Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Telecoupling Events           CHANS Events

2024

• Special Seminar with Johnathan Rhodes, Professor at the Queensland University of Technology

  • October 7 - "Conservation Policy and Planning in Complex Globally Connected Landscapes"

• Rachel Carson Distinguished Anniversary Lecture Series continues in the fall. Please register to receive the Zoom links for the topics below.

  • October 17 - "The importance of evidence and data to hold a spotlight on food systems" by Jessica Fanzo
  • October 10 - "Community Disaster Resilience: To What? For Whom?" by Susan Cutter
  • October 1 - "The Climate Challenge and Solutions for Communities" by Marilyn Brown
  • September 26 -“Converting science into policy: a career inspired by Rachel Carson” by William Sutherland
  • September 12 - "Ocean Governance: Past, Present, Future" by Scott Barrett

• April 4 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Uncovering the Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Health and the Economy" by Drew Shindell  Video

• Mar 28 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Captured sunshine: what can an energetic view of life on Earth tell us about nature decline and recovery?" by Yadvinder Malhi  Video

• Mar 19 (Tuesday, 9 am ET) "From Environmental Progress to Climate Change Challenges" by Claire L Parkinson  Video

• Mar 14 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Designing effective environmental and conservation policies: The role of individual and collective incentives" by Kathleen Segerson  Video

• Mar 7 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Incorporating Air and Water Pollution into the National Income and Product Accounts" by Maureen Cropper  Video

• Feb 22 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Environmental Science and Behavioral Science Need One Another" by Baruch Fischhoff  Video

• Feb 15 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Agrifood systems innovations to boost human and environmental resilience to shocks" by Christopher B Barrett  Video

• Feb 1 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "What can “the commons” mean to policy and practice in a rapidly changing climatic, cultural, and political world?" by Bonnie J. McCay - Video

• Jan 25 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Cloudy with a Chance of Science - Shaping a discussion at the intersection of wicked problems and society" by James Marshall Shepherd - Video

• Jan 18 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "The Social Cost of Water Pollution" by Catherine Kling - Video

• Jan 11 (Thursday, 9 am ET) "Biodiversity - The Next Frontier in Economics" by Geoffrey Heal - Video

2021

Nov. 11 - GLP Event: Land Systems and the Pandemic — Learning from Global Shocks. online at 04:00 PM in Zurich. Register on Zoom

Nov. 6 - International Symposium on the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES): Implications for Natural Resource Management in Asia. Carolina Asia Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. The Symposium will be held virtually, and free to all who are interested. Registration

Aug. 21-23 - Metacoupling: Framework and Applications (Keynote Speech), LASOSU2021: International Forum on Land Degradation, Soil Conservation and Sustainable Development. Dalian, China

June 19 -  Global Land Programme Webinar: Transdisciplinary challenges and opportunities for telecoupling research.

Feb. 5 - the 2021 Urboretum Symposium Centres and Peripheries: Reconfiguring Post-COVID-19 Urban Landscapes. 

2019

April 24-26 - Emergent Effects in Telecoupled Systems: Challenges and Lessons for Governing Local Land-use in a Globally Connected World, 4th Open Science Meeting - Global Land Programme, Bern, Switzerland

April 9 - Telecoupling Toolbox: Integrated Cloud-based Tools for Sustainability Science, United States Chapter of the International  Association of Landscape Ecology, Annual Meeting, Fort Collins, CO

Feb, 17 - Sustainable Development Goals: New Science Balancing a Hyperconnected World, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

2018

April 10 - Telecoupling Framework: Concepts, Applications and Hands-On Exercises with the New Cloud-Based Telecoupling Toolbox, US-IALE 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

April 9 - Telecoupling for Sustainable Development and Conservation Across Local to Global Scales, US-IALE 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 

2017

Dec. 11-15 - AGU Fall Meeting Session: Interdependence of Coupled Human and Natural Systems around the World, New Orleans, LA

Dec. 13 - Carl Folke -- Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture, Social-ecological systems, resilience thinking, and sustainability: Reconnecting development to the biosphere, Kellogg Center Lincoln Room, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

June 8 - Telecoupled Human and Natural Systems: Theory and Application to the International Food Trade (oral session),  Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University’s (GTAP) “20th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis”, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

April 12-13 - Fate of the Earth -- Climate-Food-Energy_Water Nexus, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing, MI

April 10 - Telecoupling People and Landscapes among Distant Places around the World, USIALE Conference, Baltimore, MD

April 9 - Workshop: Applications of the Telecoupling Framework and Hands-on Exercises with the Telecoupling Toolbox, US International Association of Landscape Ecology (USIALE), Baltimore, MD

2016

Dec. 15 - Telecoupling at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Telecoupling sessions, Moscone, Convention Center, San Francisco, CA

Dec. 7 - GSO Seminar Series: Fulfilling our Collective Goals In a Divided World, Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI

Oct. 27 - Untangling the Complexity of Telecouplings and Global Land System Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Geographic and Disciplinary Boundaries (forum), Global Land Project, 3rd Open Science Meeting, Beijing, China

Oct. 24-27 - Global Land Project 3rd Open Science Meeting “Land system science: understanding realities and developing solutions”, Beijing, China

