Environmental Stewardship

Environmental stewardship is an emergent topic that will benefit from sustained research building on the socio-legal tradition. While the focus of this working group lies in the area of socio-legal studies, faculty in the biological and physical sciences are key participants, since scientific information, science organizations, and scientific methods are essential elements in understanding environmental stewardship. The working group draws on UB's broad cadre of faculty and academic programs concerned with environmental affairs, including the 200 faculty affiliates of the Environment and Society Institute.

This working group brings together the range of disciplinary perspectives necessary to conduct effective research on environmental stewardship. By "environmental stewardship" we mean the complex of social institutions and practices that sustain the capacity of the natural environment to support life over the long term. Key dimensions of environmental stewardship include policies, laws, organizations, common patterns of behavior, and ways of measuring progress toward sustainability.

Director

Margaret Shannon University at Buffalo Law School
529 O'Brian Hal • Buffalo, NY 14260 phone: 716.645.5992

Events to be posted shortly

 

Baldy Center For Law & Social Policy
511 O'Brian Hall, University at Buffalo Law School
Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.2102