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About YCELP

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy seeks to advance cutting edge environmental thinking and policy analysis so that decision-making in the public, business, community, and personal realms promotes sustainability.

More specifically, the Center seeks to:

• Train future environmental leaders by encouraging innovative thinking and rigorous analysis.
• Identify pressing environmental problems and advance effective policies, strategies, and decision-making tools in response.
• Move the environmental debate beyond political and sectoral boundaries to enable integrated approaches to problem-solving.
• Identify scientific and technological advances that can ease uncertainty and respond to the complexity of environmental protection.
• Cultivate a greater understanding of stakeholder attitudes, values, and behavior toward environmental policy choices and how these diverse perspectives affect policy outcomes.

About CIESIN

Center for International Earth Science Information Network
CIESIN's mission is to provide access to and enhance the use of information worldwide, advancing understanding of human interactions in the environment and serving the needs of science and public and private decision making.

The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was established in 1989 as an independent non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand the changing relationship between human beings and the environment. In 1998, CIESIN became a center within the Columbia University Earth Institute. From its offices at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus in Palisades, New York, CIESIN continues to focus on applying state-of-the-art information technology to pressing interdisciplinary data, information, and research problems related to human interactions in the environment.

Authors

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Yale University

http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter

Jay Emerson, Principal Investigator
Daniel C. Esty, Director
Angel Hsu, Project Director

Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University

http://ciesin.columbia.edu

Marc A. Levy, Deputy Director
Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Associate
Valentina Mara, Research Associate
Malanding Jaiteh, GIS Specialist

In collaboration with

The World Economic Forum

The Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

 

Expert Contributors

Thorsten Arndt Pan European Forest Council Mark Ashton Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Sandra Baptista Columbia University Rahmalan bin Ahmad Technological University of Malaysia Bastian Bertzky UN Environment Program-World Conservation Monitoring Centre Charles Besancon UN Environment Program-World Conservation Monitoring Centre Alex Blackburn International Energy Agency Jennifer Blanke World Economic Forum Matthias Bruckner UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Edwin Castellanos Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Aaron Cohen AGI Health Effects Institute Thomas Damassa World Resources Institute Winston Dang Republic of Taiwan Vinay Dharmadhikari Government of India John Dixon World Bank (Former) Petra Doll Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Gehan El-Sakka Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency Jill-Engel Cox Battelle Memorial Institute Balazs Fekete City University of New York

Andres Gomez American Museum of Natural History Yasmine Fouad Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency Jennifer Gee University of Victoria Andres Gomez American Museum of Natural History Matt Hansen University of Maryland Gye-yeong Hwang Korean Ministry of Environment Lloyd Irland Yale University Hoi-Seong Jeong Asian Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (AIEES) Hye-Jin Jung Asian Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (AIEES) Bruno Kestemont Statistiks Belgium Chan-Kook Kim Asian Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (AIEES) Ki-Ho Kim Asian Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (AIEES) Kristin Kleisner University of British Columbia Steve Morse University of Surrey John O’Conner OconEco Thomas Parris iSciences – New England Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia Carmen Revenga The Nature Conservancy Phil Ross Statlogic

Research Staff

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy

William E. Dornbos, Associate Director
Ysella Edyvean, Program Manager
Susanne Stahl, Communications Associate

Research Assistants
Eliza Cava
Gang Chen
Diana Connett
Laura Johnson
Ainsley Lloyd
Jing Ma
Anuj Patel
Noah Walker
Dylan Walsh
Xiao Yang
Wanting Zhang

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