Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

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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.

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  Grading conservation: Which reserves defend forests?

  Published on May 7, 2019
  Lands that shelter forests have value often readily tallied by developers, but until now it’s been more difficult to prove the success of protecting those forested lands in pursuit of sustainability. That can put conservationists on the defense.

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  Grading conservation: Which reserves defend forests?

  Published on May 6, 2019
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• New book applies telecoupling framework to land-use change

  Published on May 5, 2019
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  Diving deep into water and energy trade-offs

  Published on April 30, 2019
  Two papers by Michigan State University (MSU) scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works.

• Sustainability celebrates research revolution birthday

  Published on March 27, 2019
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• Energy stealthily hitches ride in global trade

  Published on March 21, 2019
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• Quiles Delgado, Kapsar, win conservation support

  Published on February 14, 2019
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  Keeping SDGs from being a zero-sum game

  Published on February 4, 2019
  MSU scientists suggest new ways to tackle unexpected or unintended consequences cropping up on the way to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting.

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  Keeping SDGs from being a zero-sum game

  Published on February 1, 2019
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  Sustainable science amplifies the global of local

  Published on December 18, 2018
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  Liu named among most highly cited in global list

  Published on November 29, 2018
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  MSU science communicator honored by AAAS

  Published on November 21, 2018
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  Biodiversity draws the ecotourism crowd

  Published on November 7, 2018
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