Beyond Buzzwords: Understanding the Challenges of Sustainability in Theory and Practice

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:13:24 -0500

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https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/events/141122

Featuring Dr. Andrea Pierce, University of Delaware

Sustainability is a guiding principle for governments, researchers, and communities—but what does it really mean? Despite its widespread use, defining sustainability remains a challenge, and its pursuit varies across disciplines.

Join the Grand Challenge Scholars Program (GCSP) and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) for an interdisciplinary discussion on the complexities of sustainability. Our keynote speaker,Andrea Pierce (Associate Professor in the Biden School of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware) will explore the broad foundations of sustainability while experts from anthropology, geography and environmental systems, engineering, and beyond will share insights on the real-world challenges and opportunities in building a sustainable future. Dr. Maria Sanchez will moderate a Q&A session and provide details on opportunities for students to get involved in the Grand Challenge Scholars Program.

Whether you are interested in policy, urban planning, environmental systems, or other sustainability-related fields, this event will offer a dynamic conversation on how sustainability is defined, debated, and applied in practice.

Food will be provided at the event, so we ask that you please register on myUMBC.