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James Boyce: Carbon Pricing as Property Creation
Dr. James Boyce, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses how carbon pricing - via a carbon tax or a cap-and-permit system - transforms the carbon absorptive capacity of the biosphere from an open-access resource into a form of property. Consumers would pay for their use of this scarce resource based on their carbon footprints. James asks a key question - who should own this new property and get the money: corporations, the government, or the public?
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Flourishing in a Time of Flows: What Role for Environmental Health Social Sciences?
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Gillian Galford and Friends: Vermont Climate Assessment
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The Rehabilitation of Old Havana: Challenges of a Utopia
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Measuring and Managing Resilience Under Climate Change in Northern Great Lake Forests
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Power Struggles: Social Dimensions of Electricity System Change
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Carbon Shock: Economic and Political Implications of the Revolution in Fossil Fuel Technology
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Ecological Economic Leadership
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Meeting UVM's Land Grant Mission: A Reflection on the Vermont State Climate Office
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Ecosystem Accounting in National Accounts: From the Local to the Global
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Valuing Ecosystem Services in Vermont: Flood Mitigation and The Otter Creek Wetlands
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Optimization of Environmental Conservation and Public Health
Speaker Christopher Golden comes to speak at the Gund Institute. He has PhD, MPH, and is Director of HEAL(Health & . . .
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Asim Zia: Post-Kyoto Climate Governance
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Michael Coe: Feedbacks between deforestation, climate, and hydrology in the Amazon
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Nicholas J. Gotelli: Specimen-based modeling, stopping rules, & the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker
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James Boyce: Carbon Pricing as Property Creation
Dr. James Boyce, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses how carbon pricing - via a carbon tax or a . . .
Watch Now »
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Peter Dodds: Health, Happiness, and Hahaha
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Cheryl Hanna: Connecting Gender Equality to Environmental Sustainability
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Abdon L. Schmitt: Southern Brazil Agroecology
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Lini Wollenberg: Climate Change Mitigation on Agriculture-Forest Landscapes
Dr. Lini Wollenberg discusses how agriculture and forestry contribute about one-third of anthropogenic emissions, yet . . .
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Joe Roman - Raising Whales: How Cetaceans Engineer the Oceans
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Taylor Ricketts: Mapping Marginal Values of Saturating Ecosystem Services
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Gillian Galford: Land Use Change in Tropical Agroecosystems
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Gioia Thompson: UVM Campus Sustainability Commitments
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Asim Zia: REDD+ and Foreign Direct Investments
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V. Ernesto Mendez: Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory & Action-oriented Approach
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Taylor Ricketts: Natural Capital Project
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Saleem Ali: Sustainable Pearl Farming
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Madhu Verma: Himalayan States of Indian Forests
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Chris Koliba: Dynamic Systems and Governance
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Chris Robinson: The Politics of Ecological Economics?
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Brian Kelly: Property Rights for the Future
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Andrea Castelo Branco Brasileiro: Brazilian Environmental Social Accounting Matrix
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Eric Zencey: Alternative Indicators - What Should We Be Measuring in Vermont?
This Tea addresses the outstanding issues with Vermont's Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) that we all need to think . . .
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Stuart Kauffman: Ethics
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Gary Johnson: Spatially Quantifying Ecosystem Services
Gary Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He currently works as a research . . .
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Bernardo Aguilar: Costa Rica Wetland Conservation
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Christine Vatovec: Eco/Health Impacts of End-of-Life Medicine
Christine Vatovec examines governance factors that determine the ecological and human health impacts of end-of-life medicine.
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Stuart Kauffman: The Impact of Complex Systems on Ecological Economics
Stuart Kauffman, one of the world's most eminent scientists — a founder of the field of complex systems science, . . .
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Bob Herendeen: Is a Non-Nuclear, Non-Carbon Future Possible?
This event is part of the weekly Gund Tea Series, an opportunity for affiliates of the Gund Institute for Ecological . . .
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Diane Gayer: Why Do We Build What We Build?
Sustainable mega-cities versus Vermont-scale. Join Gund Institute's own Diane Gayer to take a critical look at Masdar, . . .
