Message from Director

Dessalegn Wirtu Tasso (PhD, Associate professor of public Health)

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The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. Based on the above premises, Wallaga University established Center for the Studies of Environment and Society at director level in 2007 (currently renamed as Center for the Studies of Environment and Natural Resources/CSENR) with the objectives of organizing and undertaking research activities related to environment and natural Resource Management   comprising seven unites under it: However,  health and Nutrition and education units have no researcher and currently only five units are functional .