Running for the three year duration of the third phase of SDRN, the Engineering and Sustainable Development workstream will consider how engineers and natural and social scientists can work together to put sustainable development into practice.

Engineers have so far not been sufficiently involved in multi-disciplinary research on sustainable development, although engineering institutions have been developing their own approaches. This workstream will work with the Royal Academy of Engineering Academy and the professional engineering institutions to explore how to integrate these approaches with the understanding developed by natural and social scientists, in order to put sustainable development into practice.

The Engineering and Sustainable Development workstream is being led by the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) at the University of Surrey and will run until December 2009.

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