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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

Liu, X.-J., P. Vitousek, Y.H. Chang, W.F. Zhang, P. Matson, and F.-S. Zhang. 2016. Evidence for a historic change occurring in China.  Environmental Science and Technology 50: 505-506.

Matson, P.A., W.C. Clark, and K. Andersson.  2016.  Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.  248 pp.

W.C. Clark, N.M. Dickson, and P.A. Matson (eds.).  2016.  Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development.  Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol 113, no. 17, pp. 4570-4622.  Articles from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development, held April 3-4, 2008 at the National Academy of Sciences.  Washington, D.C. 

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