Middlebury College
ER-15: Sustainability Research Identification

Sustainability research is related to or focused on topics and questions that address aspects of how to live within the regenerative capacity of the earth to meet the needs of present life generations without compromising the ability of future life generations to meet their essential needs as well.

The sustainability research inventory was compiled using a variety of sources. After obtaining a complete list of faculty members, we acquired information about faculty members' research from their Middlebury faculty webpage. Many faculty members' webpages contained little or no information about their research, so we also used the faculty grants lists (http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/support/grants/facgrant) and lists of recent faculty publications and achievements compiled by the President's Office. After collecting all of the information we could from the aforementioned sources, we contact Environmental Studies affiliated faculty members for whom we still did not have research information to request a summary of their research. Once all of this information was compiled, the Director of Sustainability Integration (DSI), the Sustainability Communication and Outreach Coordinator (SCOC), and a student intern individually went through the list and categorized research as sustainability research or not. The DSI and the SCOC then compared the three sets of results and discussed any research that they had disagreed upon in order to reach an agreement. Faculty members for whom research information was not available were assumed not to do sustainability research.