Dr. Jiquan Chen, Key Contact: jqchen@msu.edu
Dr. Emilio Moran
Dr. Jiaguo Qi
This team-taught seminar class will provide a forum to examine the broad range of approaches being used by scientists to address human-environment, coupled systems, and the integration of social and natural sciences in environmental research.
We will look at what urgent questions are driving research at this time and in the past, 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.
| Date | Resources |
|---|---|
| 1/12/2016 | Introduction to human-environment research (Chen and Moran) |
| 1/19/2016 | The history of human dimensions of global change research (Moran) |
| 1/26/2016 | Integrative Science (Moran) |
| 2/02/2016 | Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, Global Land Project and Future Earth (Qi) |
| 2/09/2016 | CHANS and Telecoupling approaches (Moran), guest lecture by Dr. Jack Liu |
| 2/15/2016 | Approaches from Ecology (Chen) |
| 2/23/2016 | Food Security and Land Use Change (Moran) |
| 3/01/2016 | Nature-Based Solutions (Chen); guest lecture by Dr. Raffaele Lafortezza |
| 3/15/2016 | TBA (Qi) |
| 3/22/2016 | TBA (Qi) |
| 3/29/2016 | TBA (Qi) |
| 04/05/2016 | CNH Systems across the globe: from Mongolia to Central Asia (Chen) |
| 04/12/2016 | Urban CNH Ecosystems (Chen); guest lecture by Dr. Peilei Fan |
| 04/19/2016 | Student Paper Presentations (Moran) |
| 04/26/2016 | Student Paper Presentations (Chen/Qi) |
| 05/04/2016 | Term Paper Due |
