1. Interdisciplinary Programs at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Prof. Marian Chertow PIRE-NAE Meeting April 24, 2013

2. Monodisciplinary: scholars specialize in areas within the borders of their disciplines Multidisciplinary: scholars specialize in their own discipline but communicate and interact actively with scholars from other disciplines—collaboration where each participating discipline remains within traditional frameworks Interdisciplinary: integration of disciplines Transdisciplinary: interaction b/t academia and broader society Oberg, 2011

3. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies The family of Gifford Pinchot endowed the founding of Yale’s School of Forestry in 1900. Gifford Pinchot, YC 1889, was the first Chief of the US Forestry Service (1905-10) Under President Teddy Roosevelt "every stream is a unit from its source to its mouth, and all its uses are interdependent" TR and Pinchot

4. Divinity Medicine Management Law Music Drama Architecture Nursing Art Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale College 1701 Branches on the Yale Tree

5. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies As a Professional School, Yale FES seeks to provide unequalled education and training in the multiple dimensions of contemporary environmental issues toward developing solutions for a more sustainable future Kroon Hall, Yale FES

7. Integrative Framework Course: Linkages of Sustainability Profs. Graedel (IE), Seto (Geog.), Cashore (Polic Sci) The Earth system is made up of interdependent components…all of which have physical limits. Societies transform these resources into useable goods, and production and consumption cycles connect people and places across space and time. This team-taught course provides an overview of these linkages and explores their implications for applying and measuring the concept of sustainability. It examines the constraints to sustainability imposed by those linkages (e.g., the energy required to supply water), opportunities for their transformation, and challenges of implementing sustainability across complex social and cultural systems.

8. Capstone: Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research – Gupta and Chertow Question: Is “local” more “sustainable” in ag? Methodology: combined political and industrial ecology framework (MFA and qualitative research) to investigate the socio-political processes and material changes associated with re-localization of food systems in the Hawaiian Islands: through what social and physical processes are communities able to ‘re-localize’? how does re-localization change material flows of resources as well as social relations? To what environmental and social effect?

9. Catherine Lyall University of Edinburgh “academically oriented interdisciplinary research is one of the primary engines of evolution of disciplines because it is often at the boundaries between disciplines that some of the most exciting advances are made: this type of interdisciplinary research supports the evolution of disciplines.”

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11. Interdisciplinary Framework example: Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) Ostrom and Cox, 2010

12. A S TATIC V IEW OF THE SEIS F RAMEWORK – Indoor Air PollutionUrban Heat IslandRegional Water Impact & Air Polln.Global Climate Public Health & Supply Chain Risks Ramaswami et al., SEIS Framework paper’, J. Ind. Ecology 2012

13. Towards Interdisciplinarity at Yale FES NSF SEES grant: self-conscious integration of industrial and political ecology to understand the political and ecological processes underlying re- localization efforts on the islands of Molokai and the Big Island in Hawaii, and the implications for sustainability Methodology: MFA and qualitative research to examine the socio-political processes and material changes that are associated re- localization (see chart) IE and PE: already interdisciplinary fields in their own right?

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