Institute of Social and Environmental Sustainability
The La Trobe Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability takes a multidisciplinary approach to sustainability research. A great deal of research at the University is directly or indirectly related to issues of sustainability, and members of the Institute belong to all faculties and many of the centres of the University.
It is becoming more common for investigators on a single project to have multidisciplinary perspectives. The Institute aims to encourage and support this across the social, environmental and economic.
The institute began with three research themes that reflect the strengths of research at La Trobe University:
- water, natural sciences and land management
- community resilience, health and social justice
- sustainability governance, measurement and corporate social responsibility.
We have found that many projects overlap on these themes.
Read the Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability's Research Report outlining current and future research opportunities [421 KB].
Come and feed your mind at the 2012 Lunchtime Seminar Series
The Institute’s Lunchtime Seminar Series asks presenters to share their thoughts on using interdisciplinarity to solve complex problems in their own experience and specialty areas. In the first half of 2012, the Institute welcomes:
- Prof Gunilla Öberg (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Dr Anna Roberts (Senior Research Scientist at the Victorian Department of Primary Industries)
- Dr Campbell Gemmell (Chief Executive of the Environment Protection Authority, South Australia) and
- Prof Stefan Schaltegger (Center for Sustainability Management, Leuphana University, Germany).
Email generations@latrobe.edu.au for more details.