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The Institute of International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus. The Institute focuses today on the following intellectual themes: Peace and global security in the 21st century, Environment, demography, and sustainability, Globalization, development, and human rights, and Technological change and and the transformation of the global economy.

The Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing (CGDM) was formed in 1993 to encourage multi- disciplinary research and education on environmental management, design for environment and pollution prevention issues in critical industries.

Environmental Planning online is a selection of web sites pertaining to environmental planning, supporting landscape architecture, environmental planning, and city planning programs at the University of California, Berkeley. The emphasis is on U.S. and California environmental planning.

The Center for Environmental Design Research is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California at Berkeley. Located in the College of Environmental Design, the Center assists the research of faculty, students, and others interested in the design and planning of the built environment. The Center's mission is to encourage research in environmental planning and design, in order to increase the factual content of design decisions and to promote systematic approaches to design decision-making. The scope of our research ranges from local human environments to regional ecosystems, from details of building construction to large-scale urban planning, and from the history of the built environment to the design process itself.

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society –CITRIS—creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental and healthcare problems. Faculty, students and industrial researchers are seeing solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from the environment and finding viable sustainable energy alternatives to healthcare delivery and developing secure electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, ultimately boosting economic productivity. CITRIS represents a bold and exciting vision that is leveraging one of the top university systems in the world with highly successful corporate partners and government resources.