Skip to navigation | Skip to main content | Skip to footer
The University of Manchester
Sustainable Futures
  • Home
  • Challenges
    • Resilient Futures
    • Resourceful Futures
    • Net Zero Futures
    • Healthy Futures
    • Inclusive and Prosperous Futures
    • Inspired and Informed Futures
  • Home
  • Challenges

    Challenge Areas

    • Resilient Futures
    • Resourceful Futures
    • Net Zero Futures
    • Healthy Futures
    • Inclusive and Prosperous Futures
    • Inspired and Informed Futures
  • Research

    Research

    • Case Studies
    • Institutes and Centres
    • Climate Questions
    • Sustainable Futures Spotlights
  • News
  • Events
  • Contact
  • About us

    About Us

    • Management Board
    • Meet the Team
plants growing in a lab
  • Home
  • Challenges
  • Home
  • Challenges
    • Resilient Futures
    • Resourceful Futures
    • Net Zero Futures
    • Healthy Futures
    • Inclusive and Prosperous Futures
    • Inspired and Informed Futures

Research Challenges

Sustainable Futures is arranged around a number of interconnected Challenge Areas

  • Healthy Futures

    Healthy Futures

    Managing risks to humans and ecosystems and realising the benefits of transitioning to an environmentally sustainable future.

    Read more

  • Net Zero Futures

    Delivering rapid emissions reductions and enhancing our ability to remove and store carbon.

    Read more

  • Inclusive and Prosperous Futures

    Inclusive and Prosperous Futures

    Delivering environmental sustainability through a just transition that enables communities to thrive.

    Read more

  • Inspired and Informed Futures

    Inspired and Informed Futures

    Inspiring students and communities to address sustainability challenges through knowledge and skills required to understand problems and create solutions.

    Read more

  • Resilient Futures

    Resilient Futures

    Fulfilling societal functions in the face of accumulating and disruptive environmental change at various scales, whilst ensuring our natural environments are protected, restored and sustained.

    Read more

  • Resourceful Futures

    Resourceful Futures

    Providing for human needs in ways that sustainably manage finite resources and recover value from rather than lose materials into the environment.

    Read more

Contact us

  • +44 (0) 161 306 6000
  • Contact details

Find us

Sustainable Futures
4.01 IT Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

Connect with us

  • Twitter page for Sustainable Futures
  • YouTube page for Sustainable Futures
  • LinkedIn page for Sustainable Futures

  • Disclaimer
  • Data Protection
  • Copyright notice
  • Accessibility
  • Freedom of information
  • Charitable status
  • Royal Charter Number: RC000797