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Advancing action on nature, climate and sustainable development
The School of Environment & Sustainability (SES) at the IIHS (Institution Deemed to be) University examines and answers questions around sustainable development, socio-ecological and food systems, environmental and biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, adaptation to climate change impacts and risks, and nature-based solutions. With an emphasis on human settlements and socio-ecological systems, the SES works across a continuum from semi-natural ecosystems to mega-cities in India and the Global South.
The SES is developing innovative, evidence-based solutions to significant environmental and climatic changes, and socio-economic and cultural transitions in these geographies, linked to multi-scalar adaptive governance and urban transformations.
The SES is building an interdisciplinary platform for teaching, research, and applied research, and creating and disseminating knowledge to enable development pathways that balance environmental sustainability and climate change concerns with equity, social justice, and inclusive economic development.
The SES anchors the University’s Master’s in Sustainability Science and Practice and co-anchors the Master’s in Climate Change Science and Practice programmes, and supports the Doctoral Programme, as well as the University’s other Master’s programmes through the Core Courses and a range of Elective Courses.
The SES has contributed to teaching in the IIHS Urban Fellows Programme. In the Commons, it offered Urban Ecology and Climate Change, providing a foundational understanding of ecological systems in urban contexts. The Elective Courses (Changing Cities and Changing Climate; Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; and Urbanisation and One Health) explored critical intersections between urban development, environmental sustainability, and public health. Core Courses included Grow, Cook and Eat, which engaged students in hands-on learning about food systems and sustainability.
The SES’s research develops innovative, evidence-based solutions to sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, and risk challenges to enable socio-economic, socio-technical, and cultural transitions across scales in the wild-areas-to-megacity continuum.
For any inquiries or further information, please write to contactus@iihs.ac.in.
