WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Events

School of Sustainability Sundowner
Join staff and students from the School of Sustainability to celebrate the successful completion of Semester 1 and the beginning of Semester 2!

4pm onwards, Friday 6th August 2010
Little Creatures, Fremantle
(upstairs in the main hall overlooking Fisherman’s Harbour)

Welcome to Second Semester- commences Monday 2 August

Of Interest...

What is the WA2020 Project? See the web page here! Stream or download Glenn Albrecht's lecture via this link.

See all the project ideas and requests for student help from organisations with projects via the "opportunities" tab.

Welcome

The Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) at Murdoch University was established in 1988 to foster critical understanding of the roles and effects of science and technology for the benefit of all sectors of society. The ISTP has always been dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative research to develop innovative solutions to a range of global, national and local sustainability challenges. An international research reputation was built mainly around the topics of sustainability, urbanization and cities.

After restructuring in 2008, the ISTP now sits within the School of Sustainability. With the appointment in early 2009 of the new Director, Professor Glenn Albrecht, the ISTP is re-focusing its research profile around key themes in ethics, politics, futures and policy that are aimed at creating a genuinely sustainable society. With powerful waves of interconnected economic, ecosystem, climatic and political change now running through a globalised human society, the challenge for research relevance has never been greater. The ISTP is now conducting competitively funded leading-edge research that will help create and maintain, at all scales, healthy, resilient and equitable human communities.