Our focus is on enhancing livelihoods, improving life choices and opportunities and supporting innovations that will improve the sustainability of communities in the face of current challenges. We do this by undertaking research and training in the areas of sustability and resilience. We work in the UK and overseas, principally in Africa and the Maghreb, and increasingly in South America. Through the sharing of ideas and experience CSRC seeks to inform policy, provide guidance for individuals, communities, institutions and governments, and generate evidence of the impact of our resrarch and related practical measures.

Aims:

• To build a strong and diverse resaerch portfolio that contributes to an increase in resilience of communities and supports a more sustainable use of human and natural resources.
• To develop and engage in UK and international collaborative partnerships with other leading academic institutions, multilateral agencies and NGO's working on sustainability and resilience issues.