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Center for Environmental Resource Management
CERM Research Thrust Areas
 

CERM sponsors and supports research that addresses the wide variety of environmental problems that threaten the health, safety, and economic well-being of the southwest border region of the United States and northern Mexico, including, but not limited to:

Air quality

Water: quality, treatment, availability, and resource management

Hazardous substances and waste: detection, characterization, containment, management and/or remediation

Energy: efficiency, conservation, technologies, renewables, alternatives, and policy

Environmental Health

Desert ecosystems

Environmental & resource policy

Environmental Justice