Episode Summary:
In this episode we meet management science researcher Wanyi Li, with who we discuss the destruction of the natural world and dealing with the enormity of the problem. Living in times, in which our planet is facing a ghastly future of mass extinction and climate-disruption upheavals, Wanyi shares with us her vision on far-reaching changes for acknowledging and preventing the continuity of biodiversity loss and soil degradation and handling our ecosystem with care, mainly through small everyday environmental conservation oriented actions and meaningful human interventions such as the practice of afforestation.
The Speaker:
Wanyi Li is a Ph.D. candidate in operations management at Stanford University Department of Management Science and Engineering. She studies market design for environmental sustainability. In particular, she builds theoretical frameworks for contracts and incentive schemes for Payment for Ecosystem Services programs. She is a recipient of the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Prior to Stanford, she received her B.A. in Physics from Wellesley College and grew up in Xuzhou, China. She also co-leads the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative, as well as the MD4SG Environment/Climate working group.
Hosts: Farah Piriye & Elizabeth Zhivkova
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