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Sustainable Futures Lab

OUR MISSION

The Sustainable Futures Lab integrates research, practice, and community engagement to explore positive urban futures. Our goal is to collectively analyze, visualize and transition toward more resilient cities. 
Through transdisciplinary approaches, we aim to explore possible futures, the underlying premises they depend on, and the transformations needed to bring them about. Our grand challenge is to reimagine the relationship between humans and the environment.

NEWS

Catch up on the Atlanta Transformative Leaders Series (ATLS) on our YouTube channel!

Resilient Urban Futures, with contributions from Dr. David Iwaniec, Dr. Lelani Mannetti, and Dr. Robert Hobbins, is out and available to download now!

Transitions & Transformations

Positive Futures

Environmental Justice & Equity

Climate Change & Extreme Events

Urban Ecosystems & Nature-Based Solutions

Science – Policy Interface

Infrastructure and the Anthropocene

Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS)

Co-production & Participatory Research

Research on the Rise

The Converging Social, Ecological, and Technological Infrastructure Systems (SETS) for Urban Resilience project is a five-year, multi-city initiative to develop an urban resilience conceptual framework and convergent urban systems science for cities to test and deploy.
The Converging Social, Ecological, and Technological Infrastructure Systems (SETS) for Urban Resilience project is a five-year, multi-city initiative to develop an urban resilience conceptual framework and convergent urban systems science for cities to test and deploy.
The Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project links networks in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and Latin America, and globally to enhance connectivity among the world's scholars and practitioners and improve the prospects for global urban sustainability.
The Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project links networks in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and Latin America, and globally to enhance connectivity among the world's scholars and practitioners and improve the prospects for global urban sustainability.
The Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) is a multi-city project to enhance urban resilience of coupled social, ecological, and built infrastructure systems in the face of rising challenges to cities from global climate change.
The Urban Resilience to Extreme Events Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) is a multi-city project to enhance urban resilience of coupled social, ecological, and built infrastructure systems in the face of rising challenges to cities from global climate change.
The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program advances research and education on urban ecology and urban socioecological systems. It is one of two LTER sites funded by the National Science Foundation that explicitly studies urban ecology.
The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) program advances research and education on urban ecology and urban socioecological systems. It is one of two LTER sites funded by the National Science Foundation that explicitly studies urban ecology.
Drawdown Georgia is a research initiative to lead the state of Georgia on a path to carbon neutrality via strategies that strengthen the state’s economy and improve the quality of life for all Georgians.
Drawdown Georgia is a research initiative to lead the state of Georgia on a path to carbon neutrality via strategies that strengthen the state’s economy and improve the quality of life for all Georgians.