Our Activities The Program promotes a systematic effort of scholarship, research, and other activities to help design and implement better rules and institutions to address the challenges of sustainable development:

• Research: Through basic and applied research involving social, political and physical scientists, lawyers and economists on specific problems of governance, the Program builds intellectual capital about the effectiveness of governance in a variety of settings.
  
  
• Teaching: The Program helps to educate future leaders through graduate courses and the supervision of interns, visiting fellows and Ph.D. students at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.


• Conferences, seminars and workshops: The Program organizes academic and non-academic conferences, seminars, and workshops addressing specific topics of interests to researchers, policy-makers and other practitioners.


• Capacity Building: The Program offers a range of capacity building activities on governance for sustainable development to policy-makers, legislators and other constituencies at UCSB and other forums.


• Publications: The Program sponsors books, articles, and occasional papers for publication to stimulate discussion and disseminate knowledge on governance for sustainable development.
  

Our Home The Program on Governance for Sustainable Development is a program of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. The Bren School offers highly competitive masters and Ph.D. programs in environmental science and management. With an emphasis on science, management, law and policy, the Bren School provides cutting-edge, interdisciplinary training and access to other acclaimed departments on the UCSB campus.

Ranked as one of the world's best research universities, the University of California at Santa Barbara is an internationally renowned center for teaching and research. Distinguished for its interdisciplinary programs and commitment to excellence and innovation, it has been ranked second in the top 10 U.S. public research universities (Graham and Diamond, 1997), and has received a range of awards and distinctions.