Associate Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, Director of the Program on Solid Waste Policy, & Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program

Marian Chertow is associate professor of industrial environmental management and has been director of the industrial environmental management program at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies since 1991. Her research and teaching focus on industrial ecology, business/environment issues, waste management, and environmental technology innovation. Primary research interests are: (1) the study of industrial symbiosis involving geographically based exchanges of materials, energy, water and wastes within networks of businesses; (2) the potential of industrial ecology in resource-poor, emerging economies; (3) the application of innovation theory to the development of environmental and energy technology.

Prior to Yale, Professor Chertow spent ten years in environmental business and state and local government including service as president of the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority charged with developing a billion dollar waste infrastructure system for the state. She is a frequent international lecturer and has testified on waste, recycling and other environmental issues before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Professor Chertow is on the editorial board of BioCycle Magazine and the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Council of the International Society of Industrial Ecology, the advisory board of Soltage, Inc., a solar energy start-up, and was a charter advisory board member of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. Professor Chertow serves on the founding faculty of the masters of science in environmental management program at the National University of Singapore where she teaches "Business and Environment" and is a visiting professor at Nankai University's National Center for Innovation Research on Circular Economy in China.

Achievements and Awards
Ministry of National Development, Singapore, $300,000, "Planning and Development for Sustainable High Density Living: Urban Metabolism Studies," 2009-2012

Rice Family Foundation Asia Environmental Fund, $200,000, "Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries," 2008-2011

Hawai’i Community Foundation, $82,720, "Waste and Material Flows on Oahu: An Industrial Ecology Approach," 2008

Contract award from United Technologies Corporation, $9,000. "Firm Competitiveness and Regional Sustainability," 2007

McMillan Center for International and Area Studies Faculty Research Grant – Yale Univ. $5,000, "Spontaneity and Central Planning: Organizing Industry in China," 2007

Selected Books
Thinking Ecologically: The Next Generation of Environmental Policy (with D.C. Esty, ed.), Yale University Press, 1997; Chinese translation 2004

Selected Articles
"Dynamics of Geographically Based Industrial Ecosystems." Chapter in The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems, (with M. Ruth and B. Davidsdottir, eds.) Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, England, 2009

"Climate Stabilization Wedges in Action: A Systems Approach to Energy Sustainability for Hawaii Island" (with J. Johnson) Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 43, No. 7, 2234–2240, 2009

"Quantifying Life Cycle Environmental Benefits from the Reuse of Industrial Materials in Pennsylvania" (with M. Eckelman), Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 43, No, 7, 2550-2556, 2009

"Industrial Symbiosis in Puerto Rico: Environmentally Related Agglomeration Economies" (with W. Ashton, and J. Espinosa), Regional Studies, Vol. 42, No. 10, 1299-1312, 2008

"Industrial Ecology in a Developing Context," in Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, (with C. Clini, I. Musu, M. Gullino, eds.) Springer, 2008

"Uncovering’ Industrial Symbiosis," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 11, No.1, 2007

"Quantifying Economic and Environmental Benefits of Co-located Firms" (with D.L. Lombardi), Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 39, No. 17, 6535 –6541, September, 2005

"An Island Approach to Industrial Ecology" (with P.J. Deschenes), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 47, No. 2, 201-217, March, 2004

"The IPAT Equation and Its Variants: Changing Views of Technology and Environmental Impact," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 13-29, 2001

"Industrial Symbiosis: Literature and Taxonomy," Annual Review of Energy and Environment, Vol. 25, 2000

Education
PhD Yale University, 2000
MPPM Yale School of Management, 1981 
BA Columbia University, magna cum laude, 1978