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Focus Areas

Loyola's School of Environmental Sustainability is developing interdisciplinary research teams to focus on our century's most vexing environmental problems. These collaborative research groups will concentrate on the following themes. 

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Biodiversity

This group explores the drivers of biodiversity loss and strategies for conserving and restoring ecosystem function through basic and applied research, habitat management, teaching, and community partnerships.

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Environment & Society

This group explores how economic, political, and cultural systems interact with the natural world. Team members work to understand interconnected ecological and social problems and develop solutions that promote social justice and protect the environment.

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Environmental Health & Toxicology

This group investigates how pollution, pesticide exposure, and other types of environmental degradation impact human health. Participating researchers also develop strategies for mitigating these threats.

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Urban agriculture student Cameron Anderson working in the SES garden

Sustainable Food Systems

Modern industrial food systems maximize short-term profits while creating severe environmental and social problems. This group co-generates research with community partners to advance policies and practices that ensure everyone has the right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods.

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Climate and Energy

Climate change is a complex and pressing global issue that will require solutions informed by multiple disciplines, including science, economics, politics, sociology, and ethics. This group works to make those solutions a reality.

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Loyola's School of Environmental Sustainability is developing interdisciplinary research teams to focus on our century's most vexing environmental problems. These collaborative research groups will concentrate on the following themes.