As outlined in the 2023-2028 Strategic Plan,  the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) is expanding and innovating across research, interdisciplinary scholarship, internal support structures, and the breadth of its partnerships.

Mission

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 and teaching. 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 diverse changemakers building a just, sustainable world.  

Vision

Grounded in an inclusive culture that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration in the pursuit of nimble innovation, public engagement, and equitable outcomes, we seek to bolster knowledge-to-action pathways in Providence, across the nation, and around the world. Rigorous training ensures that IBES students possess the solutions-oriented knowledge, skills, networks, and creativity they need to create a more just and sustainable future.

Values

• We believe in IBES as an agent of transformative change in addressing the most complex challenges of our time.
• We actively promote the exchange and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge and information.
• We celebrate the unique and essential contributions of every member of our community, and recognize a diverse set of values, lived experiences, cultural identities, and political ideologies as assets to our work.
• We value risk-taking and adaptive learning where failure is recognized as a part of learning and growth for individuals, programs, and the institute.
• We recognize the role that structural, systemic, and implicit bias play in shaping the experiences of many in our community, and work to combat bias in its many forms.