A Typical Day
8:30 - 10:00am
Industrial Ecology
10:30am - noon
Tying Environmental Metrics
to Financial Performance
Noon - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm
Environmental Leadership and
Organizational Change (exercise)
6:00 - 8:00pm
Dinner with faculty members in
small groups at local restaurants
8:30 - 10:00am
Industrial Ecology
10:30am - noon
Tying Environmental Metrics
to Financial Performance
Noon - 1:00pm
Lunch
1:00pm - 3:30pm
Environmental Leadership and
Organizational Change (exercise)
6:00 - 8:00pm
Dinner with faculty members in
small groups at local restaurants
CURRICULUM
Changing Resources
Energy and the Future
Global Water Issues
Biodiversity
Land Use Changes
Resource Managment Exercise
The Seminar offers state-of-the-debate assessments of changing natural resource paradigms.
Should we be managing for surpluses or shortages?
Changing Markets and Demands
The Future from an Investment Perspective
Commodities, Surpluses, and Competition
Lifestyles and Populations
Environmental Economics
Demographic trends
are intricately linked with changing demands and environmental impacts. The Seminar
examines the role of economics in natural resource issuess.
Changing Environmental Management Approaches
Industrial Ecology
Environmental Management & Strategy
Environmental Leadership and Organizational Change
Certification -- Acceptance, Governance, & Legitimacy
Environmental Health and Risk
Managing Forests as a Mutiproduct Asset
Many businesses are
adopting new approaches to environmental management, from certification programs to
design for environment manufacturing. The Seminar examines management across all levels
of operations, from "Forest to Factories."
Changing Economic, Business, and Policy Environments
Environmental Sustainability
Environment and Development
Business and Environmental Policy
The Future of Technology
Environment and Law
Environmental Campaigns and Conflicts
Government's role is
narrowing, the private sector's role is broadening, and nongovernmental organizaitons,
particularly in the international arena, are increasingly important policy actors. The
Seminar offers a "next generation" view of environmental policy, business, and innovation.
Each
of these clusters is interdisciplinary, involves a blend of lecture, cases,
field trips and exercises, and is taught by a faculty selected from among
many divisions of Yale as well as outside experts.