8 Sustainability PhD Degree Programs in North America

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.

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.

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.