Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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  Scientists advocate breaking laws – of geography and ecology

  Published on February 2, 2021
  All that’s local is a lot more global, and scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away.

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  Scientists to global policymakers: treat fish as food to help solve world hunger

  Published on January 18, 2021
  Fish provide 17% of the animal protein consumed globally and are rich in micronutrients and essential fatty acids. In Ambio experts argue seeing fish in a food system perspective.

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  Ships take environmentally friendly path

  Published on January 11, 2021
  Ships passing through the Aleutian Islands are heeding advisories to stay further from shore for safety.

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  Pandas’ popularity ‘umbrella’ not protecting neighbors

  Published on January 4, 2021
  Doubt is cast on the long-held hope that the conservation protections granted pandas and other adored threatened species extended to their wildlife neighbors, calling for broader conservation efforts.

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  Addressing humans’ voracious consumption of nature

  Published on December 15, 2020
  In a collection of essays by leaders is sustainability sciences curated by the UK's Royal Society, Jianguo "Jack" Liu links global appetites to biodiversity loss

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  Journal seeks telecoupling framework applications

  Published on December 14, 2020
  A special issue in an international journal invites articles on soil conservation and environmental sustainability. Deadline: April 30.

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  Farms, tables and revealing vast impacts between and beyond

  Published on November 17, 2020
  A unique study in Nature Communications examines how food, energy, water and greenhouse gases create a vast front in the battle to feed the planet.

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  Li heads for the clouds with cyber fellowship

  Published on November 11, 2020
  CSIS's Yingjie Li named an MSU Cloud Computing Fellow

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  Telecoupling gains entry in new encyclopedia

  Published on October 29, 2020
  The telecoupling entry in The International Encyclopedia of Geography gives background on the concept, illustrates the framework that helps understand telecoupling, and provides example applications of the concept and framework

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  Shocking biodiversity decline more than one-solution crisis

  Published on October 22, 2020
  MSU sustainability scientist Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of an international team of scientists analyzing new goals for nature in a United Nations effort published in Science Magazine.

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  Networks, clusters and how global meat markets tick

  Published on October 7, 2020
  MSU researchers in Scientific Reports combined a network model approach with cluster analysis of meat trade in 134 countries from 1995 to 2015.

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  NSF grant to help power and empower those off grid

  Published on September 29, 2020
  A $3.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help people off the grid connect to better and wiser electricity options.

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  New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure

  Published on September 17, 2020
  Sustainability scientists at MSU find policies governing wildlife trade and tourism sometimes have more success than intended to achieve some of the UN SDGs. Yet in some cases those paths have created roadblocks and detours to success.

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  Striving and stumbling towards sustainability amongst pandas and people

  Published on September 3, 2020
  Understanding how achieving one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals spins off more SDG success – or sabotages progress on another goal across spatial and administrative boundaries.

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  Boosting builds better species models

  Published on August 7, 2020
  Adding the weight of more data makes better species models.

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  Youn accepted to marine policy fellowship

  Published on July 21, 2020
  So-Jung Youn, a PhD candidate in the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, receives a John A Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

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  Well-off countries need trade to cut environmental woes

  Published on July 13, 2020
  A first analysis of its kind shows a common problem between haves and have-nots. Trading internationally was generally good for developed countries but resulted in environmental losses for developing countries.

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  Giving GDP a needed ecological companion

  Published on June 8, 2020
  Scientists develop a measure of gross ecosystem product (GEP) that summarizes the value of ecosystem services in a single monetary metric.

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  Liu joins new sustainable agricultural intensification commission

  Published on May 28, 2020
  Jack Liu joins international commission to guide investments in agricultural innovation.

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  Fishers' livelihood measured by more than catch

  Published on April 23, 2020
  Scientists throwing shade on the idea that a fisher’s life is Zen, showing the arrangements before and after the fish takes the bait the must be considered to make effective and equitable policy about global fishing.