Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) is accelerating solutions to the most complex climate and sustainability challenges of our time through interdisciplinary research, teaching and impact.
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) is accelerating solutions to the most complex climate and sustainability challenges of our time through interdisciplinary research, teaching and impact.
Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world
Today’s problems are complex and interconnected, and so are the solutions. Addressing the 21st century’s most pressing climate and sustainability challenges requires new levels of collaboration and action across disciplines, sectors, and scales of impact.
Through solutions-focused research and education enabled by deep partnerships across Brown and beyond, IBES aims to be an engine of real-world impact and a training ground for the next generation of changemakers building a just, sustainable world.
Grounded in a culture that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, nimble innovation, public engagement, and equitable outcomes, we seek to bolster knowledge-to-action pathways in Providence, across the nation, and around the world.
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Celebrating 10 Years
As IBES marks a decade of impact, we reflect on our journey, achievements, and vision for a bright future.
IBES is hiring
Associate Director of Administration & Finance
This role oversees finances, budgeting, faculty affairs, research administration, HR, facilities, and supervises some IBES staff and student workers.
Adjunct Lecturer
The candidate will teach an introductory environmental science course in the spring semester of 2026.
Featured event
Commencement Forum — The Climate Landscape in 2025: Legal and Policy Responses
The federal landscape of climate law and policy is shifting rapidly. Hear how experts in public interest law, academia, and government are navigating these changes on Saturday, May 24, during IBES' 2025 Commencement Forum with the Watson Institute.
IBES News
2024: A landmark year of impact for IBES
Celebrating its 10th year, IBES marked 2024 with groundbreaking achievements in its efforts to advance a just, sustainable future.
Climate conversations came to life at IBES this semester as thought leaders, students, and changemakers gathered to exchange ideas, share stories, and shape real-world solutions.
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Yajima explores how farming and development are reshaping toad breeding patterns, uncovering key insights into the broader impact on natural habitats.
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Four recently awarded working groups bring a new, interdisciplinary, and engaged approach to climate solutions.
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Harold Ward, the father of the environmental studies program at Brown, passed away on in December 2024 at the age of 89.
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News from Brown
Brown scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading scholars in science, public affairs, business, arts and the humanities.
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This Earth Day, Brown University’s associate provost for sustainability offers strategies to minimize carbon dioxide emissions and help mitigate climate change.
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Possibly Podcast
Looking at the science behind proposed solutions to environmental challenges, to help listeners cut through the noise and make choices that, possibly, will make a difference.
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