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The Kennedy School of Government offers several opportunities for the study of environmental policy.

Concentration in Environment and Natural Resources (ENR)
Master's students at the Kennedy School follow a prescribed set of courses based in economic policy, and then concentrate in a field, such as Environment and Natural Resources. Courses within the concentration range from environmental economics to sustainability. The two-year Master in Public Policy (MPP) culminates in the production of a Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE), a year-long faculty-supervised practicum in which Master's students work for a real-world client to conduct a major policy study.

KSG also offers a distinctive Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID), a one-year Master in Public Administration for mid-career professionals (MC/MPA) and a two-year MPA for a select number of incoming students with some professional background.

ENRP also supports an active Doctoral Program. Ph.D. candidates work closely with faculty on projects ranging from climate change research to environmental economics.

Courses to Complement Public Policy Training
In recent years, graduates who have selected to pursue a policy career have tended to hold myriad positions during the course of their professional lives. Environmental concerns are integral to many of these careers. Often, Kennedy School generalists or concentrators in other fields will take several courses in the environment and natural resources (ENR) field to widen their knowledge base.

Executive Programs
The Kennedy School also offers intensive two-week programs for senior, international and domestic professionals seeking to develop their practical knowledge of public infrastructure initiatives (Infrastructure in a Market Economy) or environmental economics (Understanding Environmental Economics)

ENRP Featured Event

Seminar
Open to the Public - Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
April 24, 2013
4:00-5:30 p.m.

Obama's Dilemma: How the Media Influence Public Debate on the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

ENRP in the News

Cristine Russell on Beate Sirota Gordon, the woman responsible for writing equal rights into modern Japan's constitution, in The Atlantic.

Henry Lee on electric vehicle charging stations in Massachusetts towns, in The Boston Globe.

Refrigerants, Naturally!, the winner of the 2011 Roy Award, strives to eliminate the greenhouse gases "you never heard of," in The Boston Globe.

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Henry Lee

Henry Lee is the Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program. Before joining the School in 1979, Mr. Lee spent nine years in Massachusetts state government as Director of the State's Energy Office.

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Featured Book

Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Summary for Policymakers

This volume is a highly topical contribution to climate policy debates that offers options, based on cutting-edge social-science research, for an international climate change regime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. It distils key findings from the Harvard Project into an easy reference for policymakers, journalists, and stakeholders.

Summer Internship Funding Available

ENRP is accepting applications for the Roy Summer Environmental Internships. Returning HKS students are encouraged to craft their own internship for a public, private, or non-profit organization abroad or in the United States.

More information on the application process can be found here.

The deadline is March 14, 2013

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William Clark

William C. Clark is the Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development and co-director of Harvard’s Sustainability Science Program.

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