How is Michigan's School of Natural Resources addressing Ecosystem Management?

The University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment is a leader in ecosystem management research and training through a series of interconnected strategies that are the core of the Ecosystem Management Initiative (EMI). EMI's primary objectives are to:

(1) Build the skills, knowledge and leadership capabilities of natural resource management practitioners and policy makers through programs in

• Undergraduate Education
• Graduate Education
• Mid-Career Education

(2) Provide practitioners with images of success that can be emulated in management through ecosystem management-related

• Books
• Articles and Reports
• Projects
• Case Studies and Lessons Learned

(3) Develop a place - an Ecosystem Management crossroads - to facilitate interchange among practitioners, researchers and policy makers by coordinating and participating in

• Practitioner, Researcher, Policy-Maker Dialogues and Speakers
• EMI Newsletters and Program Highlights

(4) Develop and test new ideas about ecosystems and their management; and transfer these ideas to practitioners, scholars, and policy makers by mean of

• Research and Assessment Program
• Stakeholder Meetings