 | James Gustave Speth |
James Gustave Speth, the newly named Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy, is dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a renowned environmental leader.
Speth's areas of interest include the social ecology of conservation and development; the assessment of social and environmental change; global change science and policy; and policy, economics and law. He has been an adviser, consultant and leader in initiatives to combat environmental degradation, earning him a reputation as one of the world's leading environmental stewards.
In his many publications, including the books "Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment" (2004) and "Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment" (2003), Speth has emphasized a need for international action on global climate change. In 1980, as chair of the President's Council on Environmental Quality in the Carter administration, Speth was one of the first individuals to predict challenges to the global environment that are now widely acknowledged by scientists. He and other council members outlined these challenges in the Global 2000 Report.
A Yale alumnus (B.A. 1964 and J.D. 1969), Speth joined the faculty at the University in 1999. Prior to coming to Yale, he was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the U.N. Development Group from 1993 to 1999. Previously, he founded and was president (1982-1992) of the World Resources Institute, a center for policy research and technical assistance on environmental and development issues. He also served as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center (1980-1981). As a member and chair of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, Speth was President Carter's principal White House adviser on environmental affairs, with overall responsibility for development and coordination of the administration's environmental program.
Earlier in his career, Speth was senior attorney and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York City and Washington, D.C. There, he led the council's programs in energy and water.
After graduating from Yale College, Speth earned an M.Litt. in economics at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Upon graduating from the Yale Law School, he was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black.
The Yale dean has garnered many awards for his contributions to environmental conservation and policy, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Law Institute and the Blue Planet Prize, which is presented by the Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation. His other honors include awards from the National Wildlife Federation, the U.N. Environment Program, the Keystone Center, the Natural Resources Council of America, the Society for International Development, the Alliance for United Nations Sustainable Development Programs, the International Association for Impact Assessment and the governments of Senegal and Morocco. He has also received several honorary degrees from U.S. universities.
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James Gustave Speth named
Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor
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