Estimation of the Number of Immigrants and Refugees in Lansing (Michigan)
Fall 2008
Fall 2008
However, immigrants do not take up general residence in the US. That is, they settle in local communities. Therefore, not only are accurate data needed at the national level, they are essential at the local level as well in order to guide policy and plan for services. While there are a number of federal data sources and analysis mechanisms in place, the Lansing (MI) area has no such mechanism. The present report describes a recent effort to generate serviceable data on the immigrant and refugee population for the Lansing area. We begin by describing the impetus for the present research project.
By Steven J. Gold, Ph.D., Wilma Novales Wibert, Ph.D., Vera Bondartsova, MA, John Melcher, MS, Lori A. Post, Ph.D., Brian J. Biroscak, MS, MA
By Steven J. Gold, Ph.D., Wilma Novales Wibert, Ph.D., Vera Bondartsova, MA, John Melcher, MS, Lori A. Post, Ph.D., Brian J. Biroscak, MS, MA
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THE LANSING TRI-COUNTY BIO-MANUFACTURING FEASIBILITY STUDY
Fall 2008
Fall 2008
This study assesses the potential to create and sustain a bio-based manufacturing capacity in the Lansing Tri-County Region. To determine this potential, a rigorous analysis of the needed bio-manufacturing inputs, industrial infrastructure, intellectual capacity and regional leadership was conducted. While this analysis applies to the general bio-manufacturing sector with short-term implications for manufacturing such consumer goods as home products, computers, textiles, clothing, and furniture, our focus is the automotive bio-manufacturing sector. The orientation of this study is based on a recognition of the unique economic strength and potential the Tri-County Region has in the global automotive
manufacturing market.
Research Team Contributors: Rex L. LaMore, John Melcher, J. D. Snyder, Kent Sugiura, Erin Whitney, Kyle Wilkes
Research Team Contributors: Rex L. LaMore, John Melcher, J. D. Snyder, Kent Sugiura, Erin Whitney, Kyle Wilkes
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The Lansing Tri-County Bio-Manufacturing Feasibility Study
Evaluating Regional Capacity and Performance in the Emerging Automotive Bio-Manufacturing Sector of the Global Bioeconomy
Executive Summary
Evaluating Regional Capacity and Performance in the Emerging Automotive Bio-Manufacturing Sector of the Global Bioeconomy
Executive Summary
Municipal Economic Development Tool Kit
The project aims at dissemination of the best practice in urban economic development among local government officials, extension specialists, economic developers, and researchers nationally and internationally. To achieve this goal, the project collects, publishes and promotes a set of basic economic development tools used by practitioners and extension specialists around the globe. The volume provides a description of development tools including practical and user-friendly advice about how to address common critical issues of municipal economic development. Each tool is contributed by an independent author (or a group). Then they were carefully reviewed and edited by experts from GUSP, LED, KEI and KSE. However, the content and the opinions presented in each tool are those of the authors and may not reflect the views of editors, founders or sponsors of the project.
Municipal Economic Development Tool Kit
Sustainability: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and Gender Sensitivity
Sustainability: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and Gender Sensitivity The importance of sustainable design and equality in spatial planning is a growing concern in the United States. Much of this is due to the increasing population as well as the focus on protecting our natural resources and reducing the impact of development on our planet. Sustainability is defined as "the ability to achieve continuing economic prosperity while protecting the natural systems of the planet and providing a high quality of life for its people" (http://www.epa.gov). According to James P. Cramer, chairmen and principal at The Greenway Group Inc., "many [professionals] have been talking about sustainability for over 4 decades" (http://www.buildings.com). Because sustainability is becoming a hot issue, planners, developers, government officials and citizens are expanding their knowledge on the topic and developing ways to protect our natural systems.
By Elise Fields,
February 19, 2007
February 19, 2007
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Economic Development in a Global Knowledge Economy:
A Guide for Local Practice
The Guide for Local Practice is the latest in a series of practice tools prepared in response to this challenge by the multidisciplinary Knowledge Economy Research Team of Michigan State University's Center for Community and Economic
Development. These tools are intended to inform - and to help transform - local
economic development planning and practice among communities. This Guide
contains information that we hope will stimulate new ideas and help to reshape
local processes, priorities and initiatives into new and more effective forms. The
Guide builds upon prior work of the knowledge economy team examining
implications of the knowledge economy for local planning and economic
development practice in distressed communities.
Principal Author: Faron Supanich-Goldner, Contributors:Rex L. LaMore, John Melcher, Kenneth E. Corey, Mark Wilson, Diane Doberneck, Steffen Hampe
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