A blog written by Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman and Erb Student, Jenna White was featured by Andrew Revkin, in the New York Times Op-Ed. The blog discussed the framing of climate change as a moral issue. Read "The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral...
Results for research on: Climate
Institutional Theory and the National Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
By: Andrew Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings Published in Organization & Environment, March 2015 Abstract: This review article summarizes some of the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the domain of organization and the natural environment...
Sustainability Cases Attract Global Audience
Sustainability Cases Attract Global Audience Students at U-M and other top universities, including Northwestern University, University of Virginia and University of California, Berkeley, are benefiting from a substantial and growing catalog of Erb branded case studies...
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate By: Graham Sustainability Institute Education Director and Former Erb Faculty Director, Andrew Hoffman Stanford University Press, 2015 Book description: Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is...
10 Weeks of Cows: A Sustainable Future in the Brazilian Cattle Sector
A country of vast natural wealth, a roller-coaster economy and one of the most romanticized cultures on Earth, Brazil has assumed a significant role in the complex arena of global finance and politics. It is home to over 203 million human residents, but they are...
Urban Policy and Planning in a Climate Constrained World: The Development of a Climate Action Plan in Detroit
by Jill Carlson, Jenny Cooper and Marie Donahue Cities across America and around the world are feeling the impacts of climate change, and in their long-term planning efforts should be incorporating climate change—both reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and...
Ross Student Team Wins the GE Experienced Commercial Leadership Program Midwest Case Competition
On Friday, November 7th, a Ross team consisting of first year Ross student Thiago Gdikian, and second year Erb students Nate Underwood, Pavel Azgaldov, and John Serron won the 2014 GE Experienced Commercial Leadership Program Midwest Case Competition. The case...
The Cultural Schism of Climate Change: How Science Takes a Backseat to Identity Politics in the U.S.
Erb Faculty Director, Andrew Hoffman, continues to inform the debate on climate change communication in this new Stanford University blog post. Read it online
Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman unpacts his and John Ehrenfeld's analysis of the fourth wave in the sustainability movement: Systems Thinking. Read more about Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability
What’s in a Word? Politics of “Climate Change”
Andy Hoffman, Faculty Member of the Erb Institute and John Flesher, Environmental Reporter from the Associated Press discuss the politics of climate change and how people, communities and companies are approaching the subject and it's significance. Listen to the...