Areas of expertise
All research activities in IESD are designed to make positive contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and are organised under two thematic areas:
Sustainable Energy Systems and Infrastructure
This research theme covers topics such as:
- Sustainable Energy Systems - technologies and optimisation
- Smart Grid paradigm through intelligent data analysis and heuristics
- Electricity market structures and mechanisms of trading, fit for a net-zero regime and for inclusive participation
- Low carbon transport infrastructure
Sustainable Communities
This research theme covers topics such as:
- Supporting sustainable living in communities
- Sustainable energy solutions for the base-of-the-pyramid population
- Complex interrelationships between all aspects of sustainability
- Wider socio-economic and environmental impacts around the world to support sustainable development
- Sustainable transport
- Sustainable buildings
- Resource use
- Behaviour change
- Education for sustainable Development
- Circular economy
- Challenges to and opportunities for just transitions
- Learning from transition practices
- Developmental discourse around community sustainability transitions
- Urban water management
- Modelling and analysis of water infrastructures;
- Resilience enhancement