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| AGS Research Portfolio |
The issues around global sustainability
- energy efficiency, clean and adequate water, fresh air, and
sufficient food for an expanding population - are among the most
challenging problems on earth today. With strengths in science,
technology, and the social sciences, the AGS partner universities
together commit substantial academic and research resources to meet
these challenges through three goals:
- Improving scientific understanding of global environmental
challenges
- Development of technology and policy tools to help societies
reconcile ecological and economic concerns
- Education of a new generation of leaders committed to meet the
challenges of sustainable development
Since it's
inception, the AGS has supported more than 75 research projects at
the partner institutes.
Flagship Programs
Today, to
better leverage the research, educational and outreach capabilities
of the AGS member universities, the AGS has initiated a series of
AGS Flagship
Programs, through which greater synergy for the AGS would be
achieved. The focus of the initial Flagship is energy. The
“Near-Term Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future” program is
focusing on the need to identify–and communicate to decision
makers–robust “transitional systems” or energy pathways that bridge
today’s energy technologies, infrastructures, and markets, to future
“sustainable” systems. A second Flagship program on food and water,
“Secure Ecosystem Services for a Nourished World”, has also recently
been launched. The program will identify development paths for
social and technical systems, which aim for a nourished world in
balance with the provisioning ecosystem.
It is the mission
of the AGS to support policy-ready research that contributes to
changing patterns of behavior and to improving policy and decision
making for sustainable
development.
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