Overview
Overview
The Michigan State University Land Use and Cover Change Research Enterprise is an interdisciplinary cross-campus agenda of research and outreach focused on the topic of land use and cover change (LUCC). LUCC is a significant agent of environmental change. It is a topic with both global and local relevance, and as a research thrust it immediately serves the needs of decision makers and citizens. As a major Land Grant University, MSU research and outreach can significantly impact both science and policy at various levels analysis and decision making. The creation of this LUCC research agenda is intended to galvanize and facilitate on-going environmental research on campus through an enterprise approach which links various collaborators with shared interests in land use analysis, information, and policy.
The MSU LUCC Program Strategy
This document outlines a plan for implementation of the agenda, based on a series of planning efforts and an all-faculty workshop. It identifies the scientific rationale, specific research themes, existing strengths, and opportunities, and the institutional approach that might be taken. This plan directly supports each of the five goals of the MSU Promise.
Pattern to Process: Development of a Signature Program
in Land Use and Land Cover Change
Interdisciplinary Environmental
Research Initiative at Michigan State University
Recent Projects:
Enterprise Zone Application Form and Guidelines
Procedures & necessary forms to apply for research space in the Research Enterprise Zone at Manly Miles.
Documents, papers, and reports which describe the program, including the faculty-wide Science Plan.
Relevant documents, reports and papers from other organizations working on LUCC problems. Please send others you feel are relevant or interesting.
A partial list of collaborators. Feel free to add your organization to the list by sending email.
PowerPoint presentations from meetings and workshops, and results of on-going work.
Press releases and press stories on land use issues.
Miscellaneous images and pictures related to land use and cover change.
Links to related sites, and collaborators.
Contact David Skole or Stuart Gage for further information: Phone (517) 432-7774