UM School of Natural Resources News

SNRE Dean Bierbaum, World Bank chief call for climate action in 'Science'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:44:01 -0500

The climate future can be shaped for the better only if the global community acts now, together and differently by embracing both science and collective solutions.

U-M plans alumni outreach as Dean Bierbaum addresses China's environmental leaders

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:17:42 -0500

The University of Michigan is reaching out to alumni and friends in Beijing, China, to coincide with a regional lecture on climate change by Rosina M. Bierbaum, dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment.

SNRE research institute carries on work with Nobel Prize winner

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:14:26 -0400

Her theories on economic governance and common property earned Elinor Ostrom a share of this year's Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. But since 2006, a major initiative she founded to grow and share applications of her research has been housed at the School of Natural Resources and Environment

Professor Ostrom, who received an honorary degree from U-M in 2006, started the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research network in the early 1990s. Its focus then, as now, was on collecting and analyzing data at local levels related to forest governance.

World Bank releases Development Report 2010, co-authored by SNRE Dean Bierbaum

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:45:00 -0400

Today's enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change -- the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones. Understanding what climate change means for development policy is the central aim of the World Development Report 2010, or WDR 2010.

SNRE-led research team receives NASA grant to study humans, adaptation and climate change on Mongolian Plateau

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:24:23 -0400

Researchers at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), in partnership with collaborators at Eastern Michigan University and the Chinese and Mongolian Academies of Sciences, have received a $900,000 grant from NASA to study human adaptation to climate change on the Mongolian Plateau.

President Obama names SNRE Dean Bierbaum to PCAST, the national science advisory council

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:39:18 -0400

Members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) were recently announced during the annual National Academy of Sciences meeting. Among those present were (from left): SNRE Dean Rosina M.

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U-M in global challenge to Power Down for the Planet

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:24:45 -0400

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New report highlights climate change adaptation in Great Lakes Region

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:43:11 -0400

Climate Workshop Report

Rising air and water temperatures, decreasing ice cover, and shorter winters are some of the ecosystem trends predicted to continue in the Great Lakes region as a result of climate change.

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Four SNRE professors named to national climate change panels

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:34:20 -0400

The University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment is well represented on a series of climate-change panels being convened by the National Academies.

Four of the 90 national experts asked to serve on the four panels are SNRE faculty:

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SNRE's Hoffman leads panel discussion at event featuring Gov. Granholm, Danish ambassador

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:11:15 -0500

The °Climate Group, in collaboration with Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and the Royal Danish Embassy, today (Thursday, March 5) convened government and business leaders at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to discuss how to bring low carbon manufacturing jobs and industry to the Midwestern region. The Climate Group, an international non-profit organization that assists corporate and governmental partners in the transition to a low carbon economy, convened the summit to support the region in job creation and business investment in environmentally-sensitive industries and technologies.

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