policy

Lessons from China’s environmental front

March 12, 2013

China’s investment of money and decades to stem the tide of environmental destruction and protect its natural resources has done more than save flora and fauna – it has also provided a roadmap for itself and the rest of the world.

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Mark Rey opines in the New York Times

Dec. 11, 2012

Mark ReyMark Rey, executive in residence for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and CSIS, co-authored an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled "Could the Farm Bill Devastate America’s Birds?" this week, pointing out crucial conservation aspects nested in the current Farm Bill. 

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Making sustainability policies sustainable

Nov. 30, 2012

Sweeping environmental policies come with hidden challenges – not only striving to achieve sustainability and benefit the environment – but over time ensuring the program itself can endure.

Scientists at Michigan State University and their colleagues in China are examining China’s massive Grain to Green Program (GTGP) – an effort to persuade farmers to return cropland to forest through financial incentives. Their results were reported in this week’s journal Ecological Indicators.

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Demmer Scholars: DC's summer of policy

 

Blogger: Brooke Merrill, one of 23 MSU students in the Demmer Scholar Washington, DC, program, a senior-level class in natural resources policy that meets one night a week and all day Saturday while working full-time as paid interns at federal agencies or non-governmental organizations that focus on natural resources.

 

 

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