Sustainable Futures Themes

Sustainable Futures is arranged around six interrelated themes – Nature, Equity, Materials, Resilience, Energy and Skills – each highlighting the core challenges of environmental sustainability and the corresponding areas of research excellence at the University of Manchester.

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  Energy

  Creating an inclusive, clean energy transformation at unprecedented speed and scale, through bold, collaborative innovation and pioneering academic endeavour.

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  Equity

  Delivering just and sustainable environmental futures that address existing inequities and enable communities to thrive. 

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  Materials

  Enabling the sustainable and innovative design, manufacture, use and circular recovery of materials to support a thriving, sustainable society. 

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  Nature

  Supporting transformative change in human–nature relationships toward just and sustainable coexistence that supports the restoration and recovery of nature.  

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  Resilience

  Providing sustainable frameworks for infrastructures and ecosystems at various scales against adverse, disruptive and long-term environmental change. 

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  Skills

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

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