Leehi Yona

ORCID: 0000-0002-8362-7313
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Research Areas
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

Stanford Medicine
2020-2022

Yale University
2018-2022

Stanford University
2019-2021

Dartmouth College
2020

Abstract The importance of greenhouse gas inventories cannot be overstated: the process producing informs strategies that governments will use to meet emissions reduction targets. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leads an effort develop and refine internationally agreed upon methodologies for calculating reporting removals. We argue these guidelines are not equipped handle task developing national most countries. Inventory vital implementing climate action, we highlight...

10.1007/s13280-019-01312-9 article EN cc-by AMBIO 2020-01-24

Colleges and universities have played a critical role in the growing social movement to divest institutional endowments from fossil fuels. While campus activism on fuel divestment has been driven largely by students alumni, faculty are also advocating their administrators for This article characterizes of reviewing signatories publicly available letters that endorse divestment. Analysis 30 signed at campuses throughout United States Canada reveals support 4550 across all major fields inquiry...

10.1525/elementa.297 article EN cc-by Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 2018-01-01

Young people are both among the generations to be most affected by climate change and critical advocates for action. In face of growing urgency surrounding crisis, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has become an important institutional framework political progress. We developed a community-based participatory action research project centered youth involved in COP negotiations. A “leverage points” approach guided our research; this paper is first time been applied...

10.1525/elementa.433 article EN cc-by Elementa Science of the Anthropocene 2020-01-01

This article draws on the perspectives of students and organizers involved in recent iterations Model Arctic Council (MAC), an experiential learning simulation designed to expand students' knowledge understanding its governance. While much discourse related simulations such as MAC emphasizes pedagogical networking benefits, this leverages participant-based ethnography argue that also affects multi-track diplomatic outcomes addition serving a site for engagement. Applying interpretive...

10.1080/02722011.2019.1570955 article EN The American Review of Canadian Studies 2019-01-02

At first, I was confused by the 17 exclamation points in subject line of email from my master's thesis committee member. But a crater formed stomach as read message. The professor wrote that he offended and disappointed our class graduation picture—an informal tradition environmental science program. Creative props are encouraged, some fellow students had held up signs “Sustainability requires social justice” “Dismantle white supremacy movement.” These issues were part why pursuing these...

10.1126/science.363.6434.1474 article EN Science 2019-03-28

In contrast to its Assessment Reports, less is known about the social science processes through which Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces methodologies for greenhouse gas emissions reporting. This limited attention problematic, as these inventories are critical components identifying, justifying, and adjudicating national-level mitigation commitments. We begin fill this gap by descriptively assessing, drawing data triangulation that incorporates ecological political...

10.1080/25741292.2021.2020967 article EN cc-by Policy Design and Practice 2022-01-05
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