CHANS-Net: The International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems

CHANS-Net: International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems facilitates communication and collaboration among scholars from around the world who are interested in coupled human and natural systems (e.g., coupled human-environment systems, social-ecological systems, ecological-economic systems, population-environment systems) and who strive to find sustainable solutions that both benefit the environment and enable people to thrive.

CHANS-Net is sponsored by the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems program of the National Science Foundation, with coordination provided by the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University.

Advisory Board

	Stephen Carpenter Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology Center for Limnology University of Wisconsin, Madison Homepage
	William Clark Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Homepage
	Ruth DeFries Denning Professor of Sustainable Development Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) Columbia University Homepage
	Thomas Dietz Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program Assistant Vice President for Environmental Research Michigan State University Homepage
	Carl Folke Director, The Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Science Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Sweden Homepage
	Simon Levin Moffett Professor of Biology Director, Center for BioComplexity Princeton University Homepage
	Elinor Ostrom Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Indiana University, Bloomington Research Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Homepage
	Billie Lee Turner II Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society, Arizona State Univerity Research Professor, Clark University Homepage
	Brian Walker Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Program Director and Chair of Board, Resilience Alliance Homepage

Coordination

	Jianguo (Jack) Liu, CHANS-Net Principal Investigator Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Michigan State University Homepage

Contact

If you have questions about CHANS-Net or have suggestions and questions, please contact: The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 517-432-5025

Sponsors

	NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow
	Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.
	Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.