Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

News

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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

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  Conservation’s hidden costs take bite out of benefits

  Published on December 19, 2019
  CSIS scientists show that even popular conservation programs can harbor hidden costs, often for vulnerable populations.

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  Sustainability scholars honored at commencement

  Published on December 13, 2019
  Two scholars with ties to MSU's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife will receive honorary degrees Saturday.

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  MSU a player in year’s top scientific discoveries

  Published on December 3, 2019
  Sustainability scholar Jianguo “Jack” Liu and FW assistant professor Andrés Viña were authors for a global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services that ranked as one of the year's top science discoveries.

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  MSU fisheries experts publish book of triumphs

  Published on October 17, 2019
  MSU fisheries experts compile 22 success stories of long-term conservation wins.

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  Assigning workers to new networks boosts sustainability

  Published on October 17, 2019
  Innovation comes from people in different units who have new knowledge, and a new study about conservation organizations suggests encouraging employees to think and act outside network boxes from time to time.

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  Modeling habitat that’s just right

  Published on October 14, 2019
  In this week’s Scientific Reports, Michigan State University researchers offer ways to take the guess work out of parameters.

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  Study champions inland fisheries as rural nutrition hero

  Published on September 23, 2019
  Researchers from MSU and the FAO synthesize new data and assessment methods to show how freshwater fish feed poor rural populations in many areas of the world.

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  Look at this data!

  Published on September 23, 2019
  Two Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability members tied for second place in a campus competition to translate data into a compelling visual.

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  What would Jesus do? Quite possibly, recycle

  Published on September 23, 2019
  A team of social scientists and sustainability scientists worked to peel off the layers of understanding about how Christianity and environmentalism mix.

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  Tariffs lead to creative supply chains

  Published on August 5, 2019
  MSU scholars apply a new, more holistic way to examine global agricultural trade to better understand what’s going on when a country as enormous as China develops a big appetite for soybeans.

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  Scientists defend headwater protections

  Published on May 30, 2019
  Scientists, including MSU's Dana Infante, rally to put science back at the forefront of the nation's revised protections of streams and their valuable ecosystems.

• Study scrutinizes global tourism’s push and pull

  Published on May 21, 2019
  MSU researchers are the first to analyze global tourism of 124 countries as a network using social network analysis to investigate what drives environmental and socioeconomic tourism.

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  Study scrutinizes global tourism’s push and pull

  Published on May 21, 2019
  Tourists have become international jetsetters, bringing the promise of prosperity, threats to the nature they come to experience and lots of questions about how to strike a balance. The key: What drives tourism?

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  IMPACT: Liu, Viña contributors to UN sustainability report

  Published on May 9, 2019
  Two MSU sustainability scientists contributed to a landmark United Nations report which finds an unprecedented biodiversity loss, and calls for transformative changes to balance nature conservation and economic development.