The School has contributed to the design of the Amazon Region Protected Areas program - which accounted for 37% of the decrease in deforestation in Brazil, ensuring protection of ~70 million hectares of tropical forest and its associated biodiversity and carbon stock.

The Managing resources and sustainable consumption theme is strongly linked to the international priorities of biodiversity loss, ecosystem services and sustainable consumption. The School operates three major centres which contribute to this theme: the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), the Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) group and the Environmental Biology Group.