About Us
The Center for Water as a Complex Environmental System (CWACES) is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Illinois in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences devoted to improving understanding of water related issues. The focus of CWACES is to provide cohesion to the array of scholarship involving water at the university through research, teaching, and outreach. CWACES provides a home for inquiry about water-based environmental issues that consider water as the central component of a system of interacting parts that includes human activities and physical processes. CWACES is devoted to encouraging the merger of the study of natural processes with the human dimensions of water issues.
CWACES developed through a joint effort between the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences, Geography, and Geology as part of a longer term initiative to develop a School of Earth, Society and Environment in LAS. As the school takes form, CWACES will become interwoven with the broader themes addressed in the context of the school.
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