Publications
Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities
Society needs a major shift in its core values to stave off an environmental crisis, warns a Yale report, Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities.
Yale Launches Online Environmental Magazine
Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of the leading Web sites for commentary and reporting on the crucial environmental issues of the day.
Book Examines Clash of Capitalism and the Environment
The environment will continue to deteriorate so long as capitalism continues to be the modern world’s economic engine, argues Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability.Doctoral Student Publications
Nicole Ardoin Ardoin, N. (In press.). Behavior Change in Free Choice Environmental Learning. In: Free Choice Learning and the Environment, ed. Falk, J, J. Heimlich and S. Foutz. Lanham: AltaMira Press. Powell, R., M. Stern, and N. Ardoin. 2006. A Sustainable Evaluation Framework and Its...
Yale Study Offers New Paradigm on Ecosystem Ecology
Predators have considerably more influence than plants over how an ecosystem functions, according to a Yale study published today in Science.Vegetation-Environment Relations of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas
Published: USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-36. 2005. The Sky Island Archipelagos of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental contain a unique array of endemic flora and fauna. Plant species composition in these elevationally restricted forests is thought to vary in relation to...Variability in Needle Morphology and Water Status of Pinus cembroides across an Elevational Gradient in the Davis Mountains of west Texas, USA
Published: Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134(2), 2007, pp. 281-288 The pinyon pines are a widely distributed group of site generalist species that dominate many of the middle to upper elevation semi-arid regions of North America. We investigated the physiological and morphological...Native Land Tenure, Conservation, and Development in a Pseudo-Democracy: Sabah, Malaysia
Published: Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 34, no 3-4, pp. 474-497 This article explores the interacting politics of native customary law, conservation, and rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on the specific details of native property rights in a rural community and state...A Hierarchical Approach for Scaling Forest Inventory and Fuels Data from Local to Landscape Scales in the Davis Mountains, Texas, USA
Published: March 12, 2007, Forest Ecology and Management 244 (2007) 1–15 This study combined hierarchical cluster analysis and classification and regression tree algorithms to quantify vegetation and fuel characteristics and to generate spatially explicit vegetation and fuels maps for forest...Environmental Controls on Dominance and Diversity of Woody Plant Species in a Madrean, Sky Island ecosystem, Arizona, USA
Published online: 13 January 2007, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 The Sky Island archipelagos of the Sierra Madre Occidental contain diverse, highly endemic, and topographically complex ecosystems, yet the local and landscape-scale controls on woody plant dominance and diversity...Drought Response of Two Mexican Oak Species, Quercus laceyi and Q. sideroxyla (Fagaceae), in Relation to Elevational Position
Published: American Journal of Botany 94(5): 809–818. 2007. To investigate the relationship between the altitudinal distribution of Quercus laceyi and Q. sideroxyla and their physiological responses to drought, we measured relative water content, water potentials, photosynthesis, stomatal...
Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
Midwestern farming has injected the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers and more carbon dioxide annually into the Mississippi River during the past 50 years, according to a study published today in Nature by researchers at Yale and Louisiana State universities.Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry
A key theme among seminal contributions to policy studies, including Baumgartner and Jones (1993; 2002), Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1993), andHall (1989; 1993), is that “external perturbations” outside of the policy subsystem, characterized by some type of societal upheaval, are critical for...Can Non-State Global Governance be Legitimate? An Analytical Framework
In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global environmental and social problems, ‘‘private’’ alternatives have proliferated, including selfregulation, corporate social responsibility, and public–private partnerships. Of the alternatives,...Turnover in an Amphibian Metacommunity: The Role of Local and Regional Factors
Ecologists have long realized that stable species richness values can mask rapid turnover in species composition. Because turnover occurs as a consequence of both local and regional processes, understanding the responsible factors provides insight on processes influencing community structure at...Amphibian Species Richness Across Environmental Gradients
These results enable us to identify the factors associated with the patterns of amphibian species richness on complex environmental gradients, and pose hypotheses concerning the mechanisms responsible. There was a clear effect of annual variation in hydroperiod on species richness; the number of...The Energy Benefit of Stainless Steel Recycling
The energy used to produce austenitic stainless steel was quantified throughout its entire life cycle for three scenarios: (1) current global operations, (2) 100% recycling, and (3) use of only virgin materials. Data are representative of global average operations in the early 2000s. The primary...Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change
In their paper Malcolm et al. (2006) use climate-warming scenarios to estimate up to 43% loss of species within biodiversity hotspots. This prediction is based on a climate-envelope approach that assumes the distribution, and hence extinction, probability of every species is predicted by climate...
New Environmental Anthropolgy Textbook Published
Faculty members Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter have just published a textbook on Environmental Anthropology, which they developed over the past half-dozen years in their advanced seminars with F&ES students, and which constitutes the basis of their new course in the undergraduate...Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment
Written by renowned experts in the field, Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment covers the sampling techniques used in ecology, forestry, environmental science, and natural resources. The book presents methods to estimate aggregate characteristics on a per unit area basis as well as on an elemental basis. In addition to common sampling designs such as simple random sampling and list sampling, the authors explore more specialized designs for sampling vegetation, including randomized branch sampling and 3P sampling.Understanding and Reaching Family Forest Owners: Lessons from Social Marketing Research
Social marketing—the use of commercial marketing techniques to effect positive social change—is a promising means by which to develop more effective and efficient outreach, policies, and services for family forest owners.The Philosophy of Qi, The Record of Great Doubts
Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714) was a prominent Japanese scholar who spread Neo-Confucian ideas and moral teachings throughout Japan. He was also known as the "Aristotle of Japan" for his studies of the natural world. Of his many writings, The Record of Great Doubts is the culmination of a lifetime of...The Ailing Invader
The nature of biological invasions prompts researchers to focus on questions of great importance: How far will a nonnative species go? How fast? And what are the consequences to native species? To crops? To us? This perspective had crystallized long before Charles Elton wrote his classic treatise...
Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Emily Enderle, editor Excerpt from Framing the Discussion, by Emily Enderle, Master of Environmental Management '07, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies It is an exciting time to be a member of the environmental movement in the United States. Large events and organizations,...
Eco-Rating System Created for Land Development
The Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines for Sustainable Land Development, published by John Wiley & Sons, provides architects, engineers, landscape architects, developers and city officials with a science-based rating system that awards either a silver, gold or platinum designation based on how well a parcel of land is developed in harmony with the natural environment.
