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- Pattern to Process : Development of a Signature Program in Land Use and
Land Cover Change
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- Establish a nationally recognized research program in LUCC as a central,
contributory element of MSU’s environmental research initiative
- Create an interdisciplinary focus for a campus-wide activity to enhance
and expand MSU externally funded research
- Develop new opportunities for excellence in teaching and service coupled
to an active research program
- Stimulate new modes of entrepreneurial activities through expansion and
enhancement of existing environmental research
- Incubate new technologies and improve campus and public assess to
information about the state of local, regional, and global environment
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- Enterprise Development
- Enterprise Zone Design & Development
- Outreach to MSU LUCC Initiatives
- New Initiatives
- Research and Development
- Research Proposals
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- Established and Executive Committee to guide Enterprise Development
- Established an ad hoc scientific advisory group to facilitate
development of a science plan for the Enterprise
- Developed a comprehensive long-range Science Plan for MSU’s Land Use and
Cover Change Research Enterprise with faculty input
- Developed an enabling a process for willing researchers to become
engaged in the Enterprise Zone
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- Developed facilities for establishment of new LUCC laboratories
- Established and implemented protocols for faculty associates to join the
Enterprise and move into the Enterprise Zone
- Developed a System Synergism Center for collaboration and proposal
development
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- Engaged the Victor Institute to plan and facilitate the next Enterprise
workshop focusing on updating MSU Administration on LUCC
- Presented visions and opportunities for linking LUCC research to Land
Use Area of Expertise Extension
- Provided Financial Support and participated in Speaker Series on LUCC
- Provided input to Natural Resource Coalition
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- LUCC Institutional Development
- “Research Michigan” concept evolved from Brooking Institute linkage
- MSU’s Environmental Science Research and Graduate Program Development
(Environmental Science Cabinet)
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- Regional Earth Science Application Center (Upper Great Lakes
Region-NASA)
- Economic Assessment of Land Based Industries in Michigan (Kellogg
Foundation-Public Sector Consultants)
- Watershed-wide Risk Assessment of the Muskegon River Watershed (GL
Protection Fund)
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- Science Plan: Land Use and Land Cover Change at MSU-Creating A Research
Enterprise on Land Use and Land Cover Change
- Facility Development: A Synergism Center for Collaborative Interactions
in the Enterprise Zone
- Research: Land Based Industries Assessment
- New Technologies: Detecting Land Use Change at watershed scales
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- Background
- Participants
- Part 1:Justification
- environmental research agenda; scales that matter; significant issuers
of our time
- Part 2: Research priorities and Elements
- Part 3: Approach to Implementation
- Vision-Principles-Emphasis
- Research Enterprise Concept-projects-underpinning
units-institutes-positions
- Part 4: Strategic Position within National Environmental Priorities
- Part 5: Next Steps
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- Background: Synopsis
- “This report thus synthesizes the results of this process culminating in
the faculty-MSU wide workshop, providing a Science Plan with some
general recommendations for implementation.
- “It is not the aim of this report to be overly prescriptive. Rather it
aims to reflect an agenda open to contributions and initiatives from
individual colleges and units in ways that best fit their individual
needs, but at the same time contributes to a cohesive program.”
- It is our hope that significant
collaborative initiatives will emerge to support the research foci laid
out in this report. We believe this report will aid the university
administration in setting investment priorities, and lead to highly
successful and visible outcomes.”
- David Skole and Stuart Gage, February 2001
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- Justification and Rationale
- The program:
- aims to be truly interdisciplinary and integrative, drawing from both
the physical, biological and social sciences,
- focuses on both the global and local scales, thereby transcending the
various issues of the LUCC,
- although firmly grounded in externally-funded, high profile basic
research, it will also address applied issues relevant to the state,
region and nation,
- will be broadly international, and
- will utilize new tools for spatial analysis which are emerging in remote
sensing, geographic information sciences, landscape ecology and other
similar fields.
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- Significant Issues
- This report presents a design for a major campus-wide LUCC research
initiative that will address some of the major intellectual and
technological challenges of our time.
- It is centered on research excellence in the tradition of the land grant
university yet forged in a way consistent with new demands on research
presented by a rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent global
environment and economy of the 21st century.
- The focus is on building a research program that addresses significant
problems of sustainability science, linking research to socially
relevant problems at scales that matter.
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- Understanding fundamental causes
- Institutional policy contexts and constraints
- Interactions with climate, ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry and water
- Global Biosphere and Earth System
- International Dimensions
- Urban and Metropolitan Environments
- Disease in Human Populations
- Ecological Risk and Vulnerability
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- Emphasis
- Although discussed in detail in the text above, we list the areas or
program emphasis; these topics make the program different than anything
that currently exists on campus, or generally around the country at
other institutions:
- Integrative research, drawing
from the social, biological and physical sciences in a truly
interdisciplinary program.
- Global scale phenomena that have
causal and impact processes at regional or local scales; linking the
global to the local.
- Spatial attributes and dynamics
of patterns and processes, and the use of multi- scale geospatial
information systems models and earth observations.
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- Land Use and Cover Change Research Enterprise
- Although we call for new administrative structures below which would be
centralized in a specific new facility or units, the program should be
open to all faculty.
