To discover and implement sustainable solutions to world needs for reliable energy, a resilient environment, and robust economic development
In a time of widespread retrenchment in higher education, sustainability is one of the few areas of real growth. The reason is simple: the world faces serious challenges for which traditional scientific and scholarly excellence is necessary but not sufficient.
The science and engineering needed to develop clean technologies cannot be separated from the ecological study of Earth’s integrated human and natural systems or from the social science of human behavior and well-being.
