Sustainability, Society, and Environmental Geography examines the urgent challenges facing our world: climate change, resource scarcity, environmental justice, and building a livable future. If you've wondered whether green initiatives work, why some communities bear more environmental burdens than others, or how we balance economic development with environmental protection, and human rights, this major gives you tools to find answers.

This program explores the entanglement of environmental issues with economics and social justice—recognizing that "sustainable" solutions affect different communities in different ways. You'll learn to ask critical questions: Sustainable for whom? At what cost? Are we measuring the right things?

Drawing on geographic perspectives, you'll understand how these challenges vary across space—from neighborhoods to global systems. Unlike technical approaches to sustainability, this program grounds you in critical thinking, teaching you to interrogate underlying assumptions, question power structures, and understand how culture, history, and values shape possibilities for change.

You Might Like This Program If...

• You're concerned about climate change but skeptical of simple "green" solutions.
• You want to understand why sustainability efforts succeed or fail, and for whom.
• You're drawn to big questions about fairness, power, and the future rather than just technical fixes.
• You care about making real change but want to think critically about what "better" actually means.
• You're interested in careers where you can evaluate and improve sustainability work, not just accept it at face value.