School of Natural Resources and Environment

Environmental Policy and Planning

The federal government should launch a series of efforts to assess thoroughly the condition of U.S. ecosystems and the social and economic value of the services those ecosystems provide, according to a new report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an independent council of the Nation's leading scientists and engineers. The report also recommends that the Nation apply modern informatics technologies to the vast stores of biodiversity data already collected by various Federal agencies in order to increase the usefulness of those data for decision- and policy-making.

Publication Date: 
InPress

Leila Sievanen, Heather M. Leslie, Julia M. Wondolleck, Steven L. Yaffee, Karen L. McLeod, and Lisa M. Campbell, í¢â‚¬Å“Linking top-down and bottom-up processes through the new U.S.National Ocean Policy,í¢â‚¬  Conservation Letters available early view online, April 2011.

Citation type: 
Journal Article

Three new faculty positions have been added to SNRE. The positions are in the areas of sustainable food systems, sustainable energy and climate change impacts, and sustainability and behavior. SNRE received the positions from U-M as part of President Coleman's 2007 Interdisciplinary Faculty Initiative, a plan to add 100 tenure-track positions in emerging research areas across the university; as of 2010, 72 had been approved in 17 cross-disciplinary clusters.

Publication Date: 
2011

2011. Area-based development, local institutions, and climate adaptation: A comparative analysis from west Africa and Latin America. Social Development Department, World Bank. Washington DC. (With Robin Mearns, Nicolas Perrin, and Minna Kononen).

Citation type: 
Review

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