Governance and Sustainable Development

Cluster Themes

The Governance and Sustainable Development research group offers expertise and supervisory capacity in the following areas:

• Environmental Policy
• Sustainable Development
• Risk and Regulation
• Community Politics and Rural Governance
• Alternative Development and Citizenship
• Participatory Development and Natural Resources
• Mobilities

Future Directions

Recent changes in research funding and graduate training have moved the organisation of research activities towards greater interdisciplinary collaboration. The School’s strengths in the thematic area of Governance and Sustainable Development will be further enhanced through more active collaboration with research partners in Ireland and abroad. Existing connections with environmental research institutes and political science and sociology departments involved in governance and sustainability research will be strengthened to take advantage of national and international funding opportunities.

The thematic grouping and clearly defined research specialisation are conducive to preparing large-scale funding applications (e.g. PRTLI, EPA, EU Framework Plans) and will attract interest from international students who wish to conduct PhD research in NUI, Galway. Future research across this thematic grouping will make a significant contribution to the production and dissemination of social scientific knowledge on political, social and cultural dimensions of sustainable develop¬ment and contribute to the critical debate on sustainability.

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