In 2009–2010, in conjunction with the Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the
Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy
School, the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard
Divinity School presented a series of programs to explore several
dimensions of an ecology of human flourishing—economic, sociological,
religious, ethical, environmental, historical, literary; how notions of
human flourishing, quality of life, and common good have been
constructed; and in the contemporary world, how they are illuminated or
are challenged by issues of distributive justice, poverty and economic
inequality, global health, and environmental sustainability.