Program Initiatives

At Harvard, there is exciting work underway on problem-driven research at the intersection of environment and development to address the WEHAB-plus sustainability challenges. WEHAB refers to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's "WEHAB agenda" of sustainability challenges as presented at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development: Water and sanitation; Energy; Health; Agriculture productivity and food security; Biodiversity and ecosystem management; and habitation. Each year the Sustainability Science Program seeks to develop a major new initiative focused on current policy challenge of sustainable development. For the launch year of each new initiative, the Program focuses its research funding, fellows' selection, and dialogues between researchers and policy makers on the selected policy challenge. A lower-level support for each initiative in the second and third year allows for consolidation of the findings of the first year and, if appropriate, development of other sources of support to continue key aspects of the work. Links to some of other initiatives and projects underway at Harvard are also provided. Additional activities are described on the web pages of the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Center for International Development.

Land-Water Sustainability
Noel Michele Holbrook

Water and Development
Michael Kremer, Sendhil Mullainathan, Nava Ashraf, Mathew Jukes

Biofuels and Globalization
Henry Lee, Robert Lawrence, and Ricardo Hausmann

Suggestions for additional projects should be sent to nancy_dickson@harvard.edu and will be reviewed by program management.

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