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Professors
King, Lenox, and Toffel, and students at Dartmouth College conceived MapEcos to support
academic research and to provide a public service to a
variety of stakeholders: managers of the facilities depicted on MapEcos, members of the communities where these facilities are
located, environmental regulators, and the general public.
MapEcos is powered by the
MapMundi Mapping Platform, created by the inspired
people at MapMundi.com
(principally Evan Tice, Chris Hughes, Loren Sands-Ramshaw,
and
Jason Reeves). Their abilities and vision helped inspire
the project as a whole. Without their amazing talents and their
generous contributions, the project would never have happened.
MapEcos is the first site to use the MapMundi platform, and was
also developed by the MapMundi team.
Harvard Business School's Research Computing Services (principally Toni
Wegner, John Galvin, and John Sheridan) provided immense support
and insight. They created the survey system that enables
companies to add data to MapEcos, and provided useful and
timely input on important design decisions. Their efforts
improved the project enormously.
John Wallace, Richard Brittain, and the rest of the Research
Computing group at Dartmouth provided their valuable knowledge
and time, not to mention the hardware which powers our site.
We gratefully acknowledge several sources of financial support for
MapEcos, including Duke University's Corporate
Sustainability Initiative and Social Science Research
Initiative, the Crane Fund for Ethical Studies (within the Allwin
Initiative for Corporate Citizenship at the Tuck School of Business
at Dartmouth), the good graces of
Tuck's Senior Associate Dean Robert Hansen (thanks Bob!), and
Harvard Business School's Division of Research and Faculty
Support. Andrew King also provided substantial support to the
project from personal funds (thanks Andy for going through
midlife crisis at just the right time).
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