• Estimating the potential of roadside vegetation for bioenergy production. Journal of Cleaner Production

  Published on June 25, 2015
  The Netherlands, like other European Union countries, is under intense pressure to increase its national share of energy from renewable sources in accordance with 2020 Kyoto Protocol obligations. Bioenergy in this context is especially interesting be...

• Sustainable Lighting-Retrofit Versus Dedicated Luminaires-Light Versus Power Quality

  Published on December 2, 2019
  For the next few years millions of fluorescent luminaires will become waste and will be replaced by light-emitting diodes-LED luminaires. According to the Cost European Cooperation in Science & Technology Program, the next step will be shifting from ...

• Collaboration or fragmentation? Biodiversity management through the common agricultural policy

  Published on May 1, 2017
  We argue that the current system of agri-environment management in the European Common Agricultural Policy is ineffective at conserving biodiversity in part because it promotes fragmentation instead of collaboration of actors, thus hindering coordina...

• Nothing New under the Sun? George Perkins Marsh and Roots of US Physical Geography

  Published on March 17, 2021
  U.S. geomorphologists and biogeographers often cite early theoretical roots dating back to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century exemplars such as Powell, Gilbert, Cowles, and Clements, or earlier European contributors like Hutton, Lyell, von ...

• Managing Japanese beetles in chestnuts for 2013

  Published on March 3, 2013
  The 2012 season saw high populations of Japanese beetles in some Michigan orchards and growers will need to prepare to combat this potentially damaging pest in the coming season.

• Black truffles grown in eastern U.S. may be less valuable lookalike species

  Published on June 21, 2023
  Researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Florida, have discovered that truffle producers in the eastern U.S. may be inadvertently cultivating a less flavorful species of truffle.

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  David Smitley

  Professor Emeritus
  smitley@msu.edu
  517-355-3385
  

• Towards a spatial snow climatology for Switzerland: Comparison and validation of existing datasets

  Published on January 1, 2024
  In the European Alps, surface snow cover is of high relevance and a major factor for environmental, ecological and economical systems. The provision of accurate and timely climatological information on the spatio-temporal distribution of Alpine snow ...

• Towards nexus thinking in energy systems modelling: A multi-scale, embodied perspective

  Published on April 1, 2024
  The European Green Deal aims to decarbonise the EU by 2050. In alignment with that goal, the REPowerEU plan took Russia's invasion of Ukraine as an opportunity to address the security and sustainability of the EU's energy sector, by increasing energy...

• Landscape as Connecting Link of Nature and Culture: Spatial Planning Policy Implications in Greece

  Published on January 1, 2019
  The research paper investigates the diverse understandings of landscape, along with demonstrating the modes of contribution of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) of the Council of Europe (CE) in influencing national spatial planning systems. The...

• Geoscience for Cities: Delivering Europe's Sustainable Urban Future

  Published on March 1, 2024
  European Union (EU) policy is clear in its ambition to deliver a sustainable urban future for Europe. In this paper, we consider the role of urban geoscience to help achieve these ambitions. We highlight the relevance of geology to urban subsurface p...

• Collective forestry regimes to enhance transition to climate smart forestry

  Published on December 1, 2022
  As European mountain forests are a significant world carbon stock and sequester, they have a prominent position in climate policies and climate smart forestry (CSF) implementation. However, forest ecosystem services (ES) that are public or common goo...

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  Marie Schaefer, Ph.D.

  Adjunct Assistant Professor
  schae164@msu.edu
  

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  David Jukes

  Subject Matter Expert, Food Regulation in the European Union
  

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  Mary Friel

  Subject Matter Expert, Regulatory Leadership in Food Law
  

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  Elisabeth Paymal

  Communication Manager - Food Security Group and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy
  paymalel@msu.edu
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  Oliver Gomez

  Community Engagement Project Coordinator
  gomezol2@msu.edu
  

• Check your asparagus field for aphids

  Published on September 14, 2011
  Scout now for European asparagus aphids and know how to manage this rare Michigan pest, as severe damage could lead to yield loss next year or even plant death.