At ESA, envisioning sustainability in a telecoupled world

Aug. 8, 2013

The Ecological Society of America got an earful of telecoupling Thursday morning as global experts gathered to exchange ideas about how to approach sustainability systemically -- from grazing cattle to palm oil to water zombies.

In total, more than 100 people attended all or portions of the presentation "Ecological Sustainability in a Telecoupled World" organized by MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability director Jianguo "Jack" Liu and moderated by CSIS associate director Bill McConnell in Minneapolis at ESA's annual meeting.

Nine CHANS-Net Fellows also were there, giving oral or poster presentations.

The panel:

Jane Lubchenco, Stanford University; Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute; Karen Seto, Yale University; Thomas Hertel, Purdue University; Joanne Gaskell, University of California, Berkeley; and Steven J. Davis, University of California, Irvine

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

Contact Us

About CHANS-Net

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, with research projects covering a variety of coupled systems in locations spanning the globe. Although individual projects have generated many important insights, it is essential to systematically transform the field to be more than the sum of its parts and provide broader insights of greater scientific and societal significance than those resulting from individual projects alone. The goal of CHANS-Net is to foster this transformation by facilitating communication and collaboration among members of the CHANS research community.

Search this site

Sign in to CHANS-Net

In The Media

At ESA, envisioning sustainability in a telecoupled world

Sponsors

Contact Us

Contact Us

About CHANS-Net