The Sustainable Earth Institute (SEI) is currently focusing on four sustainability challenge themes that require a systems approach to examine the larger picture of interacting factors. These challenge themes transcend disciplinary research and bring together a critical mass of interdisciplinary expertise to look at the issue holistically rather than in isolation.
Interdisciplinary challenge themes
Bringing together researchers across the University on key sustainability challenges
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