Welcome to the Center for Southeast Asia Environment and Sustainable Development

The Center’s mission is to improve the understanding of complex environmental and development issues facing Southeast Asia by fostering multidisciplinary, international collaboration in research, education, and capacity building. The Center is a special initiative of the Research Foundation that complements the college’s ongoing work in China and advances SUNY’s mission of increased internationalization. 

The topical focus of the Center’s efforts is human impact on the environment, but we believe that it is essential to fully integrate social and economic perspectives within the scientific and engineering approaches to environmental problems with the goal of developing effective environmental planning and management solutions. To this end, we work with Southeast Asian universities, government agencies, NGOs, and the private sector in our initiatives.