College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Michigan Cultivars | Chestnuts

Citizen participation gaps and challenges in the heating transition: Learning from Dutch community initiatives

Published on January 1, 2024
The European Union has recognized the significance of community energy initiatives in the energy transition and introduced legislation to promote active consumer participation and renewable energy communities. The Netherlands, with its transition awa...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

Student Research Position (Dilley Mentorship Fellowship Program)

Employment type: Seasonal
Application Due Date: September 20, 2024

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.

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...

Do Traditional Livestock Systems Fit into Contemporary Landscapes? Integrating Social Perceptions and Values on Landscape Change

Published on November 1, 2021
European traditional cultural landscapes are increasingly modified by rural abandonment and urban growth processes. Acknowledged as of High Nature Value for providing multiple ecosystem services while contributing to human well-being, the future of t...

The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Spanish Protected Areas: the Case of Picos de Europa National Park

Published on July 1, 2022
Abstract Protected areas are complex social-ecological systems; thus, they were unavoidably impacted by COVID-19. Spain is one of the most diverse countries in terms of biodiversity in the European Union and the second most visited country in 2019 an...