Sustainability cannot be realized until we, first, make it a social priority; secondly, discover the characteristics that make human activities sustainable; and thirdly, craft public policies that encourage sustainable practices. By connecting government leaders, policymakers, and management practitioners with researchers and cutting-edge information and tools, we strive to make sustainability a real-world practice rather than a theoretical goal.
Sustainability Partnership
The Sustainability Partnership engages local and state policy-makers, resource managers, and industry leaders in planning for sustainable urban growth, social and economic development, resource management, and environmental protection.
Advancing Conservation in a Social Context
This project investigates the tradeoffs between human well-being and biodiversity-conservation goals, and between conservation and other economic, political, and social agendas at local, national, and international scales.
Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy
The Consortium addresses issues pertaining to the ecologically and socioeconomically fragile environment along the US-Mexico border.
Decision Center for a Desert City
This Center studies the decision processes used to plan and manage water resources and urbanization.
Arizona Hydrological Information System
This project is developing the information infrastructure needed to access data on water-related research, technology, planning, education, and outreach from multiple sources in the Southwest.
Arizona Water Institute
The Water Institute builds economic opportunity in Arizona by improving access to water information, assisting communities and local governments with technology transfer, and helping water-related industries.
Decision Theater
The Decision Theater is an immersive, interactive, 3D-visualization facility for collaborative decision making.
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
The Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes is an intellectual network aimed at enhancing the contribution of science and
technology to society's pursuit of equality, justice, freedom, and overall quality of life. The Consortium creates knowledge
and methods, cultivates public discourse, and fosters policies to help decision makers and institutions grapple with the
immense power and importance of science and technology as society charts a course for the future.
Energy,
Science and Policy Initiative (ESPI)
ESPI is an interdisciplinary research community at Arizona
State University — and a network of scholars around
the planet — whose goal is to analyze the social implications
of energy system transformations.
National
Center of Excellence (NCE) on SMART Innovations for Urban
Climate and Energy
The NCE was founded to become the premier national
laboratory for developing the next generation of Sustainable
Materials and Renewable Technologies (SMART).
100 Cities Project
This project uses remote-sensing technology to detect patterns of urbanization and their environmental consequences in 100 cities across the globe.
Urbanization and Global Environmental Change
This collaborative project is building greater knowledge and understanding of the bidirectional interactions between global environmental change and cities, present at local, regional, and global scales, and integrating the work of decision makers, practitioners, and academic researchers.
Greater Phoenix 2100
GP2100 is a network of ASU and community researchers dedicated to using knowledge to create better lives for future generations.
Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER)
Through interdisciplinary projects integrating natural sciences, social science, and engineering, CAP LTER examines the effects of urbanization on a desert ecosystem and vice versa.
Urban Atmosphere Project
The "Urban Air" project studies the exchange of chemical elements between land and atmosphere in urban systems.
Integrated Analysis of Robustness in Dynamic Social Ecological Systems
This project asks: "Why are some socioecological systems more successful in navigating environmental disturbances and change than others?"
