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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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  Chris Vandergoot, PhD

  Director, Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System; Associate Professor, Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
  vandergo@msu.edu
  734-780-6010
  

• Misconstrued Land Use in Vohibazaha: Participatory Planning in the Periphery of Madagascar's Mantadia National Park.

  Published on January 1, 2002
  This paper examines the roots of misconstrued land use in Vohibazaha, examining the history of traditional land-use practices as mediated by relations with national and international institutions.

• Undergraduate Fisheries Education: Technical Specialization or Broad Foundation?

  Published on June 17, 2015
  The fisheries profession continues to increase in complexity, and fisheries professionals are more frequently being called upon to function in new settings.

• CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRO SUSTAINABILITY - Governing flows in telecoupled land systems

  Published on May 1, 2019
  We evaluate whether recent land-system science research into telecoupling provides a basis to set normative goals or priorities for addressing sustainability in coupled human-natural systems.

• SUSTAINABILITY - Metacoupled Tourism and Wildlife Translocations Affect Synergies and Trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals across Spillover Systems

  Published on September 17, 2020
  We used a new integrated framework to guide SDG synergy and trade-off analysis within and across systems, as influenced by cross-boundary tourism and wildlife translocations.

• The intern-mentor experience: a ten week sample of the real world

  Published on March 10, 2016
  The internship experience, a temporary work period lasting three to six months, holds many meanings for undergraduate students

• Simulating Demographic and Socioeconomic Processes on Household Level and Implications for Giant Panda Habitats

  Published on June 15, 2001
  We developed a household-based, stochastic, and dynamic model that simulates the impacts of household demographic and socioeconomic interactions on fuelwood use, a key factor affecting the quantity and quality of habitats for the giant pandas.

• Interspecies Comparisons of Blood Thiamine in Salmonids from the Finger Lakes, and Effect of Maternal Size on Blood and Egg Thiamine in Atlantic Salmon with and without Cayuga Syndrome

  Published on March 28, 2016
  A lethal thiamine deficiency afflicting larval land locked Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in several of New York's Finger Lakes has been linked lo a maternal diet of the exotic, thiaminase-rich alewife Alosa pseudoharengus

• The Future of Nuclear Power: Value Orientations and Risk Perceptions

  Published on January 1, 2009
  We propose that attitudes toward nuclear power are a function of perceived risk, and that both attitudes and risk perceptions are a function of values, beliefs, and trust in the institutions that influence nuclear policy.

• Revising China's Environmental Law

  Published on July 22, 2013
  China’s Environmental Protection Law (EPL) is the main national environmental legislative framework. Yet the environmental legal system is incomplete

• Values, opinions, and behavior of inland trout anglers in Michigan

  Published on January 13, 2017
  The Michigan DNR conducted the Inland Trout Angler Survey to assess current opinions of inland trout anglers with respect to regulations and management priorities, and to characterize behavior, opinions, and practices of a large sample of these anglers.

• Interactive Effects Of Natural And Human Disturbances On Vegetation Dynamics Across Landscapes

  Published on June 21, 2005
  A study on the complex interactions of humans and landscapes, we developed an integrated spatiotemporally explicit model of household activities, natural vegetation dynamics, and their impacts on panda habitat.

• Differences in Incubation Period and Survival of Embryos among Brook Trout Strains

  Published on January 1, 2002
  The similarity in embryonic development between the two Adirondack strains may reflect an important local geographical adaptation different from that of the Quebec strains, which originated from more northerly populations.

• Remote sensing support for hypothesis of sustainable tourist valorisaion and fruition of the Southern Sinai National Parks (Red Sea, Egypt)

  Published on November 11, 2014
  The Sinai Peninsula is one of the most important tourists’ magnets for the sacred Shrines (St Katherine Monastery) and ecologically-valued landmarks (the coral of Aqaba). The most interesting flora and fauna are not terrestrial, but aquatic.

• A Joint Strategic Plan for Management of Great Lakes fisheries: A cooperative regime in a multi-jurisdictional setting

  Published on January 1, 2008
  This article provides a brief overview of the roles and responsibilities of the management jurisdictions and describes how the Joint Strategic Plan helps agencies cooperate across jurisdictional boundaries.

• Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making

  Published on January 1, 2008
  This book concludes that, when done correctly, public participation improves the quality of federal agencies' decisions about the environment.

• APPLIED GEOGRAPHY -- The Telecoupling GeoApp: A Web-GIS application to systematically analyze telecouplings and sustainable development

  Published on May 16, 2018
  To operationalize the framework, we have developed the Telecoupling GeoApp, a new web-based component of the Telecoupling Toolbox that provides researchers and practitioners with a useful platform to address globally important issues.

• A New Spatial-Attribute Weighting Function For Geographically Weighted Regression

  Published on November 29, 2005
  In this study, we proposed a new weighting function that combines the “geographical space” and “attribute space” between the subject tree and its neighbors.

• Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages

  Published on November 24, 2014
  The associations between co-occurring stream fish assemblages and densities of various “classes” of mining occurring in the same catchments were tested using threshold analysis.

• Developing decision-support tools to enhance aquatic connectivity in the Great Lakes Basin: results of a workshop sponsored by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust

  Published on March 10, 2016
  Interest in reconnecting riverine habitat through barrier removal and other fish passage projects continues to increase, and funding sources are becoming more readily available in Michigan and other Great Lakes states