Environmental interactions at Harvard.

Fellowships, Grants, & Awards

for the Environment has created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across the university's academi...

Do Firms Interact Strategically? An Empirical Analysis of Investment Timing Decisions in Offshore Petroleum Production

When individual petroleum-producing Þrms make their exploration and development investment timing decisions, positive information externalities and negative extraction externalities may lead them to interact strategically with their neighbors. This paper examines whether these inefficient strategic interactions take place in U.S. federal lands in the Gulf of Mexico. In particular, it analyzes w...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Chemical Risk without Concurrent External Exposure!

Acute chemical emergencies.

From the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. (S.N.K.); the Department of Environmental Health, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (S.N.K., D.C.C.); the Pulmonary–Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (D.C.C.); and the Northeast Specialty and Rehabilitation Hospital–Center for Occupa...

The role of nutrition in mitigating environmental insults: policy and ethical issues.

'Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; 2Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; 3Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; 4Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mas...