Resume

• 2006

  PhD

  Environment & Resources

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 2003

  Chinese

  Master in City Planning

  International environmental policy

  Master in Engineering

  Water Resource Engineering

• 1995

  BS

  Earth Sciences

• Natural Resource Management

  Environmental Science

  Environmental Education

  Program Management

  GIS

  Environmental Policy

  Statistics

  Environmental Issues

  Fortran

  Field Work

  ArcGIS

  University Teaching

  Sustainability

  Policy Analysis

  Climate Change

  Land Use

  Matlab

  Mentoring

  Sustainable Development

  Spatial Analysis

  Living With Locusts: Connecting Soil Nitrogen

  Locust Outbreaks

  Livelihoods

  and Livestock Markets

  Jon F Harrison

  James E Elser

  Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are systems of feedback linking people and ecosystems. A feature of CHANS is that this ecological feedback connects people across time and space. Failing to account for these dynamic links results in intertemporal and spatial externalities

  reaping benefits in the present but imposing costs on future and distant people

  such as occurs with overgrazing. Recent findings about locust–nutrient dynamics create new opportunities to address spatiodynamic ecosystem externalities and develop new sustainable strategies to understand and manage locust outbreaks. These findings in northeast China demonstrate that excessive livestock grazing promotes locust outbreaks in an unexpected way: by lowering plant nitrogen content due to soil degradation. We use these human–locust–livestock–nutrient interactions in grasslands to illustrate CHANS concepts. Such empirical discoveries provide opportunities to address externalities such as locust outbreaks

  but society's ability to act may be limited by preexisting institutional arrangements.

  Living With Locusts: Connecting Soil Nitrogen

  Locust Outbreaks

  Livelihoods

  and Livestock Markets

  Jon F Harrison

  James E Elser

  Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are systems of feedback linking people and ecosystems. A feature of CHANS is that this ecological feedback connects people across time and space. Failing to account for these dynamic links results in intertemporal and spatial externalities

  reaping benefits in the present but imposing costs on future and distant people

  such as occurs with overgrazing. Recent findings about locust–nutrient dynamics create new opportunities to address spatiodynamic ecosystem externalities and develop new sustainable strategies to understand and manage locust outbreaks. These findings in northeast China demonstrate that excessive livestock grazing promotes locust outbreaks in an unexpected way: by lowering plant nitrogen content due to soil degradation. We use these human–locust–livestock–nutrient interactions in grasslands to illustrate CHANS concepts. Such empirical discoveries provide opportunities to address externalities such as locust outbreaks

  but society's ability to act may be limited by preexisting institutional arrangements.

  Living With Locusts: Connecting Soil Nitrogen

  Locust Outbreaks

  Livelihoods

  and Livestock Markets

  Brian E.

  Robinson

  CDM

  McGill University

  University of Minnesota

  United States Peace Corps

  Montreal

  Canada Area

  Associate Professor

  McGill University

  Lecturer at Sichuan University in Chengdu

  China

  United States Peace Corps

  Global Environmental Leadership Fellow

  Institute on the Environment

  University of Minnesota

  Assistant Professor

  McGill University

  Water Resources Engineer

  Specialized in environmental systems studies (e.g. hydrologic studies

  land use analysis

  watershed modeling) and storm water and sewer system modeling.

  CDM