Sustainability Research

Research Areas

PSU's expertise is concentrated in two main, inter-connected areas – the coupling of human and natural systems, and sustainability in urban and urbanizing communities. PSU also has particular strengths in two cross-cutting topical areas – metrics and evaluation, and mechanisms that effect change and foster engagement at the individual, organizational, societal and ecosystem levels.

This expertise is applied in a number of targeted research areas listed below. Click on a research area to view the faculty working in that field.

  1. Community Food Systems
  2. Economic Sustainability
  3. Environmental Science and Green Technology Development
  4. Environmental Sustainability
  5. Integrated Water Resource Management
  6. Intelligent Transportation Systems
  7. Social Sustainability
  8. Sustainable Business Processes and Practices
  9. Sustainable Urban Development