Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
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Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions is one of seven interdisciplinary
research institutes at Duke University
located in Durham, North Carolina
. Founded in 2005, it became the first environmental-policy-centered Institute with a Duke University affiliation.
The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions is focused on helping decision makers in business, industry, government and the nonprofit sector understand their options, anticipate their choices and make the most of opportunities for leadership in creating a more economically and environmentally sustainable future. Since its inception, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions has grown into a major nonpartisan participant in key debates surrounding climate change, the economics of limiting carbon pollution, oceans governance and coastal development, emerging environmental markets and freshwater concerns at home and abroad.
Tim Profeta is founding director. The Institute’s other program directors include Brian Murray, Jonas Monast, Linwood Pendleton
, Bill Holman, Lydia Olander, Jay Golden
and Jan Mazurek. Members of the Board of Advisors include Charles O. Holliday Jr.
, Richard Cizik
, Frances Beinecke
, William K. Reilly
, Fred Krupp
, Peter Nicholas
, Patrick F. Noonan
, and Joseph A. Stanislaw.
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....
research institutes at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
located in Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...
. Founded in 2005, it became the first environmental-policy-centered Institute with a Duke University affiliation.
The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions is focused on helping decision makers in business, industry, government and the nonprofit sector understand their options, anticipate their choices and make the most of opportunities for leadership in creating a more economically and environmentally sustainable future. Since its inception, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions has grown into a major nonpartisan participant in key debates surrounding climate change, the economics of limiting carbon pollution, oceans governance and coastal development, emerging environmental markets and freshwater concerns at home and abroad.
Tim Profeta is founding director. The Institute’s other program directors include Brian Murray, Jonas Monast, Linwood Pendleton
Linwood Pendleton
Linwood Pendleton is an American environmental economist and is the current Acting Chief Economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
, Bill Holman, Lydia Olander, Jay Golden
Jay Golden
Dr. Jay S. Golden is the Director of the Duke Center for Sustainability & Commerce at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and an Associate Professor of the Practice for Sustainable Systems Analysis at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of...
and Jan Mazurek. Members of the Board of Advisors include Charles O. Holliday Jr.
Charles O. Holliday
Charles "Chad" O. Holliday, Jr. is an American busniessman, currently the chairman of Bank of America and former Chairman, former Chief Executive Officer and a former director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company . He is the Chairman of both the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and the Business...
, Richard Cizik
Richard Cizik
Richard Cizik was the Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals and one of the most prominent Evangelical lobbyists in the United States. In his position with the NAE, Cizik's primary responsibilities were setting the organization's policy on issues and...
, Frances Beinecke
Frances Beinecke
Frances Beinecke is the current President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nonprofit conservation group, serving since 2006.She was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling...
, William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush. He has served as president of World Wildlife Fund, as a founder or advisor to several business ventures, and on many boards of directors...
, Fred Krupp
Fred Krupp
Fred Krupp is the president of Environmental Defense Fund, a United States-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group.Krupp is a graduate of Yale University with a law degree from the University of Michigan and has taught environmental law at both schools....
, Peter Nicholas
Peter Nicholas (businessman)
Peter M. Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele.Nicholas earned a B.A. from Duke University in 1964 and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Nicholas is Chairman Emeritus of the Duke Board of Trustees...
, Patrick F. Noonan
Patrick Noonan
Patrick F. Noonan is an American conservationist, and was president of The Nature Conservancy, from 1973 to 1980, and the Conservation Fund....
, and Joseph A. Stanislaw.