• Telecoupling gains entry in new encyclopedia

    Published on October 29, 2020
    The telecoupling entry in The International Encyclopedia of Geography gives background on the concept, illustrates the framework that helps understand telecoupling, and provides example applications of the concept and framework

  • Shocking biodiversity decline more than one-solution crisis

    Published on October 22, 2020
    MSU sustainability scientist Jianguo "Jack" Liu is part of an international team of scientists analyzing new goals for nature in a United Nations effort published in Science Magazine.

  • Networks, clusters and how global meat markets tick

    Published on October 7, 2020
    MSU researchers in Scientific Reports combined a network model approach with cluster analysis of meat trade in 134 countries from 1995 to 2015.

  • New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure

    Published on September 17, 2020
    Sustainability scientists at MSU find policies governing wildlife trade and tourism sometimes have more success than intended to achieve some of the UN SDGs. Yet in some cases those paths have created roadblocks and detours to success.