Environment Experts

Experts are listed alphabetically.


Paul T. Anastas Ph.D.

Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment


Field & Expertise

Environment

Green chemistry, climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, sustainability

Daniel C. Esty J.D.
  • Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy
  • Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy

Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate change policy, green chemistry

Justin Farrell Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology


Field & Expertise

Environment

Environmental politics, data science, sociology of religion, American West

Kenneth Gillingham Ph.D.

Professor of Economics, Yale School of the Environment


Field & Expertise

Environment

Green infrastructure, energy consumption, electric grid, electric vehicles

 

Matthew Kotchen Ph.D.

Professor of Economics


Field & Expertise

Environment, Social Sciences/Politics

Social Costs of Carbon, Carbon Pricing, Fossil Fuel Company Subsidies, Natural Resource Policy

Anthony Leiserowitz Ph.D.
  • Senior Research Scientist
  • Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate change, public opinion on global warming

Reid J. Lifset M.S.
  • Research Scholar, Yale School of the Environment
  • Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology
  • Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program
  • Founding Editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology

Field & Expertise

Environment

Recycling, waste management, circular economy, extended producer responsibility

Narasimha Rao Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Energy Systems, Yale School of the Environment
  • Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  • Adjunct Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment in Bangalore, India

Field & Expertise

Environment

The effects of climate change policies on vulnerable and low-income communities; Raising standards of living while also addressing environmental issues; Equity in energy transitions; Cooling the planet while not heating the planet

David Skelly Ph.D.
  • Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology
  • Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Field & Expertise

Environment

Climate change, evolution, conservation, amphibians

Julie Zimmerman Ph.D.
  • Professor of Green Engineering
  • Associate Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

Field & Expertise

Environment

Green chemistry and engineering, safer chemicals, sustainability, water quality