Center for Systems Integration and 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.

Understanding tigers and people

Neil Carter studies tigers roaming near villages in Nepal, the people who live beside them, and sees answers for the rest of the world.

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.

Program enhances fishery conservation

Jan. 9, 2012

In a major contribution to fishery conservation, Michigan State University is establishing an endowed scholar program to ensure healthy environments for fish and aquatic resources.

The Stanislaus F. Snieszko Endowed Scholar Program in Aquatic Animal Medicine, named for a world-renowned fish health scientist, will be a catalyst to bridge science with policy and provide leadership to public and private organizations to conserve the nation’s wildlife, aquatic animals and related natural resources.

Highlights of Emilio Moran's CSIS visit

Dec. 20, 2011

Pandas and policy featured on LiveScience

Dec. 5, 2011

Vanessa Hull's work on pandas, habitat and policy in China is featured in LiveScience as a Behind the Scenes report, Prowling pandas become policy advisers. LiveScience partners with the National Science Foundation to deliver highly accessible science, health and technology news for people who are curious about their minds, bodies, and the

Zoning boundaries can make good neighbors in conservation

As the world’s biodiversity hotspots are increasingly stressed by their human neighbors, zoning is becoming a common strategy to balance environmental protection and human needs. But a recent study shows zoning for conservation demands reality checks.

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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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