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Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

This Theme aims to tackle challenges in adapting to and mitigating climate change from ecological, policy, social and Indigenous perspectives

Ecosystems and Biodiversity Conservation

This Theme aims to take a strongly integrative approach to the challenges of conserving the planet’s critical biodiversity and ecosystems, drawing on technological, ecological, and policy solutions.

Sustainable Production and Consumption

This Theme aims to tackle the challenge of achieving sustainable consumption and production of goods and services through policy and supply chain analysis and innovation in materials technology and urban design.

Resilient Communities and Infrastructure

This Theme aims to tackle the challenge of ensuring that communities, infrastructure and cities are resilient to environmental change, particularly climate change, from social, economic, and health perspectives.

About us

The Centre for Environment and Society is a QUT University Research Centre that strives to deliver research innovation and impact for a more environmentally sustainable and resilient planet. The Centre brings together QUT’s research capabilities in climate change, biodiversity conservation, community & infrastructure resilience, and sustainable production and consumption to find new solutions to current and future global challenges. The Centre adopts a strong multidisciplinary approach needed for transformational change, drawing on QUT’s capabilities across all five Faculties. By integrating diverse knowledge systems, spanning the natural, physical, and social sciences, economics, humanities, law, arts, and design, we critically confront the causes of environmental harm and co-create transformative solutions for people and nature.

Innovation and impact for an environmentally sustainable and resilient planet

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