenberger, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Yajie Song, PH.D., Associate Research Scientist.
Harry T. Valentine, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Philip M. Wargo, PH.D., Research Affiliate.
Michael P. Washburn, PH.D., Research Scholar.

Center and Program Staff
Monica Araya, M.E.M., Project Director, Sustainable Americas, Yale Center for Environmental Law.
Heather Crawford, B.A., M.S., Connecticut Sea Grant College Program.
Amity Doolittle, PH.D., Director, Tropical Resources Institute, and Lecturer in Resource Access and Development.
Gary Dunning, B.S., M.F., Executive Director, Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry.
David Ellum, M.F., Coordinator, School Forests.
Alexander Evans, M.F., Coordinator, School Forests.
Edward Gordon, M.S., PH.D., Assistant Editor, Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Tom Luben, M.S., Research Associate, Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Megan Mattox, B.S., Director, Program on Landscape Management Systems.
Martha McCormick Smith, M.F.S., Program Director, Coastal and Watershed Systems.
Colleen Murphy-Dunning, M.S., Program Director, Urban Resources Initiative, and Assistant in Instruction.
P. Christopher Ozyck, B.S., Greenspace Coordinator, Urban Resources Initiative.
Sonja Plesset, B.A., Administrative Associate, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Michelle Portlock, B.A., Program Coordinator, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Barbara Ruth, M.PHIL., Center Administrator, Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Sabrina Spatari, M.S.E., Coordinator, Center for Industrial Ecology.
Robert Speed, Web Site Coordinator, Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry.
Mary Tyrrell, M.B.A., M.F.S., Publications Manager, Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry, and Director, Program on Private Forests.

Administrative Staff
Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant, Student Services.
Elisabeth Barsa, B.A., Senior Administrative Assistant, Doctoral Program.
Jane Beamon, Senior Administrative Assistant, Development Office.
Susan Rae Bolden, M.S., Research Assistant, Greeley Lab.
J. Alan Brewster, B.A., M.P.A., Associate Dean for Management and Resources.
Josephine Brown, B.S., Administrative Assistant.
Sandra Brown, Financial Assistant.
Jane Coppock, M.E.S., PH.D., Assistant Dean and Editor of the F&ES Bulletin Series.
Irene Courtmanche, Senior Administrative Assistant.
David DeFusco, B.S., Director of Communications.
Ellen Denny, M.F.S., Research Assistant.
Maureen A. Devlin, A.S., Registrar and Director of Student Affairs.
Carolyn T. Falls, B.A., Director of Financial Aid.
Cynthia Figueroa, Office Assistant, Business Office.
Alex Finkral, M.F., School Forest Manager.
Rachel Futrell, Mailroom Assistant.
Eugenie Gentry, B.A., Development Officer.
Jack A. Gold, M.A., Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer, Development Office.
Melissa Goodall, M.S., Senior Administrative Assistant.
Florence Grandelli, Assistant Business Manager.
Amanda Krug, B.S., Coordinator of Recruiting and Operations.
Jennith Liner, Administrative Assistant.
Carmela Lubenow, Financial Assistant.
Emly McDiarmid, M.F.S., Director of Admissions.
William Moroz, Computer & Information Systems Support Specialist.
Stanton C. Otis, Jr., M.ED., Director of Career Development.
Shiva Prasad, B.S., Computer & Information Systems Support Specialist.
Ann Prokop, M.A., Administrative Assistant.
Frederick E. Regan, B.A., Chief Development Officer.
Constance L. Royster, B.A., J.D., Associate Director of Development.
Elnora Russell-Bell, B.S., Senior Financial Assistant.
Kathleen Schomaker, M.E.S., Alumni/ae Affairs Officer.
Margaret M. Seca, Administrative Assistant.
Rosanne Stoddard, Senior Administrative Assistant.
Rosemary Teodosio, Senior Administrative Assistant.
Thomas Tuscano, M.B.A., Director of Finance and Administration.
Ronald J. Ward, Assistant Facilities Manager.
Charles R. Waskiewicz, M.P.I.A., Assistant Business Manager.
Michèle Whitney, B.A., Coordinator, Development Office.

Henry S. Graves Memorial Library
Florence Johnson, B.S., Library Services Assistant.
Suzette Reading, B.A., Library Services Assistant.

A Message to Prospective Students from Dean James Gustave Speth

Over the one hundred years since its founding, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has evolved from a professional school of forestry of ten students and two faculty to perhaps the world's finest training ground for tomorrow's environmental leaders and managers. Research and teaching efforts have expanded to include not only forestry but also a wide set of concerns involving the interactions of human societies and natural systems.

As Yale's environment school enters its second century, students and faculty alike are reflecting on its history, with a critical eye to the future. The School's goal is to provide broad-gauged professional education 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 (http://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

Mission
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

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.

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