INSTITUTE FOR
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Over the years we have served public and private sector needs through research, education, and consulting projects.
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ISD is a non-profit group devoted to concerns and issues about conservation and sustainable development of lands and their natural and cultural resources.
Over the years we have served public and private sector needs through research, education, and consulting projects. |
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CORPORATION DEDICATED TO RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ON SUSTAINABILITY ISD is a non-profit group devoted to concerns and issues of conservation and sustainable development of lands and their natural and cultural resources. Over the years we have served public and private sector needs through research, education, and consulting. Our services meet the highest professional standards and rely on interdisciplinary approaches to provide practical solutions for responsible resources management. ISD's scientists and consultants have extensive backgrounds in the natural and social sciences with field experience in the Western U.S., Hawai'i, and the Pacific Rim.
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We carry out our projects with thorough technical knowledge, skills and a philosophy of collaborative learning with international agencies, government agencies, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and community groups.
The Institute for Sustainable Development's main office is in the Thoreau Center for Sustainability at the Presidio of San Francisco. A field office for Hawai'i, Asia and the Pacific was established in Kailua, O'ahu in 1996. Since its founding in 1988, ISD has helped to develop policies, management strategies, assessment methods, and information systems for sustainable development in the public and private sectors. ISD's leaders have distinguished backgrounds in the interdisciplinary fields of conservation biology, ecosystem management, ecological economics, social resource management, environmental policy and law. ISD is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation supported by contracts, grants, and tax-deductible gifts.
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