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UNU-EHS :: About EHS
About the Institute
UNU-EHS explores problems and promotes solutions related to the environmental dimension of human security.
The institute's main research aims at academic excellence in:
- Vulnerability assessment, resilience analysis, risk management & adaptation strategies within linked human-environment systems; and
- Internal displacement and trans-boundary migration due to environmental push-factors.
Further influential topics are land degradation, desertification; natural hazard events; gradual man-made and natural environmental and climatic change and variability including water depletion and quality deterioration are considered. Preparedness, adaptation and response are the main dimensions along which human security can be strengthened.
UNU-EHS is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, both dedicated to promoting sustainable development and advancing human security.
United Nations University
The UNU has been established in 1973 to function as an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training and the dissemination of knowledge to tackle pressing problems of global importance.
Activities mainly focus on peace and conflict resolution, sustainable development and the use of science and technology to advance human welfare. UNU maintains a worldwide network of research and post-graduate training centres; its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan.
For more information: www.unu.edu