A Brisbane university has created a new cross-faculty centre to address the world’s most pressing environmental and societal challenges.
Professor Jonathan Rhodes said QUT’s Centre for Environment and Society brought together more than 100 researchers.
Professor Rhodes, the Centre’s director, said the aim was to harness the university’s strengths in climate adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable consumption, to drive interdisciplinary research to guide communities, industry, and governments toward a more sustainable and resilient future.
“We’re facing unprecedented environmental challenges, from climate change and biodiversity loss, to natural disasters and unsustainable production systems,” he said.
“The Centre for Environment and Society is designed to generate real-world solutions by integrating technological and scientific innovation with social and economic insight.
“It’s about creating impact through partnerships and co-developed research that responds directly to the needs of communities and ecosystems.”
Professor Rhodes said the centre’s major research themes included:
- Climate mitigation and adaptation.
- Ecosystems and biodiversity conservation.
- Resilient communities and infrastructure.
- Sustainable consumption and production
