Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

• Revising China's Environmental Law

  Published on July 22, 2013
  China’s Environmental Protection Law (EPL) is the main national environmental legislative framework. Yet the environmental legal system is incomplete

• Spatial Assessment of Attitudes Toward Tigers in Nepal

  Published on July 12, 2013
  Our study provides insights and descriptions of techniques to improve attitudes toward wildlife in Chitwan and many regions around the world with similar conservation challenges.

• Performance and prospects of payments for ecosystem services programs: Evidence from China

  Published on June 23, 2013
  Systematic evaluation of the environmental and socioeconomic effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs is crucial for guiding policy design and implementation

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

  Published on June 21, 2013
  We propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances.

• Nonlinear effects of group size on collective action and resource outcomes

  Published on June 14, 2013
  Using data gathered from the Wolong Nature Reserve since 1995, we examined the effects of group size on both collective action and resource outcomes while controlling for potential confounding factors.

• Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Dependence on Ecosystem Services

  Published on May 28, 2013
  Here, we propose an index of dependence on ecosystem services (IDES) system to quantify human dependence on ecosystem services.

• Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Well-Being

  Published on May 28, 2013
  To fill some of these research needs, we developed a quantitative index system to measure HWB, and assessed the impacts of an external driver – the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake – on HWB.

• Politics shapes individual choices about energy efficiency

  Published on May 20, 2013
  Addressing climate change effectively will require policy actions by both government and the private sector. However, individuals’ actions matter as well

• Effects of Global Household Proliferation on Ecosystem Services

  Published on April 19, 2013
  It is important to use ecosystem services more efficiently, turn households from consumers to producers of ecosystem services, and incorporate household proliferation into ecosystem service research and management.

• The Largest World's Fair

  Published on March 21, 2013
  Taking a look at "Science".

• Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation

  Published on March 21, 2013
  Approximately 3 billion people, half of the world's population, are still using fuelwood in their daily lives. Fuelwood collection has been recognized as an important factor in habitat fragmentation and degradation and biodiversity loss, especially in dev

• Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

  Published on March 21, 2013
  This paper provides an overview of China's water conservancy development, and illustrates the socioeconomic, environmental and ecological impacts.

• Evaluation of Ecosystem Service Policies from Biophysical and Social Perspectives: The Case of China

  Published on March 13, 2013
  China has been implementing many large-scale ecosystem service policies. This article highlights three major ones – Nature Reserve System, Natural Forest Conservation Program, and Grain-to-Green Program.

• Effects of conservation policies on forest cover change in giant panda habitat regions, China

  Published on January 22, 2013
  After long periods of deforestation, forest transition has occurred globally, but the causes of forest transition in different countries are highly variable.

• The Four Fs of Fish: Communicating the Public Value of Fish and Fisheries

  Published on December 17, 2012
  Effectively demonstrating the value of fish and the fisheries supply chain they create is as important for the future of our own profession as for the fish.

• Modelling for forest management synergies and trade-offs: Northern hardwood tree regeneration, timber and deer

  Published on November 20, 2012
  We present a forest tree regeneration, growth, and harvest simulation model developed with the express purpose of assisting managers to evaluate the impacts of timber and deer management on forest dynamics in northern hardwood forests.

• Climate-change impacts on understorey bamboo species and giant pandas in China's Qinling Mountains

  Published on November 12, 2012
  Climate change is threatening global ecosystems through its impact on the survival of individual species and their ecological functions

• Past, present and future of fishery management on one of the world's last remaining pristine great lakes: Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

  Published on November 9, 2012
  Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada supports important sport and aboriginal-subsistence fisheries and is among the last remaining pristine great lakes of the world.

• Ontogenetic shifts in morphology and resource use of cisco Coregonus artedi

  Published on November 5, 2012
  Gillraker shape and number have always been used as key diagnostic characters in coregonine taxonomy; based on the findings presented here, ontogenetic shifts should be accounted for in resulting classifications.

• Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective (2nd Edition)

  Published on October 31, 2012
  This incisive study provides a collaborative, interjurisdictional, and multi-use perspective, one shaped by the USA and Canada together as part of their shared governance of these waters.