Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University
Instructor: Dr. Jiquan Chen; Email: jqchen@msu.edu
Guest Lectures
Jack Liu, MSU; liuji@msu.edu
Peilei Fan, MSU; wfang@pace.edu
Suraj Upadhaya, Iowa State University; upadhaya@iastate.edu
Venkatesh Kolluru, University of South Dakoda; Venkatesh.Kolluru@coyotes.usd.edu
Gabriela Shirkey, MSU; shirkeyg@msu.edu
Time: Wed., 12:40 am -3:30 pm
Office Hour: Fri., 12:00 am – 2:00 pm, Geography 212; or by appointment
Location: 120 Geography bldg.
This class will provide a forum to examine the broad range of approaches being used by scientists to address human-environment systems, and the integration of social and natural sciences. We will look at expert panel assessment of what the urgent questions are driving research at this time (and how this has changed over time), and how a range of teams are approaching the challenge of coupling the natural and social systems to address issues such as global change, climate change, food security, land use/cover, and sustainability. This goal will be achieved through reviews of the UpToDate literature, term papers, (guest) lectures, and hands-on homework. Several PIs of NSF’s DYSES are invited for guest lectures.
Schedule
| Date | Resources | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 1/11/2023 | Introduction | Lec |
| 1/18/2023 | A brief history of CNH concept: from IGBP to DYSES (NSF) | Lec |
| 1/25/2023 | Urban Sustainability; Guest lecture Dr. Peilei Fan | Lec |
| 2/1/2023 | Art of Scientific Writing; Couple human and natural systems on the Mongolian Plateau | Lec |
| 2/8/2023 | Sustainability Challenges for the Social-Environmental Systems across the Asian Drylands Belt | Lec |
| 2/15/2023 | MSU Closed due to the Campus Shooting | Sad! |
| 2/22/2023 | Quantitative descriptions of SES; Homework 1 | Lec | 3/1/2023 | Data mining, in-class exercise of accessing data; Introduction of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) | Lec |
| 3/8/2023 | Spring Break | Lec |
| 3/15/2023 | SEM demonstrations in R' demonstration, Venkatesh Kolluru, University of South Dakota; and Gabriela Shirkey, The LEES Lab, MSU | Lec |
| 3/22/2023 | Global climate change: Physical Foundations | Lec |
| 3/29/2023 | Global climate change: Consequences; Homework 3 | Lec |
| 4/5/2023 | Globalization & local practices: FEW | Lec |
| 4/12/2023 | Uncovering landowners' behaviors of conservation practices adoption in agricultural landscape-a social-ecological perspectives; Guest Lecture by Dr. Suraj Upadhaya, Iowa State University | Lec |
| 4/19/2023 | CHANS & Telecoupling; Guest Lecture by Dr. Jack Liu | Lec |
| 4/26/2023 | Student presentations Cai; Dear; Khajavigodellou; Khamidjonov; Lan; Qiu; Shope; Stimpfel |
Lec |
| 5/2/2023 | Final Exam; Term paper due on May 4, 2023 |
Reading
1) Chen, J. (2023). Unlocking the Power of Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling: A Game-Changing Breakthrough. Global Change Biology.
2) Chen, J., John, R., Zhang, Y., Shao, C., Brown, D. G., Batkhishig, O., ... & Qi, J. (2015). Divergences of two coupled human and natural systems on the Mongolian Plateau. Bioscience, 65(6), 559-570.
3) Chen, J., John, R., Yuan, J., Mack, E. A., Groisman, P., Allington, G., ... & Qi, J. (2022). Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian Drylands Belt. Environmental Research Letters, 17(2), 023001.
4) Chen, J., John, R., Shao, C., Ouyang, Z., Mack, E. A., Henebry, G. M., ... & Abraha, M. (2021). Towards a single integrative metric on the dynamics of social-environmental systems. Sustainability, 13(20), 11246.
5) Fan, P., Ouyang, Z., Nguyen, D. D., Nguyen, T. T. H., Park, H., & Chen, J. (2019). Urbanization, economic development, environmental and social changes in transitional economies: Vietnam after Doimoi. Landscape and urban planning, 187, 145-155.
6) Filatova, T., Polhill, J. G., & Van Ewijk, S. (2016). Regime shifts in coupled socio-environmental systems: Review of modelling challenges and approaches. Environmental modelling & software, 75, 333-347.
7) Herrero-Jáuregui, C., Arnaiz-Schmitz, C., Reyes, M. F., Telesnicki, M., Agramonte, I.,... & Montes, C. (2018). What do we talk about when we talk about social-ecological systems? A literature review. Sustainability, 10(8), 2950.
8) Haughton, G. (1999). Environmental justice and the sustainable city. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 18(3), 233-243.
9) Hickel, J. (2020). The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the Anthropocene. Ecological Economics, 167, 106331.
10) IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. In Press. (as a reference, not required to read this 3949-page document)
11) Krausmann, F., Erb, K. H., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Bondeau, A., Gaube, V., ... & Searchinger, T. D. (2013). Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 110(25), 10324-10329.
12) Lafortezza, R., Chen, J., Van Den Bosch, C. K., & Randrup, T. B. (2018). Nature-based solutions for resilient landscapes and cities. Environmental research, 165, 431-441.
13) Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter, S. R., Alberti, M., Folke, C., Moran, E., ... & Taylor, W. W. (2007). Complexity of coupled human and natural systems. science, 317(5844), 1513-1516.
14) Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter, S. R., Taylor, W. W., Alberti, M., Deadman, P., ... & Lubchenco, J. (2021). Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework. Ambio, 50(10), 1778-1783.
15) Ostrom, E. (2009). A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science, 325(5939), 419-422.
16) Resilience Theory and Socio-Environmental Systems: https://www.sesync.org/resources/resilience-theory-and-socio-environmental-systems
17) Robertson, G. P., Hamilton, S. K., Paustian, K., & Smith, P. (2022). Land-based climate solutions for the United States. Global Change Biology, 28(16), 4912-4919.
18) Rubino, M., Etheridge, D. M., Trudinger, C. M., Allison, C. E., Rayner, P. J., Enting, I., ... & Smith, A. M. (2016). Low atmospheric CO2 levels during the Little Ice Age due to cooling-induced terrestrial uptake. Nature Geoscience, 9(9), 691-694.
19) Silbernagel, J., Martin, S. R., Gale, M. R., & Chen, J. (1997). Prehistoric, historic, and present settlement patterns related to ecological hierarchy in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. Landscape Ecology, 12(4), 223-240.
20) Turner, B. L., Esler, K. J., Bridgewater, P., Tewksbury, J., Sitas, N., Abrahams, B., ... & Mooney, H. (2016). Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: what have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 19, 160-168.
21) Venkatesh, K., John, R., Chen, J., Jarchow, M., Amirkhiz, R. G., Giannico, V., ... & Yuan, J. (2022). Untangling the impacts of socioeconomic and climatic changes on vegetation greenness and productivity in Kazakhstan. Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 095007.
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