Fellows mentioned in this story: Maxine Burkett

From Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability News:

A new center at Stanford aims to ensure that the pursuit of sustainability strengthens human dignity and ecological resilience. Bridging scholarship, policy, and practice, the Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures will focus on advancing research and education that integrate community-level needs into sustainability efforts.

Housed in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the center will serve as the intellectual and cultural hub for interdisciplinary communities across campus and beyond who are dedicated to addressing the interconnected challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, and inequity.

“Durable sustainability solutions demand collaboration across law, engineering, ecology, economics, and lived experience. That complexity is not a liability; it is the source of solutions that last,” said Maxine Burkett, the center’s founding faculty director and the Emerson Collective Professor of Climate, Environment, and Society. “The Futures Center is an initiative of collective imagination and transformation, fostering research across disciplines and communities to advance human and nature-centered, solution-oriented climate action.”

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