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Asim Zia: Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Socio-Ecological Systems
Management of socio-ecological systems takes place amidst complex governance processes and cross-scale institutional . . .
Watch Now »
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Flourishing in a Time of Flows: What Role for Environmental Health Social Sciences?
Flourishing: thriving; prospering; term often used in describing visions of sustainability, i.e. sustainability = . . .
Watch Now » -
How Inclusive Is Inclusive Wealth?
PRESENTER: Steve Polasky TOPIC: How Inclusive is Inclusive Wealth? DATE: October 31st, 12-1pm A Production of the . . .
Watch Now » -
Gillian Galford and Friends: Vermont Climate Assessment
A Production of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, an affiliate of the Rubenstein School for Environment & . . .
Watch Now » -
The Rehabilitation of Old Havana: Challenges of a Utopia
Ulice Acosta Lanes received his undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Havana. He worked for several . . .
Watch Now » -
Greenhouse Gas Calculators: How Good Can They Get?
Meryl will discuss her work to develop methods to quantify greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in order to . . .
Watch Now » -
Developing a Dengue Early Warning System in Coastal Urban Ecuador
Emerging mosquito-borne viral diseases, such as dengue fever and chikungunya, present a major global health threat. To . . .
Watch Now » -
Measuring and Managing Resilience Under Climate Change in Northern Great Lake Forests
Some of the most dramatic climate change effects to forests may be a decline in resilience to acute disturbances. I . . .
Watch Now » -
Power Struggles: Social Dimensions of Electricity System Change
As societal expectations for electricity systems evolve, individuals and organizations have different perspectives, . . .
Watch Now » -
Carbon Shock: Economic and Political Implications of the Revolution in Fossil Fuel Technology
The development and deployment of such new extraction technologies as hydro-fracking, steam-assisted gravity drainage, . . .
Watch Now » -
Ecological Economic Leadership
The way in which we understand and articulate our place in the economy influences our behavior. Reframing to focus on . . .
Watch Now » -
Meeting UVM's Land Grant Mission: A Reflection on the Vermont State Climate Office
The Vermont State Climate Office is an AASC-recognized State Climate Office. As such, Dr. Dupigny-Giroux' mandate to . . .
Watch Now » -
Ecosystem Accounting in National Accounts: From the Local to the Global
The UN recently developed and adopted a new framework for integrating information on ecosystem services into . . .
Watch Now » -
Valuing Ecosystem Services in Vermont: Flood Mitigation and The Otter Creek Wetlands
Following Hurricane Irene, Rutland Vt experienced more severe flooding than Middlebury, which lies downstream of . . .
Watch Now » -
Optimization of Environmental Conservation and Public Health
Speaker Christopher Golden comes to speak at the Gund Institute. He has PhD, MPH, and is Director of HEAL(Health & . . .
Watch Now » -
Asim Zia: Post-Kyoto Climate Governance
In his Gund tea, Asim discusses key findings from his recent research about the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol . . .
Watch Now » -
Michael Coe: Feedbacks between deforestation, climate, and hydrology in the Amazon
Deforestation in the Amazon causes important changes in the energy and water balance by altering how incoming . . .
Watch Now » -
Nicholas J. Gotelli: Specimen-based modeling, stopping rules, & the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker
The reported rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in 2004 was one of the most exciting and controversial events . . .
Watch Now » -
James Boyce: Carbon Pricing as Property Creation
Dr. James Boyce, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses how carbon pricing - via a carbon tax or a . . .
Watch Now » -
Peter Dodds: Health, Happiness, and Hahaha
Dr. Peter Dodds, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and Director of the Complex Systems Center, UVM, . . .
Watch Now » -
Cheryl Hanna: Connecting Gender Equality to Environmental Sustainability
Cheryl Hanna, Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School, discusses violence against women in the context of both the . . .
Watch Now » -
Abdon L. Schmitt: Southern Brazil Agroecology
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot harboring more threatened and endangered species than any other . . .
