The Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering is one of the leading institutions in Italy for research in the disciplines of civil engineering, architecture and environment, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects and applications in areas of territorial sustainability. In this context the Department coordinates the International Joint Master degree on Sustainable Territorial Development – Climate Change, Cooperation, diversity with the plan to spread into the school of Engineering the dimension of Europe and the World. In cooperation with Andean University Simón Bolívar (UASB), Quito, Ecuador is managed the Joint program on “Climate Change Policies, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”. The Department hosts the Laboratory GIScience and Drones for Good (D4G) developing research support activities, applied research, participatory action research on the issues of GIScience and the use of geographic information technologies (GIS, web GIS, Unmanned Systems, etc.) in the sustainable management of the territory and of natural resources. At the department is based the long term research program on “Climate change, territories, diversity” with a special focus on Climate Justice in high bio-cultural diversity areas in the world.