Objectives

• Be a leading resource for the development of next-generation environmental law and policy;
• Train future environmental leaders by encouraging innovative thinking and rigorous analysis;
• Identify pressing environmental problems and advance effective policies, strategies, and decisionmaking tools in response;
• Move the environmental debate beyond political and sectoral boundaries to enable integrated approaches to problem-solving;
• Identify scientific and technological advances that can ease uncertainty and respond to the complexity of environmental protection; and
• Seek a greater understanding of stakeholder attitudes, values, and behavior toward environmental policy choices and how these diverse perspectives affect policy outcomes.