Center for Governance and Sustainability

at the University of Massachusetts Boston

About Us

The Center for Governance and Sustainability seeks to bring academic rigor to real-world policy challenges in environment, development, and sustainability governance.

The Center serves as:

  • Information hub through systematic data collection and management of academic research on governance and sustainability structures, principles, and best practices across geographic and institutional levels
  • Brutal analyst through the application of a diversity of analytical tools and methods from a variety of fields and disciplines and the provision of targeted analytical input into policy processes
  • Honest broker through the convening of formal and informal dialogues among scholars, students and practitioners