April 4 - Landscape networks as telecoupled human and natural systems (symposium), United States Chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC, USA

April 3 - US-IALE Workshop: Telecoupling Framework for the Landscape Ecology Community, USIALE Annual Meeting Land Change Workshops, Asheville, NC,

2015

Oct. 1 - Telecoupling Systems (satellite session), European Conference on Complex Systems, Temple, AZ, USA

Aug. 14 - Impacts of natural disasters on telecouplings, Ecological Society of American Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD

Aug. 12 - Telecoupling: A new frontier of research on coupled human and natural systems, Ecological Society of American Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD

July 5 - Telecoupling framework for studying cross-border and cross-scale interactions - ALE World Congress, Portland, Oregon

May 21 - Promises and Perils of Telecouplings for Global Sustainability, Stockholm, Sweden

April 1-2 - Fate of the Earth Symposium, Environmental Science & Policy Program, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing, MI

Jan. 26-28 - Global Conference on Inland Fisheries, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy

2014

Dec. 1-3 - Towards operationalization of telecoupling concepts for land system science (workshop), Global Land Project, Aeschi, Switzerland

July 16-19 - Global Fair and Workshop on Long-Term Observing Systems of Mountain Social-Ecological System, The Mountain Research Initiative, Reno, NV

May 19 - US-IALE Annual Symposium - Telecouplings: Challenges and Opportunities for the Landscape Ecology Community, US-IALE, Anchorage, Alaska

Mar. 19-21 - Land Systems in a Telecoupled World, Global Land Project, Open Science Meeting, Berlin, Germany

May 18-22 - Symposium on "Cascading Thresholds in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) and the Emergence of Wicked Problems", 2014 Annual Symposium, U.S. Regional Association (International Association for Landscape Ecology), Anchorage, AK

April 25 - Sociology Seminar Series:  Thomas Dietz - "Rethinking Sustainable Development: Coupled Ecological and Social Change", East Lansing, MI

Mar. 28 - Future Infrastructures for Meeting Energy Demands - The Helmholtz Alliance - ENERGY-TRANS” - Pia-Johanna Schweizer, East Lansing, MI

Mar. 3 - Guest lecture by Tiejun Wen: China’s Eco-Civilization and Sustainable Development: Characteristics and Challenges, MSU Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, the Detroit Chinese Business Association and the MSU-China Entrepreneur Network. East Lansing, MI

2013

Dec. 9-13 - Two different Symposia on “Coupled Human and Natural Systems”, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA

Aug. 8 - Symposium on "Ecological Sustainability in a Telecoupled World", Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN

2012

Dec. 3-7 - CHANS-Net Workshop, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA

Dec. 3-7 - Four different Symposia on “Coupled Human and Natural Systems and Global Change”, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA

Dec. 6 - Ecology seminar and book signing at University of Georgia: Sources, Sinks and Sustainability, University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA

Sept. 23-28 - Ernst Strüngman Forum on Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era, Frankfurt, Germany

May 16-17 - Workshop on "Land Change Meta-analysis", Global Land Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

April 8-12 - Symposium on "Disentangling Diverse Drivers and Complex Dynamics of Coupled Human

and Natural Systems (CHANS)",  US-IALE 2012 Annual Symposium: Informing Decisions in a Changing World, Newport, RI

Mar. 26 - Telecoupling and land change in emerging economies: trade and the rise of eco-consumerism (oral Session), Planet Under Pressure, London, UK

2011

April 21 - The Temporal and Spatial Scales of Global Climate Change and the Limits of Individualistic and Rationalistic Ethics, South Kedzie Hall, MSU campus, East Lansing, MI

April 15 - Coupled Human and Natural Systems: From Local to Global, LTER Seminar Series, W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Auditorium, East Lansing, MI

April 5 - Conservation as Human-Nature Relationship: Art or Science? International Center, MSU campus, East Lansing, MI

Feb. 21 - Social Networks and Sustainability, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

Feb. 20 - Modeling Across Millennia: Interdisciplinary Paths to Ancient Socionatural Systems, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

Feb. 20 - The Challenge of Measuring Sustainability, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

Feb. 19 - Resource use and ecological resilience in a tropical socio-ecological system, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

Feb. 18 - Telecoupling of Human and Natural Systems, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

Feb. 18 - Mapping and disentangling human decisions in complex human-nature systems, AAAS Annual Meeting -- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC

2010

Oct. 17-19 - Symposium on "Coupled Human and Natural Systems in China and Nepal", Global Land Project- Open Science Meeting, Tempe, AZ

April 14-18 - Nine different symposia on “Coupled Human and Natural Systems” Research, 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC

April 15 - Symposium on "Frontiers in Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Current Progress and Future Opportunities", National Science Foundation headquarters, Arlington, VA

2009

April 12-16 - Symposium on "Complexity in Human-Nature Interactions across Landscapes", US-IALE 2009 Annual Symposium, U.S. Regional Association (International Association for Landscape Ecology), Snowbird, UT

April 12-16 - Workshop on "Challenges and Opportunities in Research on Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems", US-IALE 2009 Annual Symposium, U.S. Regional Association (International Association for Landscape Ecology), Snowbird, UT