Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Tigers, people, and finding ways for both to thrive

Neil Carter studies tigers roaming near villages in Nepal, the people who live beside them, and the paths that can lead both to sustainability

To analyze fish habitat, center scientist studies the land around it

With fish habitat sustainability as the goal, researchers focus on dry land.

Fish sustainability means going beyond the pond -- and beyond water

To understand fish and their habitats means venturing onto land, into the atmosphere as well as into the realms of humans who raise and eat them.

Urban life may make residents lean toward green

The downsides of China’s urbanization -- like pollution and greenhouse gas emissions -- now have an upside: Better environmental citizens.

For pandas, it’s home. For human-nature scientists, it’s a gold mine

Southwestern China’s Wolong Nature Reserve has been the Human-Nature Lab’s “laboratory” for 15 years.

Demmer Scholars immersed in policy-making for summer

May 16, 2012

A select group of agriculture and natural resources and James Madison College students from Michigan State and Mississippi State are working on their networks more than their tans this summer by studying the intricacies of federal policy-making while working full-time in Washington, D.C.

A little bit of policy, a little bit of rock and roll

May 11, 2012

Environmental policy got a touch of rock star this week when MSU executive in residence Mark Rey testified in defense of legislation seeking to stem illegal logging.

Oh, and Adam Gardner from Guster was at his side.

CSIS research helps advance sustainability at World Fisheries Congress

April 30, 2012

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From the effects of climate change on whitefish in the Great Lakes to the effects humans have on fish and their habitats around the globe, MSU Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) researchers are working to tease apart how the relationships between people, landscapes and water affect fish biodiversity and productivity.

Researchers give long look at who benefits from nature tourism

April 25, 2012

Using nature’s beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China’s valued panda preserves, but it isn’t an automatic ticket out of poverty for the human habitants, a unique long-term study shows.

The policy hitch: Often those who benefit most from nature-based tourism endeavors are people who already have resources. The truly impoverished have a harder time breaking into the tourism business.

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Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
Michigan State University
115 Manly Miles Building
1405 S. Harrison Rd.
East Lansing, MI 48823, USA

517-432-5025 (phone)
517-432-5066 (fax)

Email: csis@csis.msu.edu

About the Center

The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.

Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) are integrated systems in which humans and natural components interact. CHANS research has recently emerged as an exciting and integrative field of cross-disciplinary scientific inquiry to find sustainable solutions that both benefit the environment and enable people to thrive.

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