Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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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.

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  National ecologists honor six MSU/FW scholars for innovation

  Published on April 16, 2020
  Six current or former CSIS members will be honored for an innovative 2018 sustainability paper.

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  CSIS scholar honored with Pattullo Award

  Published on March 25, 2020
  Edith Gondwe honored for her work writing about current environmental issues for publications aimed at non-scientists.

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  CSIS doctoral student scores two fellowships

  Published on March 9, 2020
  Veronica Frans earns support from two Michigan organizations.

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  Small farmers sink or swim in globalization’s tsunami

  Published on February 24, 2020
  From a synthesis of 12 cases, researchers found when smallholder farmers are connected to faraway systems, the key is to empower them to higher agency and more livelihood opportunities.

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  Grading global sustainability - Nature cover story

  Published on January 6, 2020
  The year began with a cover story by CSIS scientists showing how to assess progress in global sustainability, and inspired three opinion pieces.

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  All global sustainability is local

  Published on January 1, 2020
  In a Nature cover story, Jianguo "Jack" Liu and CSIS members use groundbreaking methods to discover sustainability, like politics, is local