Land

Land encompasses sustainable land management practices to preserve ecosystems, enhance agricultural productivity, and mitigate environmental degradation. It includes efforts related to sustainable agriculture, soil conservation, combating pests, ensuring food security, managing forests, addressing heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, designing urban spaces for sustainability, and restoring natural habitats.

Subthemes

Agriculture – The cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for food and other resources, emphasizing sustainable and responsible practices.
Soil – The study of soil composition, health, and management, as it relates to agriculture and environmental conservation.
Pests/pathogens/diseases – Issues related to pests, diseases, and pathogens and their effects on agriculture, ecosystems, and human and animal health.
Food security – Ensuring that people have reliable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and preferences.
Forestry – The management and conservation of forests and the sustainable use of forest resources.
Heat/Drought/Wildfires – Issues related to extreme heat, prolonged drought, and wildfires, considering their environmental and societal impacts.
Urban design – The planning and arrangement of elements in urban areas to create functional, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable environments.
Habitat restoration – Activities aimed at bringing back or improving natural habitats, fostering biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Development Economics – Examines how climate change and environmental factors intersect with economic development, influencing the economic prospects of countries and regions.

Table of Climate Solutions Collaborative programs working on land issues.

CAP – Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership
CCS – Climate Change and Society
CDDL – Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
CEnREP – Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy
CGA – Center for Geospatial Analytics
CHHE – Center for Human Health and the Environment
CLP – KIETS Climate Leaders Program
CRSI – Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative
DSA – Data Science Academy
GGA – Genetics and Genomics Academy
GOHA – Global One Health Academy
ITRE – Institute for Transportation Research and Education
NC C-CAPE – North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment
NC PSI – North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative
NC SG – North Carolina Sea Grant
SCO – State Climate Office of North Carolina
SECASC – Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
SFI – Sustainable Futures InitiativeSO – Sustainability Office

Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership

The Carolinas Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) works together with communities across the Carolinas to help predict and understand their exposure and vulnerability to climate threats, such as drought, heat and flooding.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Food Security, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, Urban Design, and Development Economics

Climate Change & Society

The Climate Change & Society (CCS) program provides a bridge between knowledge and action and is designed to give students new skills and knowledge in climate change science and its implications for society to support the development of informed policy and business decisions for a more sustainable and resilient future.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Food Security, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, Urban Design, and Development Economics

Coastal Dynamics Design Lab

The Coastal Dynamics Design Lab (CDDL) seeks to couple designers with scientists and local stakeholders to create innovative, sustainable, adaptable, and resilient design solutions that address the environmental and human needs of coastal communities.

Subthemes: Urban Design and Habitat Restoration

Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy

The Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy (CEnREP) advances environmental solutions by providing leadership in research, outreach, and training of the next generation of environmental economists.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Forestry, Urban Design, Habitat Restoration, and Development Economics

Center for Geospatial Analytics

The Center for Geospatial Analytics pushes the boundaries of geospatial data science to make discoveries and get important work done. It works to apply geospatial analytics to a host of problems, all with a common purpose of advancing innovative solutions to grand societal challenges.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Soil, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Food Security, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, and Urban Design

Center for Human Health and the Environment

The Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) applies a systems biology approach, spanning biomolecules to human populations, to understand how environmental stressors impact human health. The goal is to uncover the underlying mechanisms of disease and use this knowledge to mitigate adverse health outcomes.

Subthemes: Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Forestry, and Heat/Drought/Wildfires

KIETS Climate Leaders Program

The KIETS Climate Leaders Program (CLP) is designed to build strong partnerships among students, faculty mentors, and internship hosts while working together to develop solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Soil, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Food Security, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, Urban Design, Habitat Restoration, and Development Economics

Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative

The Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (CRSI) seeks to leverage NC State’s interdisciplinary strengths to find actionable, innovative, and sustainable solutions necessary to inform the transformational choices we face in a changing climate.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Soil, Food Security, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, Urban Design, Habitat Restoration, and Development Economics

Data Science and AI Academy

The NC State Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) connects and supports interdisciplinary teams of researchers. They provide collaborative consulting, seed grants and proposal developments. They collaborate to develop new courses, badges, certificates and minors and allow articulation of our 1-credit project-based courses into degree programs. They also collaborate on outreach to K-12 teachers and students through Data Explorers and up-skill professionals through Data at Work.

Subtheme: Transformation

Genetics and Genomics Academy

The Genetics and Genomics Academy promotes and supports collaborations across all research, training, and outreach activities at NC State to forge a more interdisciplinary understanding of the genetic and genomic underpinnings of life on earth to sustain biodiversity and improve society and individual wellbeing.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Food Security, and Forestry

Global One Health Academy

The Global One Health Academy engages faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students in improving the health of plants, animals, biodiversity and human society in North Carolina and beyond.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, and Food Security

Institute for Transportation Research and Education

Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) focuses on making transportation safer, more equitable and more accessible for all through surface and air transportation research, technical services and workforce training.

Subthemes: Urban Design and Development Economics

North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment

NC C-CAPE will provide the necessary research to improve cyanobacteria and toxin monitoring; inform guideline values for the safe consumption of water and seafood; deliver predictive tools to assess emergent and future toxin exposure risk; and leverage community engagement initiatives to fill data gaps and protect ocean and human health.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Food Security, and Heat/Drought/Wildfires

NC Plant Sciences Initiative

In NC PSI, the brightest minds in academia, government and industry drive vital research that increases crop yields, creates new varieties, extends growing seasons, enhances agricultural and environmental sustainability, and produces new and improved technology.

Subtheme: Agriculture

North Carolina Sea Grant

North Carolina Sea Grant builds more resilient communities and economies, supports sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, promotes healthy coastal ecosystems, enhances environmental education, and fosters workforce development.

Subtheme: Development Economics

State Climate Office

The State Climate Office of North Carolina is a UNC System Public Service Center dedicated to serving the needs of North Carolinians by translating climate information into useful and usable knowledge, and bridging the gap between scientists, decision-makers, and community members.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Soil, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Forestry, and Heat/Drought/Wildfires

Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center

The Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (SE CASC) helps fish, wildlife, water, land, and people adapt to a changing climate.

Subthemes: Soil, Pests/Pathogens/Diseases, Forestry, Heat/Drought/Wildfires, Habitat Restoration, and Development Economics

Sustainable Futures Initiative

The Sustainable Futures Initiative (SFI) will seek to foster transformative research and on-campus application to provide forward-oriented solutions to our most pressing problems.

Subthemes: Agriculture, Food Security, Forestry, Urban Design, and Habitat Restoration

University Sustainability Office

The NC State University Sustainability Office serves as a centralized resource, fostering collaboration, initiating programs, providing education, and coordinating efforts to integrate sustainability into the university’s culture, while supporting and measuring ongoing sustainability initiatives.

Subtheme: Soil