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School of Earth, Engergy & Environmental SciencesMatson Sustainability Science Research Laboratory

  • Biogeochemical Processes in Forest and Agricultural Systems


    Focusing on the effects of land use change and other human caused changes on biogeochemical processes and trace gas exchanges in tropical environments
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  • Sustainable Agriculture

     

    Carrying out interdisciplinary studies of intensive agricultural fertilization, water use, aquaculture development, and other land use changes in the tightly linked land-coast-sea system
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  • Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Adaptation


    On developing frameworks for vulnerability analyses in agricultural and coastal environments and measures and metrics that allow identification of those areas most vulnerable
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  • Sustainability Science

     

    Knowledge systems for sustainable development, vulnerability of human-environment systems, and other aspects of the management of human-environment systems
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The Matson Sustainability Science Research Laboratory is interested in sustainable agriculture, vulnerability analyses of human-environment systems, biogeochemical and ecological processes in forest and managed systems, and other areas in the emerging field of sustainability science.
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Recent Publications

Becker, A., P. Matson, M. Fischer, M. Mastrandrea. 2014. Towards seaport resilience for climate change adaptation: Stakeholder perceptions of hurricane impacts in Gulfport (MS) and Providence (RI).  Progress in Planning.  DOI 10.1016/j.progress.2013.11.002.

Vitousek, P.M., and P.A. Matson.  2014. "Agricultural Nutrient Use and Its Environmental Consequences" pp. 269-285.  In The Evolving Sphere of Food Security, Naylor, R.L. (ed).  Oxford University Press: New York, NY.

Bierbaum, R.M., and P.A. Matson. 2013. Energy in the Context of Sustainability. Daedalus 142(1): 146-161.

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