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Water Scarcity Risk for the Global Trade Network
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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...
Optimizing the Environmental Performance of Food Product-Package Systems: A life Cycle Assessment of the Tradeoffs Between Packaging Design and Food Waste
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Recent emphasis on packaging light weighting and recyclability may be overshadowing a far greater influence of packaging on sustainability: product waste reduction through product protection and sa...
PISET: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Providing Power System Reserves with Demand Response and Distributed Energy Storage
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Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies (PISET)
This program seeds new interdisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, technology, and policy with fund...
Life Cycle Assessment of Food Packaging and Waste
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The goal of this LCA is to compare flexible plastic packaging to other packaging materials. This study is being carried out to explore and validate the balance between packaging type, packaging was...
Dow Distinguished Awards: De-silting Minor Irrigation Ponds in South India: The Sustainability of Decentralized Resource Distribution
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Introduction
This project was selected as a Dow Distinguished Award for Interdisciplinary Sustainability. To foster high-impact sustainability collaborations across the University of Mich...
Road Map of Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Priorities in Ann Arbor
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Michigan Mobility Transformation Center
The Michigan Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) is a government-industry partnership formed at U-M to transform global mobility by dramatically improving t...
The Carbon Environmental Performance of The FibARM® Structural Strengthening System
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Introduction
The Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan will conduct a research project to quantify the environmental performance of the FibARM® Structural Strengthening S...
Decoupling of Economic Growth and Environmental Pressure in China
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By modeling materialization trends for China’s production structure against the consumer demand structure, the relationship between economic growth and environmental pressure can be measured.
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Tokyo's Urban Metabolism
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From the Apartments of Kanto to the Forests of Siberia
Funding for this project is provided by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan ($25, 612). Newell also received a Weiser ...
University of Michigan's Technical Management of ALMMII LM3I
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American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute (ALMMII)
The practice of using lightweighting in military applications can yield many benefits. The National Research Cou...
The Business Case for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia
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Kellogg Company sources agricultural commodities from around the world to manufacture its products; the company is committed to enhancing the natural resources and livelihoods of the area...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Northport Renewable Energy Community Plan
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The Village of Northport intends to develop and implement a Renewable Energy Community Plan that will enable the village and township to attain their goal of becoming a 100 percent clean energy com...
Energy Systems Analysis of Autonomous Vehicles
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to provide transportation services that are currently offered by buses, taxis and delivery vehicles. A recent global market analysis by Navigant Consult...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Defining Next Generation Supply Chain Sustainability
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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...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Interdisciplinary Assessment of Utility Scale Solar Opportunities in the United States
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Our project conducted research in two phases. The first phase analyzed various factors - political, technical, regulatory, and geographic - that influence the uptake of utility scale solar across t...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Improving Energy Sustainability for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) Reservation
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The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) is a federally recognized tribe, with 4,559 Tribal Citizens residing on approximately 336 square miles of land in the northwestern part of Mich...
MASTER'S PROJECT: More than Me! Sustainable School Yard Design, Liberia
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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 ...
MASTER'S PROJECT: Building the Business Case for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia
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Kellogg Company sources agricultural commodities from around the world to manufacture its products; the company is committed to enhancing the natural resources and livelihoods of the areas and peop...
A Dynamic and Streamlined Stakeholder Engagement Tool for Evaluating Carbon Mitigation Options from Existing Power Plants in Michigan
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The objective of this project is to develop a novel methodology to evaluate alternative designs for a State Implementation Plan to comply with Clean Air Act Section 111(d) greenhouse gas emissions ...
Evaluation of Alternative Design Considerations for Renewable Portfolio Standards
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Project Objective:
This research project will employ and advance state of the art power systems modeling to evaluate an updated Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) for Michigan. In addition to met...
Dow Distinguished Awards: Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the City of Detroit - Institutionalization and Spatial Analysis
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Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability
The Graham Sustainability Institute administers the Dow Sustainability Fellows on behalf of the university. To foster high-im...
REFRESCH: Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource-Constrained Environments
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Background of U-M Third Century Initiative
As the University prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2017, the President and Provost have established the Third Century Initiative (TCI), a $50...
Nutritional benefits and environmental performance of dairy products
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New approaches are needed to assess in parallel the benefits and impacts of changes in the amount of dairy products in the US diet. Thus, we propose a framework to compare both nutritional/health b...