  Ben
Cashore
Faculty Director
Email: benjamin.cashore@yale.edu
Benjamin Cashore is a Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance,
specializing in Sustainable Forest Policy, at Yale University’s
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is Director of the Yale
Program on Forest Policy and Governance and is courtesy joint appointed
(Associate Professor) in Yale’s Department of Political Science.
He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, BA
and MA
degrees in political science from Carleton University, and a certificate
from Université d'Aix-Marseille III in French Studies. He was
a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University during the 1996-1997 academic
year.
Cashore has held positions as Assistant Professor, School of Forestry
and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University (1998-2001); postdoctoral fellow,
Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Research Unit, University of British
Columbia (1997-1998), and as a policy advisor to the leader of the Canadian
New Democratic Party (1990-1993).
Cashore's recent book, Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification
and the Emergence of Non-state Authority (with Graeme Auld and Deanna
Newsom)
was awarded the International Studies Association’s 2005 Sprout
prize for the best book on international environmental policy and politics.
Published by Yale University Press in 2004, the book identifies the emergence
of non-state market driven global environmental governance, and compares
its support within European and North American forest sectors.
Cashore is also co-editor of Forest Policy for Private Forestry (with
Teeter and Zhang), CAB International; and coauthor of In Search of Sustainability:
The Politics of Forest Policy in British Columbia in the 1990s (with
George Hoberg, Michael Howlett, Jeremy Raynor and Jeremy Wilson) from
the University of British Columbia Press.
He is also author or co-author of several articles that have appeared
in Governance, Policy Sciences, the Canadian Journal of Political Science,
Business and Politics, Forest Policy and Economics, the Journal of Forestry,
Canadian Public Administration, Canadian-American Public Policy, the
Russian Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Forestry
Chronicle, as well as chapters in several edited books published by Oxford
University Press, Ashgate Press, Macmillan UK, Transaction Press, the
University of British Columbia Press, the University of Toronto Press,
CAB International, Forstbuch Press, and IUFRO.
In addition to the 2005 Sprout prize, Cashore was awarded (with Steven
Bernstein) the 2001 John McMenemy prize for the best article to appear
in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in the year 2000 for their
article, "Globalization, Four Paths of Internationalization and
Domestic Policy Change: The Case of Eco-forestry in British Columbia,
Canada."
 Connie
McDermott
Program Director & Associate Research Scientist
Email: constance.mcdermott@yale.edu
Connie McDermott is Program Director and Associate Research Scientist
for the Yale Program on Forest Policy and Governance. She has conducted
work
and research in social forestry, forest certification and forest policy
in
North and Central America, South Asia, and globally. She completed a
B.A. in Anthropology at Amherst College, an M.S. in Social Forestry at
the University of Washington, and a doctorate in Forestry at the University
of British Columbia. Her dissertation, entitled Personal Trust and Trust
in Abstract Systems: A Study of Forest Stewardship Council-Accredited
Forest Certification in British Columbia, involves an in-depth analysis
of the social dynamics of FSC’s development in the province of
British Columbia.
McDermott served as the first British Columbia Representative for the
FSC-accredited SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance, and
has participated as a social assessor in numerous FSC-accredited
certification
assessments in BC and elsewhere. She has conducted socio-economic
monitoring and research in the US, Nepal and Costa Rica and has served
as a community
forester in Nepal. Her current research focus includes international
comparative work, examining domestic, regional and global forest
policy and governance.
 Graeme
Auld
PhD Student
Email: graeme.auld@yale.edu
Graeme Auld's work activities involve research comparing certification
development in North America and Europe, and on firm level choice of
certification policy options. Graeme has conducted surveys on the perceptions
of forest companies in the US with regard to various global and national
forest certification programs. Graeme is a graduate of Auburn University
in the Graduate School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences; while there
he completed a thesis comparing how certification systems developed in
the United Kingdom, the United States Pacific Coast, and British Columbia,
Canada. Since then, he has continued his work on this topic for inclusion
in the near finished book entitled "Politics Within Markets: Regulating
Forestry Through Non-State Environmental Governance." Future work will
involve conducting interviews in Sweden and Finland and reporting on
findings explaining variability in forestry company support for forest
certification programs. In September 2002, Graeme began a one-year contract
working with the YPFC to study why firms favor one certification versus
another.
 Cristina
Balboa
PhD Student
Email: cristina.balboa@yale.edu
Cristina Balboa is a Ph.D. Student in Yale’s School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Within the university’s
Program on Forest Certification, Cristina is currently working on a project
that examines certification’s role in conservation and development
within developing countries. Prior to coming to Yale, Cristina was a
researcher at the World Resources Institute, where she worked on coastal
and marine issues in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. Specifically,
she researched the ornamental fish trade and its efforts towards sustainability
through a combination of on-the-ground capacity building, regional policy,
and certification, among other efforts.Cristina received a BA from the
University of Michigan Residential College and an MS from Johns Hopkins
University. Her undergraduate thesis on gender and development lead her
to work as a gender specialist and project sociologist in Ecuador. Her
Master’s thesis examined the United States' imports of live reef
fish for the ornamental fish trade. Because of both her past accomplishments
and the potential of her work make a lasting contribution to the way
conservation is done, Cristina was chosen to be an Environmental Leadership
Program Fellow in 2003. This two year fellowship is designed to develop
a new generation of environmental leadership characterized by diversity,
innovation, collaboration, and effective communications ---all necessities
in this new era of global and environmental complexity.
Cristina’s doctoral research examines the role of
international conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in resource
management and policymaking. Her research examines the legitimacy of
the new governance roles played by NGOs, in search of mechanisms to ensure
their accountability to resource-dependent communities.
 Kelly
Levin
PhD Student
Email: kelly.levin@yale.edu
A graduate of Yale College (B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology ‘02) and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
(FES) (M.E.M. ‘03), Kelly Levin has recently rejoined the FES community
as a PhD candidate. Before returning to Yale, Kelly was a climate policy/technical
analyst at NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management)
in Boston. As a member of their climate and energy team, she primarily
devoted her time to developing a regional greenhouse gas registry, which
will house corporate-wide voluntary emissions reports as well as track
emissions and allowances for the imminent cap-and-trade program in the
Northeast. Most passionate about climate change and biodiversity issues,
she is dedicating her work at Yale to improving global governance of
protected areas management, specifically in folding in strategies to
adapt to climate change. Kelly will be examining certification of parks
as one possible way to enhance park management of climate change impacts.
 Brian Milakovsky
Master's Student Research Assistant
Email: brian.milakovsky@yale.edu
Brian is doing research for the Program on forest trade and governance, particularly pertaining to the Russian Federation. He has traveled to the Russian Far East as a research assistant to study the effect of Chinese timber demand on Russia’s forest industry, and on the potential for forest certification in this key region. Other focus areas in Russia include the privatization of forest industry, management of high conservation value forests, and the implementation of the new Forest Code.
Brian studied forestry at the University of Maine before coming to Yale. He has worked in forest research and industry in Maine, including two summers with the Baskahegan Company, a FSC-certified timberland owner. He is a licensed intern forester in Maine, writing management plans for small woodlots. He hopes to develop this work in to a forest consulting business providing management services to landowners in north temperate and boreal forests.
 Peter Christensen
Master's Student Research Assistant
Email: peter.christensen@yale.edu
Peter is a first year master of environmental science candidate. He is interested in issues of governance of natural resources, climate adaptation, and and strategies for assessing local vulnerability. Peter has worked on these issues in the US, India, Mexico and Cuba. He is currently developing a comparison investigation of climate adaptation policy as it emerges around the world. Within our program, Peter is working on climate related policy research.
 Gabriela
Alonso
Master's Student Research Assistant
Email: gabriela.alonso@yale.edu
Gabriela Alonso is pursuing a Master of Environmental Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Gabriela has a BSc in Envrionmental Engineering from ITESO University, Mexico. Prior to arriving at Yale, Gabriela spent two years working at the National Forest Commission in Mexico, proposing strategies for the evaluation of the programs implemented by the Commission, and striving to make efficient use of the institutions’ budget. She has also worked at the State Environmental Agency of Jalisco Mexico.
 Todd Jones
Master's Student Research Assistant
Email: todd.jones@yale.edu
Originally from San Diego, California, Todd Jones was graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.A. in Political Science in 2004. His previous work and internship experience includes a research assistantship with the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), a research assistantship with Dr. Wayne Sousa at the University of California, Berkeley, three years of full-time work as an environmental scientist and environmental service line department leader with Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI), and an internship with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Todd is currently a first-year MESc student at F&ES in its Social Ecology of Conservation and Development focal area. Broadly, he intends to concentrate on climate change and energy policy, global environmental governance, environmental and development policy integration, and energy and land management.
 Arvind
Nagarajan
Student Research Assistant
Email: arvind.nagarajan@yale.edu
Arvind is an undergraduate looking to major in Economics and Political
Science. He became interested in environmental issues by working on a
project with Professor Brian Talbot of the University of Michigan on
a project on the benefits of green roofs. He hopes to gain greater knowledge
of different aspects of forest management through his research at the Yale
Program on Forest Policy and Governance.
 Irene Scher
Student Research Assistant
Email: irene.scher@yale.edu
Irene is an undergraduate in the Environmental Studies program at Yale.
She is particularly interested in forest policy, the emerging role of
the private sector in forest governance, and land protections in forest
ecosystems. She has spent the last year working for the International
Boreal Conservation Campaign under the Pew Charitable Trusts and her
undergraduate thesis is an analysis of recent land protections in
Canada's Boreal Forest. Irene hopes to continue her studies at Yale by
pursuing a masters degree from FES.
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