Environmental Science for Social Change

About us

ESSC is a Jesuit research and training institute that promotes environmental sustainability and social justice through the integration of scientific methodologies and social processes.

ESSC also contributes to building scientific capacity that engenders people’s commitment and integrity to see the changes emerge and develop, and enables a discernment of our life in the world with a deeper human spirit.

ESSC networks across the Asia Pacific region and globally in moving an agenda of science for sustainability, with more than 30 years of engagement in local, national, and international research and dialogue to contribute to an understanding and sustainability of community-based management through nurturing a “science for social change.”