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 - When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm

    When Imperatives Collide: The 2003 San Diego Firestorm

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    Publication Date: October 31, 2005

    In October 2003, a confluence in southern California of low humidity, dead vegetation, and Santa Ana winds created the conditions for a firestorm--multiple fires that burned for some two weeks, scorched hundreds of thousands of acres, destroyed...

  • Teaching Case - EDM (Energie du Mali)

    EDM (Energie du Mali)

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    Publication Date: September 29, 2005

    In the spring of 2005, the government of Mali was negotiating major changes in the concession of Energie du Mali (EDM), the private firm that operated Mali's electricity and water services. The negotiations were being watched anxiously by the...

  • Teaching Case - The Struggle over Smart Growth in New Jersey (Epilogue)

    The Struggle over Smart Growth in New Jersey (Epilogue)

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    Publication Date: April 01, 2005

    This epilogue accompanies the case 1791.0. The idea of "smart growth", broadly defined as concentrated, urban-style new development that limits "sprawl" and thus preserves woodlands and other open space, has long appealed to city planners and...

  • Teaching Case - The Struggle over Smart Growth in New Jersey

    The Struggle over Smart Growth in New Jersey

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    Publication Date: April 01, 2005

    The idea of "smart growth," broadly defined as concentrated, urban-style new development that limits "sprawl" and thus preserves woodlands and other open space, has long appealed to city planners and environmentalists. In practice, however, it...

  • Teaching Case - Discovery in the Amazon

    Discovery in the Amazon

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    Publication Date: June 01, 2004

    In a world of increasingly fluid boundaries, public and private managers often face ethical challenges that cross familiar geographical and cultural lines. This disguised case recounts the experience of a chemical engineer from Brazil who...

  • Teaching Case - The Ad Hoc Conference and Sammy Sockeye

    The Ad Hoc Conference and Sammy Sockeye

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    Publication Date: November 01, 2003

    When a career public employee in a research division of the US Forest Service gets a call from a lobbyist for a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, he finds himself confronting an opportunity of which he's not sure it's right to avail...

  • Teaching Case - Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

    Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

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    Publication Date: October 01, 2003

    Thirty years after its founding in 1973, New York City's Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) found itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit, church-related organization that had long-provided tenants with assistance in renovating abandoned...

  • Teaching Case - Arsenic in Drinking Water

    Arsenic in Drinking Water

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    Publication Date: January 22, 2003

    In January 2001, on the last day of the term of President William Clinton, the US Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) had reduced the maximum permissible level of arsenic in drinking water from 50 to 10 parts per billion (ppb)...