There are a growing number of programs and institutions doing research, study, and related activities that contribute significantly to the field of sustainability science, many of which are listed below. AAAS is sponsoring an ongoing review of university-based programs aimed at stimulating dialogue on how such programs might develop and interact. Additional projects relevant to science and technology for sustainability, submitted by members of the Network for Science and Technology for Sustainability, may be found on the Projects page. You may also find information on specific degree and certificate programs in these and other institutions in the Opportunities section.
New Programs:
The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)
In June 2009, a group of scientists organized a 1st International Conference on Sustainability Transitions in Amsterdam. Presenters came not only from all over Europe but also from US, Asia and Australia with some 100 papers being presented on a broad range of aspects of the governance and scientific analysis of sustainability transitions. The success of the conference confirmed that there is now a critical mass of researchers in Europe and beyond who are actively working on various aspects of sustainability transitions. A networking meeting held directly after the conference agreed to pursue the objective of setting up a networking (more)...
Graham Doctoral Fellow Program at the University of Michigan
The overarching goal of the Graham Doctoral Fellowship Program is to create a cohort of doctoral students who will ultimately engage in leadership roles within academia, industry, and government. To this end, the Graham Fellowship provides recipients with two-fold support: financial and interactive.
Each year, the Graham Institute competitively selects and admits six doctoral students into the Graham Doctoral Fellowship Program. As a recipient of this honor, each Graham Fellow receives $25,000 per year for two years to help support their doctoral-level research and studies. Applicants are reviewed by a (more)...
Editor's Picks:
Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS)
The Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) is a unique, international partnership between four of the world's leading science and technology universities:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHsustainability)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Tokyo (UT)
Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers)Created in 1997, the AGS today brings together hundreds of university scientists, engineers, and social scientists to address the complex issues that lie at the intersection of environmental, economic, and social goals. Together, we seek to (more)...
Ecological Society of America (ESA) Sustainability Science Initiative
The ESA Sustainability Science Initiative, supported by the Science
Office, is intended to develop a series of activities to examine and
articulate the intellectual foundations for a new sustainability
science. It began formally with a special session, “Ecological
Sustainability in a World of Constant Change: Developing a New Research
Agenda for ESA,” organized by Vice President for Science Gus Shaver,
President Nancy Grimm, and Science Director Cliff Duke at the 2005
Annual Meeting. A Steering Committee led by Gus Shaver and including
Terry Chapin, Cliff Duke, Ann Kinzig, Debra Peters, and Osvaldo Sala planned an NSF-sponsored workshop “Ecological Foundations of
Sustainability in a Constantly Changing World” held at Woods
Hole, (more)...
Integrated Research Systems for Sustainability Science (IR3S)
IR3S aims to promote and develop the newly emerging field of "sustainability" through collaboration with other leading groups around the world and thereby to establish a more integrated and holistic inquiry that we call "sustainability science." For this purpose, IR3S will establish leading international research platforms in this field. IR3S is a collaboration of the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, Ibaraki University, Hokkaido University, and Kyoto University.
Millennium Project
At the United
Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders placed development
at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the
Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which set clear targets for reducing poverty,
hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination
against women by 2015. In support of these goals, the Millennium
Project was launched to recommend the best strategies for achieving the MDGs.
Over a period of 3 years the Millennium Project will work to devise a
recommended plan of implementation that will allow all developing countries to
meet the MDGs and thereby substantially improve the human condition by 2015. The
Millennium Project's research focuses on identifying the operational priorities,
organizational (more)...
Resilience Alliance
The Resilience Alliance strives to address perceived gaps
in the understanding and resolution of complex issues
involving people and nature: the conceptual gap created by
partial theories and concepts inherent in scientific
disciplines; the knowledge gap between science and policy or
between understanding and action; and the communication gap,
created by limitations of existing media for scientific
discourse. They are working to address the first gap by
seeking consilience; the second by creating a virtual
(more)...
Science and Technology for Sustainability Program
The U.S. National Academies have established a Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) to encourage the use of science and technology to achieve long term sustainable development - increasing incomes, improving public health, and sustaining critical natural systems. The first two projects under the STS program are the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and a workshop series entitled "Strengthening Science-Based Decision Making." The Roundtable provides a forum for dialogue among leaders from the communities of research, government, business, and environmental protection with a (more)...
Sustainability Science Program
The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University's Center
for International Development works to design institutions, policies
and practices that promote sustainable development that meets human
needs while conserving the earthÂ’s life support systems. It addresses
the problems of sustainable development by:
advancing scientific understanding of human-environment systems;
improving
linkages between research and innovation communities on the one hand,
and policy and management communities on the other; and, more broadly;
building capacity for linking knowledge with action to promote sustainability.
The
Program was launched in September 2006. Our goal is to play a leading
role in advancing this problem-driven research by contributing to the
common interest, much in the way that problem (more)...
The Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)
In June 2009, a group of scientists organized a 1st International Conference on Sustainability Transitions in Amsterdam. Presenters came not only from all over Europe but also from US, Asia and Australia with some 100 papers being presented on a broad range of aspects of the governance and scientific analysis of sustainability transitions. The success of the conference confirmed that there is now a critical mass of researchers in Europe and beyond who are actively working on various aspects of sustainability transitions. A networking meeting held directly after the conference agreed to pursue the objective of setting up a networking (more)...
Additional Programs (Click to view list)
Nominations for additional programs or institutions to include on this page are welcome and should be sent to the Managing Editor via email at .
* The Sustainable Development (SD) Gateway, http://sdgateway.net, integrates the online information developed by members of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. In addition to over 1,200 documents available on SD topics, it provides services such as a calendar of events, a job bank, the Sustainability Web Ring, a roster of mailing lists (listservs) and news sites dealing with sustainable development.
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