Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.00
Liaison Cindy Shea
Submission Date Nov. 13, 2024

STARS v3.0

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AC-7: Center for Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.00 / 6.00 Melanie Elliott
Sustainability Analyst
Sustainable Carolina
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7.1 Organized sustainability research center, institute, or unit

Does the institution have at least one organized research center, institute, or equivalent unit that is focused on sustainability and/or integrated approaches to address sustainability challenges?:
Yes

List and description of the institution’s sustainability research units:

UNC Institute for the Environment

Collaborative approaches to manage decentralized socio-environmental systems: water partnerships to promote aquifer storage for equitable economic and environmental resilience.


Does the institution have at least one organized research center, institute, or equivalent unit focused on a subject other than sustainability that produces sustainability research?:
Yes

List and description of the institution’s research units focused on subjects other than sustainability that produce sustainability research:

Carolina Population Center : The resilience of food security to climate  shocks

Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention : Assessing disparities and determinants of inequities in access to the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Center for Natural Hazards Resilience : DHS Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence : Social equity in community disaster resilience.

 


The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:

Points earned for indicator AC 7.1:
6

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