The USC Center for Sustainability Solutions leverages, elevates and enhances USC’s existing sustainability-related teaching, research, and outreach with the goal of positioning USC as the preeminent partner for international agencies, national and local governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations to develop solutions to the most pressing urban environmental challenges, and advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Our mission is to advance the application of basic science and technological solutions to specific urban contexts, with an eye on developing practical solutions and sound public policy for a more sustainable and equitable future.
LEADERSHIP AND STAFF
The Center for Sustainability Solutions leadership team consists of prominent scholars in their fields of study. Individually, each represent important disciplinary pillars for sustainability solutions. Collectively, they reflect the interdisciplinary collaboration needed to solve intractable and complex sustainability challenges.
VISION
The USC Center for Sustainability Solutions contributes to the advancement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the grand challenges for engineering. We nurture the entrepreneurial spirit of our sustainability scholars, engage with stakeholders, and work around the work to advance the application of basic science and technological options to specific urban contexts, with an eye on developing practical solutions and sound public policy for a more sustainable and equitable future.
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH
At the Center for Sustainability Solutions, we:
- Convene
- Evaluate
- Advance
- Transfer
- Educate