Focusing on the social, political, cultural, and economic institutions and practices that shape human behavior, Arizona State University interdisciplinary teams help craft solutions targeted to the most pressing societal problems. Human activities are often at the heart of these problems and they are an integral part of their solution. ASU teams are developing new workable solutions to old social problems, including water shortages, social inequality, violence, the pervasiveness of poverty, and human impacts on the environment. Improved understanding through modeling and testing of the human and other factors that drive institutions and current practices allow ASU to eventually put forward practical ideas designed to bring about long-term solutions.
Solve Human Problems
American Indian Policy Institute
Department of Economics
Kyl Center for Water Policy
Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Morrison Institute for Public Policy
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
School of Politics and Global Studies
School of Public Affairs
School of Social Work
School of Transborder Studies
Seidman Research Institute
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Urban Climate Research Center
Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment
Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy
Center for Health Information and Research
Center for Law, Science and Innovation
Center for Organization Research and Design
Center for Policy Informatics
Center for Race and Democracy
Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Studies
Center for the Study of Economic Liberty
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
Center for Urban Innovation
Center on the Future of War
Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
McCain Institute for International Leadership
School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership