Projects

Several hundred cities in the US and abroad, including 40 of the world's most populous cities (the C40 cities) have announced goals that include environmental sustainability, health, climate-resili...

Made possible by The Dow Chemical Company, the University of Michigan’s Dow Sustainability Fellows Program supports full-time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to findin...

This project aims at evaluating risks for the global trade network posed by water scarcity. This objective will be achieved by developing and applying a probabilistic network analysis framework. Ba...

The goal of this project is to engage students at the More than Me Academy in a participatory landscape design project that will provide designs for a new school yard landscape. More that Me is an ...

With growing globalization, complexity has increased in the supply chain system. To mitigate the potential sustainability risks, comprehensive evaluation and assessment should be developed to provi...

Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability The Graham Sustainability Institute administers the Dow Sustainability Fellows on behalf of the university.  To foster high-im...

This project seeks to understand the broad, complex and potentially unanticipated impacts on humans and the environment that could emerge from the deployment of emerging innovative technologies cur...

Recent advances in directional drilling have made extraction of natural gas and oil from shale formations economically viable via high-volume hydraulic fracturing, a process by which a mixture of w...

Summary of Project Idea: This project applied social science knowledge of landscape cues to care and perceived safety to design green infrastructure best management practices (BMPs) for urban sto...

The term infrastructure ecology was coined by the PI as a metaphor to describe the complex interdependence between infrastructure, environmental, economic and social components in urban areas. At t...

Water budgets are of particular interest in the Los Angeles water/energy system. Despite large water imports, much rainfall currently goes to waste as surface runoff through extensive flood control...

Background/Objective: The Systems Assessment Group of Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory is in the process of upgrading its GREET 2 model for vehicle cycle analys...

Urban areas are complex, adaptive, emergent systems composed of sub-systems—built environment, metabolic flows, governance networks, and social dynamics—that themselves are multi-scalar, networked,...

Michigan Green Communities (MGC) is the largest statewide network within the Midwest Regional Sustainability Network (MRSN). MGC currently has the support of over 80 local governments and universit...

In developing a plan for improving sustainability at the Huron-Clinton Metroparks, the group investigated numerous potential strategies for reducing environmental impacts at the parks. This project...

Business leaders, including the University of Michigan leadership, are defining sustainability initiatives that reduce their electrical power consumption and CO2 emissions in an effort to not only ...

ObjectivesAt the request of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the objectives of this research effort are to benchmark the wet weather protocols and practices of the several sta...

Demand for lithium to use in batteries is expected to grow as wireless devices and electric vehicles proliferate, and there might not be enough lithium to meet the demand. This project answers the ...

Develop LCI data for water and wastewater treatment systems, including municipal systems in Oregon. This task includes researching the environmental burdens associated with municipal drinking water...

The Zambezi River Basin is home to 40 million people who rely on the river for drinking water, fisheries, irrigation, hydropower production, mining and industry, ecosystem maintenance, and other us...

MUSES II Major industrialized countries around the world and several U.S. states are currently designing, or considering designing, policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ...