Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

• Rethinking China's new great wall

  Published on November 21, 2014
  China’s position as the world’s second largest economy is largely due to its rapid economic growth in the coastal region, which comprises only 13% of China’s total land area, yet contributes 60% of the GDP

• Pandas, Plants, and People

  Published on November 20, 2014
  Our synthesis shows that many human factors, including socioeconomic and demographic, together with other factors (e.g., projected global climate change), exhibit reciprocal interactions with pandas and the plant species that comprise their habitat.

• Artisanal fisheries and NTZs in Nabq, Egypt: effect on gleaned molluscs and reef top benthic assemblages

  Published on November 11, 2014
  To assess the effects of these NTZs on gleaned molluscs and on the reef top benthic assemblages, a survey of edible molluscs was undertaken within NTZs boundaries, and in four adjacent fished areas.

• Monitoring of South Sinai coral reefs: influence of natural and anthropogenic factors

  Published on November 11, 2014
  To monitor any impacts to coral reefs related to the exponential growth of tourism in the South Sinai region of the Egyptian Red Sea, nine stations were established at key reef sites over 2002–2003.

• Exploratory coral reef assessment of the offshore islands of the Egyptian Red Sea

  Published on November 11, 2014
  An exploratory survey of five offshore islands in the Egyptian Red Sea has been undertaken to evaluate the importance of natural resources in terms of biodiversity and serve as baseline study.

• How trophic interactions can cause second-order effects of marine reserves

  Published on November 11, 2014
  The effects of marine reserves on fish populations may be more complex than previously thought with trophic interactions important in structuring populations.

• Remote sensing support for hypothesis of sustainable tourist valorisaion and fruition of the Southern Sinai National Parks (Red Sea, Egypt)

  Published on November 11, 2014
  The Sinai Peninsula is one of the most important tourists’ magnets for the sacred Shrines (St Katherine Monastery) and ecologically-valued landmarks (the coral of Aqaba). The most interesting flora and fauna are not terrestrial, but aquatic.

• Geomorphosites of the National Parks of Ras Mohammed: hypothesis of sustainable tourist appraisal and fruition of the southern Sinai ( Red Sea, Egypt)

  Published on November 11, 2014
  Ras Mohammed National Park is an important ecological, economic, social and cultural asset for Egypt and beyond.

• An approach for aggregating upstream catchment information to support research and management of fluvial systems across large landscapes

  Published on October 31, 2014
  This paper outlines an approach to solve these challenges by building a database and applying an algorithm to gather upstream landscape information for digitized stream networks.

• Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

  Published on September 12, 2014
  Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge.

• Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China

  Published on August 20, 2014
  We compiled a multifaceted dataset to quantify coastal trends and examine the role of economic growth in China’s coastal degradation since the 1950s.

• Great Lakes Fisheries Policy & Management

  Published on August 20, 2014
  This book offers an informed look at the Great Lakes fisheries and their ecosystems, as the contributors examine both the threats they have faced and the valuable opportunities they provide for basin citizens and industries.

• Future of Fisheries: Perspectives for Emerging Professionals

  Published on August 19, 2014
  This book bridges a vital gap in our field by using mentoring vignettes to advise young fisheries professionals on how to achieve success as a fisheries professional and on what concepts will be relevant for the future of the fisheries profession.

• A National Assessment of Stressors to Estuarine Fish Habitats in the Contiguous USA

  Published on August 8, 2014
  Estuaries provide vital habitat to a wide variety of fish species, so understanding how human activities impact estuarine habitats has important implications for management and conservation of fish stocks.

• Fractally deforested landscape: Pattern and process in a tri-national Amazon frontier

  Published on July 18, 2014
  Forest clearings in the Amazon are expanding along roads and are enhanced by the associated expansion of human settlements

• Information Flow in Fisheries Management: Systemic Distortion within Agency Hierarchies

  Published on July 17, 2014
  The early to mid-1970s provided some of the best Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) fishing of the last century in Oregon, in large part a function of productive ocean conditions and a booming hatchery system.

• Synthesis in land change science: methodological patterns, challenges, and guidelines

  Published on July 9, 2014
  To understand the causes and consequences of these changes, land change science (LCS) draws on a wide array synthetic and meta- study techniques to generate global and regional knowl- edge from local case studies of land change.

• Protecting Lemurs: Madagascar's Forests

  Published on May 20, 2014
  In their policy forum "Averting Lemur Extinctions Amid Madagascar's Political Crisis" (21 February, p. 842), C. Schwitzer and colleagues make an impassioned pleas for emergency action to save Madagascar's lemurs.

• RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE IN AN URBAN ERA - Significance of Telecoupling for Exploration of Land-Use Change

  Published on April 22, 2014
  Land systems are increasingly infl uenced by distal connections: the externalities and unintended consequences of social and ecological processes which occur in distant locations

• RETHINKING GLOBAL LAND USE (BOOK CHAPTER) -- Applications of the Telecoupling Framework to Land-Change Science

  Published on April 22, 2014
  Over the past two decades, progress has been made in understanding and predicting land-use change in specifi c places, using frameworks such as coupled human-natural systems, coupled human-environmental systems, or coupled social-ecological systems