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Sustainability means balanced growth that creates opportunity for all.

The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLAGC) brings together world-class researchers and community stakeholders to facilitate interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented, and societally relevant sustainability research.

To achieve truly sustainable outcomes, solutions to pressing societal challenges must take into account environment, equity, and economy. Solutions that skew too far in pursuit of any one of these three foundational areas necessarily do so at the expense of the others, risking mid- and long-term failure.

Core Initiatives & Programs

Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative (CWRI)

Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP)

Partnering with LADWP for a Sustainable Los Angeles

Read more about what we do and our approach.

SLAGC:

  • supports the development of knowledge and research agendas responsive to societal needs, and that enable environmental policy and regulatory change.
  • catalyzes interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaboration, discovery, and knowledge brokering between UCLA’s research centers and external stakeholders, while coordinating external support for these collaborations.
  • trains the next generation of critical thinkers and solutions-oriented researchers.

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Highlights

CWRI Convenes Working Group on Vegetation + Fire

CWRI Brings Together Experts on Health + Fire

SLAGC Faculty to Lead IoES