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Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)

Director: Peter Vitousek, Biology

Associate Director: Helen J. Doyle

Faculty: Nicole Ardoin (Education, Woods Institute for the Environment), Kevin Arrigo (Environmental Earth System Science), Kenneth J. Arrow (Economics, emeritus), Gregory Asner (Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution), Shilajeet Banerjee (Mechanical Engineering), William Barnett (Business), Sally M. Benson (Energy Resources Engineering, Global Climate and Energy Program), Barbara Block (Biology), Alexandria Boehm (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Carol Boggs (Biology), Jef Caers (Energy Resources Engineering), Ken Caldeira (Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution), Margaret Caldwell (Law), Page Chamberlain (Environmental Earth System Science), Joshua Cohen (Political Science), Lisa Curran (Anthropology, Woods Institute for the Environment), Gretchen C. Daily (Biology), Jennifer Davis (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Woods Institute for the Environment), Noah Diffenbaugh (Environmental Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment), Rodolfo Dirzo (Biology), Robert B. Dunbar (Environmental Earth System Science), William H. Durham (Anthropology), Anne Ehrlich (Biology), Paul Ehrlich (Biology), Gary Ernst (Geological and Environmental Sciences, emeritus), Walter Falcon (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, emeritus), Scott Fendorf (Environmental Earth System Science), Christopher B. Field (Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution), Martin Fischer (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Zephyr Frank (History), David Freyberg (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Oliver Fringer (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Margot Gerritsen (Energy Resources Engineering), Steven Gorelick (Environmental Earth System Science), Lawrence Goulder (Economics), Elizabeth Hadly (Biology), Ursula Heise (English), Thomas Heller (Law), Henning Hillmann (Sociology), Dominique Irvine (Anthropology), Mark Jacobson (Civil and Environmental Engineering), James Holland Jones (Anthropology, Woods Institute for the Environment), Terry Karl (Political Science), David Kennedy (History), Donald Kennedy (Biology, emeritus), Herve Kieffel (Management Science and Engineering), Jeffrey Koseff (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Woods Institute for the Environment), Anthony Kovscek (Energy Resources Engineering), Eric Lambin (Environmental Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment), Raymond Levitt (Civil and Environmental Engineering), David Lobell (Environmental Earth System Science), Richard Luthy (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Gilbert M. Masters (Civil and Environmental Engineering, emeritus), Pamela Matson (Dean, School of Earth Sciences), Douglas McAdam (Sociology), Monica McDermott (Sociology), Lynn Meskell (Anthropology), Fiorenza Micheli (Biology), Grant Miller (Medicine), Stephen Monismith (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Harold Mooney (Biology), Rosamond Naylor (Environmental Earth System Science), Leonard Ortolano (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Stephen Palumbi (Biology), Erica Plambeck (Business), Dariush Rafinejad (Management Science and Engineering), Walter W. Powell (Education), Thomas N. Robinson (Medicine), Terry L. Root (Woods Institute for the Environment), Debra Satz (Philosophy), Lee Schipper (Precourt Energy Efficiency Center), Stephen H. Schneider (Biology), Gary Schoolnik (Medicine), Richard Scott (Sociology), James Sweeney (Management Science and Engineering, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center), Barton Thompson (Law, Woods Institute for the Environment), Shripad Tuljapurkar (Biology), Peter Vitousek (Biology), Michael Wara (Law), Jeremy Weinstein (Political Science), John Weyant (Management Science and Engineering, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center), Richard White (History), Mark Zoback (Geophysics)

Senior Lecturer: Julie Kennedy

Lecturers: Stan Christensen, Thomas Hayden, Michael Mastrandrea, Veena Srinivasan

Program Offices: Yang and Yamazaki (Y2E2) Building, Suite 226

Mail Code: 4210

Phone: (650) 723-6117

Email: nelsondn@stanford.edu

Web Site: http://e-iper.stanford.edu

Courses offered by the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources are listed under the subject code IPER on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses web site.

The Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) is designed to create interdisciplinary scholars and leaders to address the world's most challenging environmental and sustainability issues. E-IPER students combine academic disciplines, including natural and earth sciences, engineering, economics, humanities, social sciences, law, health, policy, and business, to yield new insights and novel solutions to urgent global problems, such as energy use, climate change, food security, freshwater availability, depletion of ocean resources, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

E-IPER offers a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources and, for students currently enrolled in Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, and School of Medicine, a joint degree consisting of an M.S. in Environment and Resources in combination with their professional degree. Both E-IPER's Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are interdisciplinary, giving students exposure to environmental and sustainability issues and insight into new knowledge, technologies, and policies to help solve these problems. Within the guidelines of their respective degrees, E-IPER students select classes offered in all seven schools of the University.

Through their original research and their work in policy and industry, E-IPER students address issues such as the science and policy of global climate change, regional food security, the mapping and valuation of ecosystem services, the development of new energy technologies, the effects of agricultural intensification and other land use changes, and conservation finance. For additional information about E-IPER students, see http://e-iper.stanford.edu/students.

E-IPER's affiliated faculty members come from all seven Stanford schools. Collectively, they represent an extraordinary diversity of environment and sustainability interests and breadth of research and policy approaches. More information about individual faculty can be found at http://e-iper.stanford.edu/Faculty. More details about Stanford's interdisciplinary environmental research and policy work generally can be found on the Woods Institute for the Environment's web site, http://woods.stanford.edu.

Graduate Programs in Environment and Resources

The University's basic requirements for the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are discussed in the "Graduate Degrees" section of this bulletin. The E-IPER Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are guided by comprehensive requirements created with faculty and student input and approved by E-IPER's executive committee. To access the current Ph.D. and M.S. degree requirement documents, see http://e-iper.stanford.edu/requirements.

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