Areas of Emphasis and Intersections Home  Graduate Program Areas of Emphasis and Intersections
| Graduate students and faculty in the environmental studies program focus their research in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. The goal of the department is to encourage strong scholarship that brings knowledge from several disciplines to bear on pressing environment issues. Faculty and students work on both theory development and empirical research and contribute their work to disciplinary and topical journals. |
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| Students are expected to participate in the activities of on-going research groups within the department and also in interdepartmental and interdivisional research collaborations at UCSC. This allows students entering the graduate program the opportunity to work with leading researchers on a wide variety of environmental problems ranging across the social and natural sciences. A select list of interdepartmental research initiatives at UCSC would include the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, the Agro-Food Studies Research Group, the Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development, The STEPS Institute for Environmental Research, and the Center for Conservation Science and Policy.
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