Institute for Global Sustainable Development

Sustainability Spotlight Initiative
Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD)

Connecting ideas, policies, people and action as a gateway to sustainable
Environmental Governance

To promote principles of good governance in the context of environmental policies to meet global biodiversity conservation targets, increase climate change adaptation and improve human well being.
Complex Eco-systems & Climate Change

This theme aims to push the boundaries of our knowledge and practices to underpin transformation to a more sustainable and resilient future in the Anthropocene.
Resilience

We focus on understanding change through resilience –human, societal, inter-species, planetary – as a way of living, and governing complexity, with a focus on the community of relations.

Sustainability Research at Warwick

We are a community of scholars from across the university, committed to delivering world-leading research on global sustainable development.

Research Themes and Projects

Our work focuses on environmental governance; complex ecosystems and climate change; resilience.

IGSD at COP 29

Follow our journey and explore how IGSD is driving impactful change on a global stage.

News

Fri 22 Nov '24

SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow participates in the launch of MORDOR report

Tue 19 Nov '24

SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow delivers a guest lecture at the University of Lausanne

SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow participates in the GCC-Central Asia roundtable

SHAPEDEM-EU Research Fellow at the UCA Digital Forum

Fri 18 Oct '24

Profs. Roberta Bivins and Elena Korosteleva meet SLS staff to discuss spotlight opportunities

IGSD Events

Mon 25 Nov '24

2pm:

Policy Brief Writing Workshop

Thu 28 Nov '24

Unsettling the Anthropos: Reworlding Climate Knowledge for Epistemic Plurality

12pm:

Autoethnography Reading Group

Research Community Events

Fri 29 Nov '24