The University of Sheffield
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences

ICOSS Centres

Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability

The Centre is to be a leading world class centre of excellence in multi-disciplinary research, development and deployment of innovative ways to advance the understanding of energy, environment and sustainability for a low carbon future.

The vision of the centre is to:
  • To demonstrate the role, significance and impact of Social Science in energy, environment and sustainability for academics, industrialists, policy makers and wider society.
  • To advance the research and development of the world challenges on energy, environment and sustainability from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
  • To play a key role in the conversion of low carbon and sustainability science and technology to impact on economic, business/commercial, environmental and social benefits.
  • To lead discovery, innovate and create partnership crossing the traditional boundary towards world sustainable development.

Selected recent research

The CEES research themes are...
  • Carbon Footprinting, Accounting and Management
  • Low Carbon Technology and Interventions Deployment
  • Sustainable Development
  • Climate Change, Environment, Resource Poverty, Security
  • Social Preparedness in Climate Change
  • Green IT and Digital Futures
  • Low Carbon Building
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Governance, Policy and Regulation for Energy and Low Carbon Futures
  • Low Carbon Supply Chain and Economy
  • Energy Supply Chain.
  • Eco-logistics

Find out more

CEES To learn more about the Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability please visit the Centre's website at http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cees