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The Center for Sustainable Resource Development is located in the College of Natural Resources and brings together UC Berkeley's leading environmental and social scientists with other experts and stakeholders from industry, government, and environmental organizations to address complex resource-use issues such as global climate change, sustainable agriculture, water reliability, and population, poverty and the environment.

The mission of the Californian CESU is to provide research, technical assistance, and education across the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context in California and nationally as appropriate.

the Human Rights Center conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Our research focuses on war crimes, justice and postwar reconstruction, health and human rights, and globalization.

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 Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) is the locus of activity for a unique working community of Latin Americanist faculty, students and other research collaborators from the United States and Latin America. Through an extensive public program and opportunities for study and exchanges abroad, CLAS strives to increase understanding of Latin American peoples, cultures and politics, enhance the work of UC Berkeley’s Latin Americanist community and build bridges to other institutions, groups and individuals throughout the Americas.

The Center supports scholarly activities over a broad range of topics that address contemporary African issues. The Center provides opportunities for students majoring in traditionally defined fields to develop a comprehensive interdisciplinary program in African Studies. Areas of research include Natural Resources and Political Ecology.

A unique, interdisciplinary, campuswide program designed to help people in developing countries achieve health, reach a reasonable level of well-being, and stabilize populations. These objectives - while at the same time protecting the local, community, and global environments - are among the most compelling and complicated challenges facing the world community.

The mission of the Science, Technology, and Society Center (STSC) is to advance understanding of scientific and technological practice and knowledge in their local, national and international settings, coordinating and promoting scholarship, teaching, and outreach regarding their deep intertwinings in society.

The Center offers opportunities for advanced research and creative teaching initiatives and sponsors a wide range of programs designed for members of the academic community and for the general public. Building on a history of strong alliances with scholars in the social sciences and in the arts, the Center concentrates on the topics and methods that make the humanities vital and unique in the contemporary world.

The Mission of the Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering is to support research and teaching in the sciences and technology that are essential to understand and improve the environment. The Institute is multi-disciplinary and included not only a broad representation of the engineering disciplines but also a wide variety of other natural and social sciences. It plays an increasing role as a bridge between basic research, often associated with an academic environment, and the more applied studies necessary for sound environmental management. Thus, IESE focuses the expertise available throughout the University of California on environmental problems of current and future concern.