Watch Now » -
Lini Wollenberg: Climate Change Mitigation on Agriculture-Forest Landscapes
Dr. Lini Wollenberg discusses how agriculture and forestry contribute about one-third of anthropogenic emissions, yet . . .
Watch Now » -
Joe Roman - Raising Whales: How Cetaceans Engineer the Oceans
Dr. Joe Roman discusses how the restoration of whales is essential in maintaining the integrity and resilience of . . .
Watch Now » -
Taylor Ricketts: Mapping Marginal Values of Saturating Ecosystem Services
Dr. Taylor Ricketts, Professor RSENR and Director of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, presents on the . . .
Watch Now » -
Gillian Galford: Land Use Change in Tropical Agroecosystems
Dr. Gillian Galford, Research Assistant Professor discusses RSENR and presents a range of her current remote sensing . . .
Watch Now » -
Gioia Thompson: UVM Campus Sustainability Commitments
Gioia Thompson, Director of the Office of Sustainability, discusses policy and action relating to the University's . . .
Watch Now » -
Asim Zia: REDD+ and Foreign Direct Investments
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V. Ernesto Mendez: Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory & Action-oriented Approach
Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary Participatory & Action-oriented Approach | PRESENTER: V. Ernesto Méndez, Gund . . .
Watch Now » -
Taylor Ricketts: Natural Capital Project
In this tea, we learn about the science, applications, and people behind the worldwide Natural Capital Project. The . . .
Watch Now » -
Saleem Ali: Sustainable Pearl Farming
Pearl farming has the potential to offer unique opportunities in terms of livelihoods and marine conservation in the . . .
Watch Now » -
Madhu Verma: Himalayan States of Indian Forests
Himalayan states of Indian Forests - CBA of Forest Diversion and Conservation and Incentives for Forest Conservation | . . .
Watch Now » -
Chris Koliba: Dynamic Systems and Governance
Governing Our Way Out: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Sustainable Development
Watch Now » -
Chris Robinson: The Politics of Ecological Economics?
What are the politics and political implications of Ecological Economics? Ecological Economics has been accused by . . .
Watch Now » -
Brian Kelly: Property Rights for the Future
Modern property rights assignments and regimes are ill-equipped to adapt to increased ecological scarcity, resulting . . .
Watch Now » -
Andrea Castelo Branco Brasileiro: Brazilian Environmental Social Accounting Matrix
The construction of an Environmental Social Accounting Matrix for the Brazilian Amazon Region is necessary, since this . . .
Watch Now » -
Eric Zencey: Alternative Indicators - What Should We Be Measuring in Vermont?
This Tea addresses the outstanding issues with Vermont's Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) that we all need to think . . .
Watch Now » -
Stuart Kauffman: Ethics
Stuart Kauffman, one of the world's most eminent scientists — a founder of the field of complex systems science, . . .
Watch Now » -
Gary Johnson: Spatially Quantifying Ecosystem Services
Gary Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Vermont. He currently works as a research . . .
Watch Now » -
Bernardo Aguilar: Costa Rica Wetland Conservation
Bernardo Aguilar is a Costa Rican who has lived and worked in the United States for a third of his life. He has . . .
Watch Now » -
Christine Vatovec: Eco/Health Impacts of End-of-Life Medicine
Christine Vatovec examines governance factors that determine the ecological and human health impacts of end-of-life medicine.
Watch Now » -
Stuart Kauffman: The Impact of Complex Systems on Ecological Economics
Stuart Kauffman, one of the world's most eminent scientists — a founder of the field of complex systems science, . . .
Watch Now » -
Bob Herendeen: Is a Non-Nuclear, Non-Carbon Future Possible?
This event is part of the weekly Gund Tea Series, an opportunity for affiliates of the Gund Institute for Ecological . . .
Watch Now » -
Diane Gayer: Why Do We Build What We Build?
Sustainable mega-cities versus Vermont-scale. Join Gund Institute's own Diane Gayer to take a critical look at Masdar, . . .
Watch Now » -
Asim Zia: Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Socio-Ecological Systems
Management of socio-ecological systems takes place amidst complex governance processes and cross-scale institutional . . .
Watch Now »