- The stimulation of an enterprise could largely come through strategic
initiatives from at the OVPRGS level, such as targeting relevant themes
from this report in the IRGP calls for proposals.
- These targeted solicitations could routinely use seed money or
facilities to create the campus involvement. We argue that the themes
address in this plan provide a basis for the prioritization and
allocation of funds. It would be useful to target some fraction of the
Strategic Partnership funds, or the Intramural Grants Program funds on
an annual or rotating basis. It would also be useful for the OVPRGS to
make some kind of center-of-excellence designation for the program.
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- An expert on the urban and metropolitan issues of sprawl and
decentralization, with skills in modeling and quantitative analysis,
such as regional science.
- An expert on the urban and metropolitan issues with respect to social
and economic issues, with skills in policy analysis and assessments.
- A climatologist/atmospheric transport modeler at the meso and macro
scales.
- An atmospheric chemist with skills in tropospheric chemistry to work on
problems of aerosol production, region air pollution, and radiative
balance.
- A land use change modeler with skills in geospatial modeling, remote
sensing and spatial econometrics.
- A geographic information systems specialist with skills in distributed,
open geospatial software environments.
- A policy specialist with skills in integrative assessments, regional
analysis and environmental impact, nationally and internationally.
- A specialist in economic development and/or international economics or
foreign development.
- A specialist in medical geography or epidemiology with skills on disease
and environment.
- A systems ecologist with skills in global biosphere, carbon cycle, and
climate.
- A specialist in large-scale hydrology.
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- National Priorities
- In response to a request from NSF to the National Research Council to
identify Environmental Science Priorities, the NRC identified eight
“Grand Challenges” of which four are recommended for immediate research
investments. One of these four is land use dynamics.
- Here is a summary from the NRC report :
- “The challenge is to develop a systematic understanding of changes
in land uses and covers that are critical to ecosystem functioning and
services and human welfare. Important areas for research include
developing long term, regional databases for land uses, land covers, and
related social information; developing spatially explicit and
multisectoral land-change theory; linking land-change theory to
space-based imagery; and developing innovative applications of dynamic
spatial simulation techniques.”
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- Next Steps
- Provide FORUM for the participating community of LUCC scholars to react
to this Science Plan and to propose next implementation steps for LUCC
research that can be adopted by the Administration.
- The objectives of the follow up workshop are to:
- · Showcase current LUCC research by MSU LUCC scholars through Presentations, posters and
demonstrations;
- · Provide a forum to present LUCC research ideas by MSU
faculty; and
- · Identify existing resources to facilitate the preparation
of these LUCC research proposals for submission to organizations that
fund LUCC research.
- We should move forward to capitalize on the national and local potential
for LUCC research. MSU has an unprecedented opportunity to continue as a
recognized leader in LUCC research and outreach.
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- Resource-Based Industries Land Use Forum
- Kellogg Foundation ŕ Michigan Economic
- and Environmental Roundtable
- ŕ MSU LUCC
Enterprise
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- Objectives
- ID and assess key concerns re fragmentation and transformation of land
within Michigan as they may affect key industries including agriculture,
forestry, mining and tourism
- Expand the LTM to incorporate and identify key issues for the above
industries
- Modify the LTM to include the entire state of Michigan
- Use the most recent LUC information in Michigan and adapt the model to
this
- Conduct simulation scenarios using the LTM to address industry concerns
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- Grand Traverse; Kent; Muskegon; Newago; Ottawa; Wexford
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- Grand Traverse; Kent; Muskegon; Newago; Ottawa; Wexford
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- Future Directions
- Institutionalizing the Enterprise
- Developing the Enterprise Zone
- System Synergism Center
- Faculty Attraction (Institutionalization)
- Research Michigan Initiative
- Upper Great Lakes Region Initiative
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- Enterprise Zone Development
- Systems Synergism Center
- High technology communications facility
- Collaborative research proposal development
- Wireless communications
- Video conferencing (Local->international)
- Whiteboard technology
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- MISSION: To focus the university‑wide
analytical capacity in the area of land use so as to develop a better
understanding of and solutions to the social, economic, and
environmental issues and impacts of land use in Michigan. RESEARCH
MICHIGAN is a university-based "think tank" that will bring
cohesion and a cross-campus focus to land-use research and outreach.
This effort is consistent with and a logical next step of Michigan State
University=s [MSU=s] land use cover change initiative [see Creating a
Research Enterprise on Land Use and Land Cover Change].
- BACKGROUND: RESEARCH MICHIGAN is
a multiple-stage, research-based endeavor that is one manifestation of
MSU’s Enterprise approach to land use. This approach is an outcome of
earlier initiatives by the administration and faculty members from three
of MSU’s Colleges (SSC, CANR, & CNS) engaged in environmental
science / land-use activities together with the Office of the Vice
President of Research & Graduate Studies. RESEARCH MICHIGAN advances
and is consistent with at least two of the eight focus areas [#2 and #6]
identified in Creating a Research Enterprise on Land Use and Land Cover
Change.
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- Continuation Proposal -> NASA Plus
- Focus on Research Applications related to Climate Issues in the UGLR
- Link resource management agencies to University Research Capacity
- Continue Partnerships with USGS/DNR/DOT/USFS/EPA
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