The Environmental Social Sciences department will discover the causes of sustainability challenges, innovate new solutions to these challenges, and educate future scholars and leaders in how the social sciences can be used to understand and solve sustainability challenges. The department includes two areas: Environmental Behavioral Sciences and Global Environmental Policy.
Environmental Behavioral Sciences
Understand how the behaviors and choices made by individuals and organizations affect the world’s ability to achieve sustainability goals.
Global Environmental Policy
Study the economic and political roots of sustainability challenges, and help to design and evaluate policies and practices that address sustainability challenges.
Degree Programs
Undergraduate
The Environmental Social Sciences department does not have an undergraduate degree, however many of its faculty teach in the interdisciplinary Earth Systems Program, which offers a BS and co-terminal MS degree.
News
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Deborah Sivas, environmental law expert and professor of environmental social sciences, discusses the emerging “climate abundance” movement and what it could mean for environmental law.
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In recognition of her role in an important environmental rights case in South Africa, Mabilo has been selected as the 2026 winner of Stanford University’s highest environmental prize.
