Environmental Studies PhD Programs

Established in 1994, the Doctoral program in the Department of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) emphasizes close faculty-student interactions, department-wide intellectual exchange, and cross-discipline innovation. The goal of...

Our Environment and Sustainability Ph.D. equips students with diverse perspectives to develop profound new ideas, knowledge and answers to the most important concerns facing people and the planet. The Ph.D....

Concentrations

Unrelenting increase in demand for commodities and services from ecosystems raises questions of limits and sustainability. The rapid human modification of Earth’s ecosystems is signaled by the unprecedented decline of...

The sustainability of development presents some of the most important policy challenges concerning the future of our planet, and it requires an interdisciplinary approach involving the social, natural, engineering, and...

The Ph.D. in Sustainability Education degree program views education broadly – as social learning that occurs in settings that are both formal and non-formal environments. Education for sustainability, is the...

Concentrations

This concentration within the biology doctoral degree focuses on ways the life sciences shape and are shaped by society. In this interdisciplinary program, you’ll study the life sciences alongside economics,...