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• Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

  Sustainability: When both humans and nature thrive. Pandas. Global food trade. Fisheries. UN Sustainable Development Goals. Creating innovative systems approaches to saving the world

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• JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES - Spatio-temporal variations of the flood mitigation service of ecosystem under different climate scenarios in the Upper Reaches of Hanjiang River Basin, China

  Published on August 27, 2018
  Extreme rainstorm and the subsequent flood increasingly threaten the security of human society and ecological environment with aggravation of global climate change and anthropogenic activity in recent years

• Reproductive life-history strategies in lake whitefish ( Coregonus clupeaformis ) from the Laurentian Great Lakes

  Published on November 24, 2014
  Recent food-web changes in the Laurentian Great Lakes are affecting energy and nutrient allocation to lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) with potential downstream effects on egg condition and recruitment

• Polycentric Transformation in Kenyan Water Governance: A Dynamic Analysis of Institutional and Social-Ecological Change

  Published on May 31, 2018
  Beginning in 2002, Kenyan water governance transitioned from a monocentric, top‐down system to one exhibiting traits of polycentricity

• The Four Fs of Fish: Communicating the Public Value of Fish and Fisheries

  Published on December 17, 2012
  Effectively demonstrating the value of fish and the fisheries supply chain they create is as important for the future of our own profession as for the fish.

• Great Lakes Fisheries Policy & Management

  Published on August 20, 2014
  This book offers an informed look at the Great Lakes fisheries and their ecosystems, as the contributors examine both the threats they have faced and the valuable opportunities they provide for basin citizens and industries.

• Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability

  Published on January 1, 2009
  State-of-the-art assessments of current research into the human dimensions of global environmental change and promising directions for future advancements.

• AMBIO - Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding

  Published on January 18, 2021
  The paper argues for viewing fish from a food systems perspective to broaden the conversation on food and nutrition security and equity

• Delayed Implantation in Giant Pandas: The First Comprehensive Empirical Evidence

  Published on January 1, 2009
  This study informs reproductive biology by exploring the little-studied phenomenon of delayed implantation in relationship to physiological changes in pregnant giant panda females.

• Projected impacts of climate change on stream salmonids with implications for resilience-based management

  Published on January 2, 2016
  Our study promotes resilience-based salmonid management by providing a methodology for stream temperature and thermal habitat suitability prediction.

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  ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT - How Different Forms of Social Capital Created Through Project Team Assignments Influence Employee Adoption of Sustainability Practices

  Published on October 14, 2019
  A practical and cost-effective way to promote organizational learning for sustainability may be to strategically form cross-organizational unit project teams that include sustainability practice innovators.

• Understanding U.S. public support for domestic climate change policies

  Published on January 1, 2010
  We present a detailed analysis of the reasons given by the general public of Michigan and Virginia for supporting or rejecting a number of policies that could be implemented to meet GHG reductions.

• Re-Establishing Lake Trout in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Past, Present, and Future

  Published on January 1, 2012
  Our specific objectives were to review the history of Lake Trout fisheries, describe management actions to achieve Lake Trout rehabilitation goals, and review emerging research themes that support Lake Trout rehabilitation.

• Evaluating a science-based decision support tool used to prioritize brook charr conservation project proposals in the eastern United States

  Published on December 24, 2009
  This article evaluated the prioritization method used by comparing the quantitative rankings of the proposals with the final reports for 12 completed projects using paired t tests for unequal sample sizes and variance.

• Exploratory coral reef assessment of the offshore islands of the Egyptian Red Sea

  Published on November 11, 2014
  An exploratory survey of five offshore islands in the Egyptian Red Sea has been undertaken to evaluate the importance of natural resources in terms of biodiversity and serve as baseline study.

• Energy and Climate Change: Key Lessons for Implementing the Behavioral Wedge

  Published on March 25, 2011
  This Essay addresses one of the obstacles to achieving a “behavioral wedge”: the lack of an accessible, brief summary for policymakers of the key findings of behavioral and social science studies on household energy behavior.

• The 2014-2015 Fenske Fellowship: furthering the future of fisheries management

  Published on March 10, 2016
  What does the future have in store for the Great Lakes Basin, and are we ready for it? This is a critical question to consider, especially in regard to emerging issues and potential threats

• METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION - Quantifying apart what belongs together: A multi-state species distribution modelling framework for species using distinct habitats

  Published on June 9, 2017
  Species distribution models (SDMs) have been used to inform scientists and conservationists about the status and change in occurrence patterns in threatened species. We address this issue by intro- ducing a multi-state SDM framework.

• Design Principles for Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs

  Published on January 1, 2010
  The goal, articulated by President Obama in 2009, of reducing U.S. carbon emissions 17% from the 2005 level by 2020 is eminently achievable without new technology or appreciable sacrifice by energy users.

• Artisanal fisheries and NTZs in Nabq, Egypt: effect on gleaned molluscs and reef top benthic assemblages

  Published on November 11, 2014
  To assess the effects of these NTZs on gleaned molluscs and on the reef top benthic assemblages, a survey of edible molluscs was undertaken within NTZs boundaries, and in four adjacent fished areas.

• Challenges of forest governance in Madagascar

  Published on January 1, 2005
  This paper explores the enormity of the challenge of forest governance in Madagascar in an era of decentralization.