Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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  Liu elected to the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters

  Published on September 30, 2022
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu has been elected to the prestigious Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters,.

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  Portales named Lyman Briggs College Research Fellow

  Published on September 30, 2022
  Natalia Portales, a CSIS undergraduate researcher, gains support for her work on the arctic telecoupling project.

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  MSU takes inland fisheries food security to FAO event

  Published on September 28, 2022
  Drawing on work in Malawi this webinar will showcase international collaborative efforts to advance science and technological innovations in inland aquatic food systems.

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  Women's empowerment group awards fellowship to CSIS scholar

  Published on September 26, 2022
  FW PhD student Edith Gondwe receives the prestigious international fellowship from the American Association of University Women.

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  Liu accepts global award with message of hope

  Published on September 21, 2022
  Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, accepts his Gunnerus Sustainability Science Award with an address about pandas, people and hope for the future

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  Reading global catastrophes needs a new lens for sharp solutions

  Published on August 29, 2022
  If the global community doesn’t learn to spot and address the short- and long-term changes, both harm and opportunity can be unchecked. Metacoupling offers a sharper lens.

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  Spotting the human-driven snags in global sustainability quest

  Published on August 25, 2022
  A new paper in Ecology and Society shows how people's everyday lives can have significant global consequences when establishing policies to achieve sustainability.

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  Liu receives highest honor for ecological contributions “of extraordinary merit”

  Published on August 15, 2022
  The Ecology Society of America honors Jianguo "Jack" Liu as an "eminent ecologist."

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  Panda success may show up in major US/China sustainability science summit

  Published on July 25, 2022
  MSU professor's research collaborations that helped move pandas from endangered status has applications for major US-China summit.

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  CSIS contributions recognized in MSU’s top global impact in sustainable development rank

  Published on June 23, 2022
  Centers' work exploring new ways to evaluate SDG progress and leadership in global collaboration are cited as contributing to MSU's performance in Times Higher Education 2022 Impact Rankings

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  Sustainability scholar publishes on two fronts

  Published on June 14, 2022
  Emilio Moran explores sustainability at the intersection of people in a new book and journal article.

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  Global food trade research upends assumptions about how biodiversity fares

  Published on May 12, 2022
  Examining the complexities of global food trade and the impacts of biodiversity hotspots.

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  MSU scientist helps craft solutions in United Nations sand crisis report

  Published on April 27, 2022
  Sand is the most exploited natural resource in the world after water, but its use is largely ungoverned, a UN report says

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  War devastation stretches across natural world

  Published on April 25, 2022
  The Russia-Ukraine war will affect biodiversity and the environment far beyond the war zones, with implications for sustainability and well-being worldwide.

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  Mexico joins Sri Lanka in sea cucumber crime drama

  Published on April 7, 2022
  The recent collapse of Mexican sea cucumber populations underscores the urgency of damage that can come to wildlife and people when crime engulfs international trade

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  ESPP honors, supports 4 CSIS students

  Published on April 5, 2022
  Four CSIS PhD students are honored for outstanding publications and supported for their research

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  Russia’s action expands what’s defined as “local” in the Arctic

  Published on March 30, 2022
  It’s critical to understand the complexities of tightly bound actions and events of both people and nature, especially in times of crisis – most notably climate change and conflict between Russia and western countries.

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  Evaluating sustainability progress requires broad and long look

  Published on March 24, 2022
  A first look at how striving at the complexities of maki meaningful progress in critically important SDGs

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  Leading conservation scientist 2022 Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecturer

  Published on March 24, 2022
  A world-renowned conservation scientist who focuses on the need for people to be in partnership with nature to change, will deliver the 2022 Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture

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  CSIS student has The Conversation about conservation

  Published on January 6, 2022
  CSIS PhD student Veronica Frans follows up a Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper by discussing broader uses for her new ways to model habitat for creatures returning to a home it will share with people.