Swackhamer, DeborahPolasky, StephenFoufoula-Georgiou, EfiJohnson, LucindaKapuscinski, AnneKarkkainen, BradleyMcMurry, PeterMulla, DavidReich, PeterThorleifson, HarveyTilman, DavidBinks, Jonathan2008-02-262008-02-262006-09-25https://hdl.handle.net/11299/5704Document describing the objectives and structure of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota.In the words of University of Minnesota President Robert H. Bruininks: “The environment poses such a broad and important array of interrelated issues that the participation of scholars from diverse fields will be critical to our efforts to understand and offer solutions to protect our natural world.” This document lays out the anticipated role, structure and operation, or “blueprint,” of a new University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment (IonE).en-USeducationresearchenvironmentReport