Sustainable and healthy communities

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Sustainable and healthy communities is a U.S.EPA research program. It is one of the six research program under the current research strategy (published June 2012).

The SHC program is designed to inform and empower community decision‐makers as they create and implement sustainability policies. SHC research provides decision support tools, models, and metrics that can be used to make these policies more efficient, balanced, and equitable.

Problem Statement: Communities make social, economic, and environmental trade-offs in a resource-constrained world. These trade-offs are often not well-characterized in terms of the implications for and interactions among human health, ecosystem services, economic vitality, and social equity. Conventional decision-making often does not adequately characterize these complex interactions.

Vision: The Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program (SHC) will inform and empower decision-makers in communities, as well as in federal, state and tribal community-driven programs, to effectively and equitably weigh and integrate human health, socio-economic, environmental, and ecological factors into their decisions in a way that fosters community sustainability.

See also

• Research Programs: Science for a Sustainable Future | Overview | Contacts
• Sustainable and healthy communities research program | A report
• EPA ORD (Office of Research and Development)

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