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Gus Speth
Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environ. Studies; Author
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Dean Gus Speth on Presidential Picks & Developing Countries
With a huge environmental debt, America should be leading the global movement. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on the Environmental Citizen
Dean Gus Speth on the Environmental Citizen. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on Changing Education for the Environment
Increasing social inequality erodes democracy. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on the Influence of lobbyists
Corporate executives are sometimes good people caught in a bad system. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Dean Gus Speth on an Environmental 100-Day Initiative for the next President
We have already gone through a threshold we should not have passed. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth answers Is Climate Change a Human Rights Issue?
Development is no longer freedom. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on the Efficacy of the Cap and Trade System
Cap and trade legislation is in Congress: we will see what it looks like when it gets out. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Dean Gus Speth on the Global Institutions and the Environment
We need a global environment organization with the clout of the WTO. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on China and the Environment
Capitalism at its rawest. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth on Empowering Citizens
Without wise leadership, even a crisis would not lead to effective action. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Dean Gus Speth on Capitalism and the Environment
The entire capitalist system is outmoded. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Dean Gus Speth on Economic Growth and Disaster
The fundamental dishonesty of pricing. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Business & Economics
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Dean Gus Speth on the Environmental Movement
Learning how to swim with the current, not always against it. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth Looks Back on His Career
Forty years of environmental advocacy. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
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Dean Gus Speth and The Bridge at the Edge of the World
We’re on the verge of losing the planet of our children and grandchildren. Read More
May 16, 2008 | In Environment
James Gustave "Gus" Speth, is the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental PolicyFrom 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Insti-tute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council.Throughout his career, Dean Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President’s Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet Prize. Publications include The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment; Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment; and articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Environmental Science and Technology, the Columbia Journal World of Business, and other journals and books.
