Environment, Energy, and Agriculture

While the cases in this section often consider local matters like land ownership, disaster recovery, or infrastructure development, the decisions made are influenced by or have important implications for issues of global concern. From climate change to sustainable energy, public health to pollution control, the scenarios presented by these cases ask students to explore the intersections of economics, government, science, and management.

  • Teaching Case - Creating a "Cyberculture" of Wilderness (Epilogue)

    Creating a "Cyberculture" of Wilderness (Epilogue)

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    Publication Date: April 01, 1999

    In 1995, as the World Wide Web began to gain sudden attention and popularity, a small group of academic and government environmentalists in Missoula, Montana believed this new medium of information dissemination could be the right sort of...

  • Teaching Case - Cleaning up the "Big Dirties": The Problem of Acid Rain

    Cleaning up the "Big Dirties": The Problem of Acid Rain

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    Publication Date: November 01, 1998

    Shortly after his 1989 inauguration, President George Bush confronts a seemingly intractable dispute which had simmered through the 1980s: how to legislate the clean-up of the so-called "big dirties", large coal-burning Midwest power plants...

  • Teaching Case - ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

    ANDA: Transforming El Salvador's Water Company

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    Publication Date: September 01, 1998

    In 1998, most officials in El Salvador recognize that the water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for managing that infrastructure are in disrepair. Without reforms, the country would be unable to provide water and sewerage...

  • Teaching Case - To Budapest and Beyond (Epilogue)

    To Budapest and Beyond (Epilogue)

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    Publication Date: September 01, 1998

    When Ukraine becomes independent following the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nation which is suddenly Europe's third most populous finds itself almost immediately caught up in high-stakes international diplomacy and...

  • Teaching Case - SAGASCO Holdings Limited

    SAGASCO Holdings Limited

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    Publication Date: August 01, 1998

    In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO Holdings Limited. This merger was potentially of enormous significance, since Santos was the...

  • Teaching Case - The US-USSR Grain Agreement

    The US-USSR Grain Agreement

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    Publication Date: August 01, 1998

    In July, 1975, top White House economic officials in the Ford Administration receive information that the Soviet Union, in the face of a disappointing grain harvest, might seek to purchase large amounts of wheat and corn from US suppliers. This...

  • Teaching Case - Low Emission Vehicles (B)

    Low Emission Vehicles (B)

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    Publication Date: January 01, 1997

    This pair of cases tells the story of how a group of Northeastern states, U.S. carmakers, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency struggled over how to implement a landmark federal clean air mandate: the introduction of low and...