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Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) CSDS

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Centre for Sustainable Development Studies

The Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) is a bottom-up, scholarly initiative furthering the cause of sustainability. Launched in 2015 by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), it gathers scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds and establishes connections with societal parties at multiple scale levels. CSDS frames sustainability as a process that addresses the urgent environmental issues of this time, while attending to problems of poverty, inequality and human indignity.
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Vision 

The Center for Sustainable Development Studies unites academics who focus on sustainability issues in their research and teaching across the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. It was founded in 2015 by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. The shared ambition is to contribute to a sustainable and socially just society through analyses of socio-behavioral patterns and collaborations with societal partners. While broad in academic disciplines and application fields, academics at the CSDS take a relational approach to sustainability and develop contextual knowledge across levels such as consumer-product, local-global, North-South, and nature-human. 

Mission 

The CSDS facilitates internal and external connections for academics in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. To develop community within the Faculty, promote connections, and share knowledge, CSDS organizes talks, workshops, and conferences, and provides grants and funding. Meaningful cooperation starts with getting to know each other. Externally, CSDS facilitates interactions with societal partners, supports outreach activities, collaborates on policy-relevant outputs, and organizes a bi-annual conference.