Michelle Rutty
- Assistant Professor
- Community Sustainability
- 319 Natural Resources Building
- 517-353-9501
- mrutty@msu.edu
WEBSITE
https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/mrutty
BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Rutty is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism in the Department of Community Sustainability. Her research involves interdisciplinary scholarship that brings together social and natural scientific approaches (surveys, focus groups, micro-meteorological measurements, downscaled climate change scenarios) to examine human dimensions of climate change, particularly as it relates to the tourism sector.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
- Sustainable tourism
- Climate change and tourism
- Resource management
- Climate and society