14 Sustainability PhD Degree Programs

A practically based program that fosters innovation and creativity in solving real-world challenges within social, economic, technological, and business realms. In this inherently interdisciplinary program, you’ll become part of a network of academics from across RIT who are working to optimize sustainable systems and practices in engineering, manufacturing, energy, education, and more.

PhD in Human Rights, Global Politics and Sustainability: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives Embark on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary journey at the Ph.D. program in Human Rights, Global Politics, and Sustainability: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives.

Developed for professionals working to create a more sustainable future, PhD in Sustainability students will investigate the social, ecological, technical, and political dimensions of sustainable transformations, the relationship of science and society in advancing more sustainable futures, and novel and inclusive approaches to community-based problem solving and sustainable development.

The PhD in Management - Innovation, Sustainability, and Healthcare is a three-year training program leading to research activity in the public and private domains as well as managerial jobs in public and private organizations. The Ph.D. program aims, to train students for academic and managerial positions in both public and private organizations.

The programme, taught in English, allows for an in-depth look at the different factors that affect the competitiveness and sustainability of companies and territories, in order to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

This Doctor of Philosophy program in Sustainability Science and Technology is designed for students who want to research and develop solutions for real-world environmental challenges. The coursework a...

This Ph.D. program integrates environmental science, chemical engineering, and life sciences to tackle pressing global challenges—from climate change and pollution to sustainable resource management and development.

The PhD program aims to explore the essence, impact, and challenges of research related to the transformation of the territory, landscape, the built environment, and, more generally, the system of material and immaterial artifacts, combining the consolidated approaches of design disciplines with the experimentation of innovative, sustainable, and inclusive strategies, processes, and tools.

The Sustainability PhD program is designed to prepare students for advanced research and leadership roles focused on addressing complex environmental, social, and economic challenges. The program emph...

The PhD program in Sustainability is designed to prepare students for advanced research and leadership roles addressing complex environmental, economic, and social challenges. The program emphasizes i...

The PhD program in Sustainability with a focus on Complex Adaptive Systems Science at ASU offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing societal and ecological challenges. Stude...

The Ph.D. program in Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability is designed to cultivate leaders capable of addressing complex societal and environmental challenges through innovat...

Intercultural Open University Foundation (IOUF) aspires to create an academic environment grounded in interdisciplinary intellectual discovery and guided by rational discourse.

Cultivating and processing animal feed contributes a disproportionate share of the resource and environmental impacts of livestock production. Social license for the livestock sector will also likely be increasingly predicated on its ability to reduce direct competition for arable land and human-edible feed resources. This four year, funded Ph.D. project will answer this challenge by (1) identifying and mapping the availability of alternative feed resources for the poultry industry in Canada, including (for example), single-cell proteins from forest industry residues, insects meals, and food waste-to-feed products; (2) undertaking detailed environmental life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessments of each feed resource pathway, and (3) assessing their potential for contributing to sustainable poultry production based on a combination of environmental, economic, and nutritional objectives and constraints.