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Faculty Profile: Joseph Graziano
There are few people in the world who have helped save or drastically improve as many lives as Joseph Graziano. By devoting his career to understanding the consequences of exposure to metals, he has helped strengthen historic legislation and develop critical drugs to treat lead poisoning, and he has helped roughly 100,000 people reduce their…
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Fall 2016 MSSM Curriculum and Grading Assistant Positions
The Sustainability Management program is seeking candidates for curriculum and grading assistant positions for the fall 2016 sessions. Responsibilities include updating information in Canvas, reviewing course material with the instructor, and assisting in the grading of problem sets and examinations.
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Science And Sustainability Management: 20 Years of Columbia’s Earth Institute
This fall, Columbia University’s Earth Institute will mark its 20th anniversary. There were two central ideas that animated the creation of this university-wide institute. The first was to promote basic understanding of earth system science, and the second was to apply that knowledge to decisions made by governments and businesses around the world.
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Participatory Design and Management in Housing: by Women for Women
Julia Nethero explores the shortcomings of urban low-income housing, which fall particularly on women who are responsible for the household’s well being, and how participatory design and management ameliorate those challenges.
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Environmental Peace-Building in the Middle East
The next part of our tour provided an excellent example of the challenges people working toward environmental peace-building in Israel, Jordan and Palestine face: a site that we were unable to visit.
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Dead Pool: the Depletion of a Shared Natural Resource
The Dead Sea could soon enough become a dead “pool” of sea. But perhaps there’s another alternative.
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Land and Conflict in East Jerusalem: the Role of Urban Planning
Without an urban civil culture, it is impossible to promote political and economic participation, and a non-unified Jerusalem will remain.
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Crossing Boundaries for the Environment
It is not the concept of a borderless nature that should serve as a model to facilitate cross-border dialogue and cooperation. Rather, it is that nature’s systems are interconnected and their borders are open to exchange.
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ESP Student Profile: Arina Larasati Susijo
Arina Larasati Susijo has a passion for science, and was drawn to the MPA-ESP program to take advantage of learning the science behind the environmental policy issues facing her native Indonesia and the Southeast Asian region.
Congratulations to our Columbia Climate School Class of 2026 and all of our 2026 Columbia University graduates! Learn more about our May 15 Climate School Class Day celebration. 💙 #Columbia2026 #ColumbiaClimate2026
