The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is dedicated to solving society's most challenging and complex environmental problems. We foster collaboration amongst scholars from a diverse array of the natural and social sciences (such as ecology, public health, and political science), as well as stakeholders that include resource managers, policy makers, and community members.
Socio-environmental synthesis is a research approach that accelerates the production of knowledge about the complex interactions between human and natural systems. It may result in new data products—particularly ones that address questions in new spatial or temporal contexts or scales—but may also involve evaluating textual or oral arguments, interpreting evidence, developing new applications or models, or identifying novel areas of study.
Communicating Results of Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research
How to Communicate Your Science | The 5 Key Steps
Succinct Science | Podcast Episode 7: What Is Environmental Sociology?
Network Modeling for Socio-Environmental Systems
A Dialogue on Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Co-Creation
America's Colonial Beginnings through the Lens of an Environmental Historian: A Cold Welcome
What Is Environmental History?
Background to: A Cold Welcome
Succinct Science | Podcast Episode 6: What Does Socio-Environmental Resilience Look Like?
Webinar: System Archetypes for Understanding and Solving Sustainability Problems
Succinct Science | Podcast Episode 5: Impact of Landowner Decisions on the Environment and All of Us
Selecting a Modeling Approach for Solving a Socio-Environmental Problem
Webinar: Participatory Modeling to Address Socio-Environmental Problems
Participatory Modeling: Reshape How You Collaborate
Succinct Science | Podcast Episode 4: Accounting for Human Behavior in Climate Models
Incorporating Behavior into Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
Webinar: Modeling Behavioral Change in Socio-Environmental Systems
Webinar: Uncertainty, Transparency, & Robustness in Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling
An example of a socio-environmental system in 3 minutes
Rethinking Urbanization in the 21st Century
Plants & Pests
Water & Governance
Wildfire & Salience
What Is Socio-Environmental Research? A Three Minute Summary
What Is Sociology?
Contemporary Sociological Theory, Part 3: Symbolic Interactionism – A Micro-Level Perspective
Studying Civil Societies and Social Movements Using Mixed Methods
Distinguishing Environmental Sociology and the Environmental State Approach
Environmental Sociology: the Early Years
Environment, Development and Globalization: Longitudinal Analysis in Sociological Research